Snowden on NBC: I can’t come home but at least I can sleep at night
Boston “fusion center” kept records about the political activity of (now Mayor) Marty Walsh
Image: MartyWalsh.org
Among the thousands of pages of Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) documents released to the Partnership for Civil Justice Funds detailing fusion center monitoring of Occupy protesters is this gem (page 623):
A modest proposal: Stop spying on dissidents and invest “homeland security” money in climate change response
Flooding in Massachusetts during Hurricane Sandy. Image: The Birkes.
Documents show Boston’s “antiterrorism” fusion center obsessively documented Occupy Boston
The remains of the Occupy Boston camp at Dewey Square, after the final police raid.
No, Massachusetts state law does not require people to carry identification
Yikes.
MIT made a whopping misstatement of law when its Commencement page erroneously said: "Visitors to Massachusetts should be advised that state law requires adults in public places to carry government-issued photo ID."
The university fixed the error when a concerned alum objected. Thankfully, we don’t (yet) live in a Stasi-state where government officials can demand "your papers please." No thanks to MIT.
New policy on FBI recordngs likely won’t affect Muslims and dissidents
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Rep. Katherine Clark: USA FREEDOM weakened, doesn’t stop bulk collection
Here's a statement from Massachusetts congresswoman Katherine Clark, who had originally signed on as a co-sponsor of the USA FREEDOM Act, back when it meant meaningful NSA reform.
