May First installs video camera, captures FBI operation to replace seized server

The politics of leaks and manufacturing public opinion

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Clips like those in the video above are all over YouTube; they depict US drones, fighter jets and Navy ships firing weapons at real live human beings and blowing them up.

OPD is now live-streaming protests on a closed feed

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The public information officer in the video above says the feed is closed to the public, but the tape is surely available via public records law. Why not live?

DEA apologizes for locking up young man and forgetting about him

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What happens when the Drug Enforcement Agency gets the wrong guy? It leaves him in a jail cell for four days without access to food, water or a rest room. 

Drones coming to US airspace…for what?

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Tasers: unregulated, painful and potentially deadly

Students protest the tasing of a fellow student by UCLA police in Noember 2006.

A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, who are we fighting, and why?

In his lengthy April 30^th defense of US drone warfare as “legal, ethical and wise,”  President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan attempted to answer this question.

OPD and Blackwater: snatch and grabs, tanks and tear gas

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Brennan on Fox News: drone war done “in full cooperation with our partners internationally”

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Yesterday top counterterrorism advisor John Brennan told Fox News that the Obama administration was pursuing the covert drone war in "full cooperation" with US partners internationally.

Brennan’s remarks and the ACLU’s response

Today the President's top counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, gave a speech on the US drone war -- a campaign the United States has been quietly waging for years now but has thus far refused to talk about very much in public.