Can the right expensive technology keep us safe?

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Video the FBI does not want you to see

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The woman who made this video is a Texas activist who received two FBI agents at her door. The agents inquired about her lawful protest activity. Watch how she handles the interview.

When we are all suspects

Hello all you potential terrorists! 

That’s how American citizens and anyone else in the country with any kind of data footprint are regarded these days, thanks to new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) which the Obama Administration endorsed last March.

Terror Tuesday: When the US captures instead of kills

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John Yoo, author of the Bush Administration’s legal memos authorizing torture, is right about one thing: when it comes to Obama’s counterterrorism policies, “the ironies abound.”

“First Amendment, Meet Paramilitary Police”

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The Alyona Show looks at the flood of homeland security funding to states and cities for the purchase of military grade surveillance and crowd control weapons in the post-9/11 age, and the deployment of these tools to interfere with social and political protest from New York City to Anaheim, CA. 

NSA has “20 trillion” records of US communications, says whistleblower

_{Above: ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer, author Jim Bamford, ACLU attorney Alexander Abdo, and NSA whistleblower Bill Binney at DefCon 20 in Las Vegas, July 2012.}

This is what stop and frisk looks like

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Vermont activists receive FBI visit

Rogue NYPD hunkers down in New Jersey “safe house”

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“Our media consume us, and spit in the government’s cup.”

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