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The Department of Defense and police in the area around the Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, NY appear to have implemented a novel method of stifling anti-drone war dissent.
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Terrorism or just plain old advocacy? Image credit.
Wikileaks has released another batch of emails from the private intelligence company Stratfor. Among them are some interesting bits of information, including:
When the mighty fall on their own sword, let the lesson be that no one is immune from the violations that result from the degradation of the rule of law.
On this Election Day 2012 let us pause to remember what the national security landscape was like four years ago in the months before Barack Obama was elected president.
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Hurricane Sandy. Image: NASA.
Remember that Senate subcommittee for investigations report on fusion centers? The one that said that they produce "a bunch of crap," waste our money, duplicate anti-terrorism efforts and invade our privacy?
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Utterly absent from the national debate surrounding the presidential elections yesterday was any mention of the ongoing and worsening federal attacks on our personal privacy.
An amazing thing is happening in Minneapolis.
Back in August 2012, a local reporter filed public records requests to the Minneapolis PD for license plate data the department captured on a number of high profile people, including the Mayor. The newspaper published 41 data hits it held on the Mayor's city car -- it even mapped them online (see below). (You can click on each hit to see the time and date for each capture.)