How low must the number of Muslim-American 'terror plots' go before Congress thinks again about giving the FBI an annual $3 billion of our tax dollars –nearly half the FBI’s budget - just for its counterterrorism work?
And to what lengths is the FBI prepared to go to manufacture plots and suspects in order to keep those dollars flowing?
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The FBI wants police officers to use social media to spy on us, but cautions that they take care not to reveal too much about their own lives on Twitter or Facebook.
The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer joined Democracy Now's Amy Goodman to discuss the targeted killing White Paper that was leaked to NBC news in February 2013.
As Jaffer observes, the paper is a "briefing document; it is not a legal memo....The actual memos are still secret," despite the ACLU's litigation to try to free them, he says.
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The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights are suing the US government over the extrajudicial killing of 16 year old US citizen Abdulrahman al Aulaqi in Yemen on October 14, 2011. The government has resisted all efforts to gain some insight into the official legal justification for the killing program.
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