This week in out of control SWAT culture: storming a school bus and an organic farm

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Officials in Rossford, Ohio staged a fake hijacking of a public school bus, without informing the children riding it about the drill. Surprise! Those masked gunmen who just stormed your school bus are actually here to protect you!

Special covert setting enables high-level officers to hide license plate tracking from beat cops

Secret Service documents show Cambridge police participated in 2011 political interrogation of Aaron Swartz associate

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Pipe Snake drone will crawl through the sewer into your bathroom

Booz Allen, former Snowden employer, to receive DHS contract for government network security operations

The Attorney General, sentencing reform, and what went wrong with Edward Alemany

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This guest blog is by Andrea Lance 

President Obama appoints top spy who lied to congress to lead review of surveillance programs

Military contractor CACI seeks payment from Abu Ghraib prisoners who sued over torture allegations

A photograph from Abu Ghraib prison, where American military officials tortured Iraqis. A now-dismissed lawsuit alleged private contractors took part in abuses.

Former Wyden staffer alarmed by officials’ ‘repeated insinuation’ that NSA critics don’t care about national security

Bloomberg loves video surveillance, but not when it monitors the police

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(Start the above video at 54:30 to see Bloomberg and Kelly speak; they were about an hour late.)