The intelligence establishment’s dream supercomputer will make Raytheon’s RIOT program seem like child’s play

Los Angeles PD got a cell phone sniffer for “Terrorism” but used it in drug cases

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Interesting revelations from the OWS FBI files

There’s so much redacted in the recently released FBI files on Occupy Wall Street (OWS) that it’s often hard to know exactly what you’re looking at. There are nonetheless plenty of interesting revelations tucked inside the 112 page PDF file posted by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. 

Wikileaks releases more Global Intelligence Files; some highlights

Wikileaks has released another batch of emails from the private intelligence company Stratfor. Among them are some interesting bits of information, including:

How to resist the federalization and militarization of your local police

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Terror Tuesday: The nerve center of the ‘disposition matrix’

Whoever wins the presidential election will command not just a military with a bigger budget than the militaries of the next ten nations combined, but a ‘homeland security’ surveillance state which we taxpayers have paid nearly $700 billion to construct.

Threatening tweets, “secret” drone wars, costly surveillance state expansion and more

Terror Tuesday: Beware RomneySpeak and the new normal

Will the White House still have the equivalent of “Terror Tuesday” sessions to discuss drone “kill lists” if Mitt Romney moves in next January?

We don’t know if he would, like President Obama, personally want to doom particular individuals by signing off on hit lists. But after last night’s debate, we do know that he is a big fan of the drone strike program.

Keeping the national security industrial complex afloat: the great terrorism boondoggle

Today, the ACLU of Massachusetts launched its report about the spying on lawful protest activity by the Boston Police and the agents attached to its fusion center, one of those domestic surveillance hubs set up in the aftermath of 9/11 to share “terrorism-related” information.

Money for nothing: the drug war and the war on Muslims