Oct 13, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) stands as one of the most important transparency mechanisms in American democracy, granting citizens the ability to request and obtain records about government operations. While the law includes limited exemptions allowing...
Oct 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions. Since October 1, students at...
Oct 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, WAR: By Design
The Government’s Bid to Classify Detainees’ Own Experiences In 2012, the U.S. government sought to prevent the defendants in the 9/11 military commission trial from publicly describing their own experiences in CIA custody. A newly unsealed motion proposed...
Oct 4, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda
Senate Investigation Exposes Massive Waste at DHS Fusion Centers A damning 107-page report released by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that the Department of Homeland Security spent an estimated $289 million to $1.4 billion on regional...
Oct 3, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
In October 2012, a federal appeals court extended a temporary stay against a district court ruling that had blocked the government from enforcing a controversial indefinite detention provision contained in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2011. Appeals...
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism, News
In September 2012, the Obama administration launched an aggressive legal counterattack against a federal court ruling that struck down one of the most controversial provisions in recent American legislative history: the indefinite military detention clause of the 2011...
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secret Service Relocated Student Protesters Away From Biden Event During a 2012 visit by Vice President Joe Biden to Wright State University in Ohio, Secret Service agents directed a group of protesting students to move away from the event area not once but twice,...
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism
Smartphones can be a cop’s best friend. They are packed with private information like emails, text messages, photos, and calling history. Unsurprisingly, law enforcement agencies now routinely seize and search phones. This occurs at traffic stops, during raids...
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda, Video
While we in the civil liberties community disagree strongly with private investigator Steven Rambam’s admonition to “Get Over It,” after listening to him describe electronic surveillance powers it’s hard to disagree with the first part of the...
Sep 21, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Globalist Corporations
Book Description Publication Date: May 12, 2009 For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer...
Sep 15, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Obama Administration Fought to Preserve Indefinite Detention Powers In September 2012, the Obama White House waged an aggressive legal battle to reinstate one of the most contentious provisions in modern American law — a clause that officials acknowledged could...
Sep 5, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Pentagon General Directed Manning’s Solitary Confinement Leaked emails uncovered during pretrial proceedings revealed that the decision to subject PFC Bradley Manning to prolonged solitary confinement was not made by Quantico brig officials, prison...
Sep 5, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Leaks, News
Leaked Stratfor Email Exposes FBI Concerns Over NYPD Surveillance Among the roughly five million internal emails that the hacktivist collective Anonymous extracted from the servers of Stratfor — a private intelligence firm headquartered in Austin, Texas — one...
Aug 23, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secret Database Used to Screen Out Union Members and Activists More than 3,200 workers in the United Kingdom were placed on a covert blacklist maintained by an organization called The Consulting Association. The database, which was used by over 40 leading employers to...
Aug 17, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
In August 2012, former U.S. Marine Brandon Raub was detained by a combined team of FBI agents, Secret Service personnel, and local police at his Virginia home. He was transported to John Randolph Mental Hospital without being charged with a crime. The stated basis for...
Aug 14, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
What Was FinFisher and Why Did It Matter FinFisher was a powerful commercial surveillance tool developed by UK-based Gamma Group, capable of covertly monitoring virtually every aspect of a target’s digital life. The software could intercept Skype calls, activate...
Aug 14, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda
The surveillance state is no longer a theoretical concern. Google itself began issuing warnings that government-sponsored operatives might be monitoring user accounts. Some analysts connected these alerts to the discovery of an extraordinarily sophisticated...
Aug 7, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
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Aug 6, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Taboo Terminology
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Aug 6, 2012 | Abuses of Power
The Fundraising Machine That Runs Washington A deeply revealing investigation by the teams at This American Life and Planet Money pulled back the curtain on how political money actually flows through Congress — and the picture it painted was far uglier than most...
Jul 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
In a shocking display of heavy-handed enforcement, 65-year-old James Stewart — the well-known founder of Rawesome Foods and a prominent figure in the raw milk movement — was violently confronted near his residence by three armed individuals operating unmarked luxury...
Jul 15, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Information technology has created an unprecedented collision between two forces that seem harmless in isolation but deeply troubling when combined: the digital world of children and the pervasive availability of sexual content. For roughly two decades, this...
Jul 13, 2012 | Abuses of Power
The FBI Anti-Piracy Warning Seal: A Brief History of Intimidation Theater The FBI’s anti-piracy warning seal has been a fixture of purchased media for years. Under a special pilot program, the bureau allowed major industry groups including the RIAA, MPAA, BSA,...
Jul 12, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
UK Law Criminalizes Failure to Surrender Encryption Keys Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the United Kingdom made it a criminal offense to fail to produce encryption keys when demanded by authorities. The law, specifically Section 53 of the act,...
Jul 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Authoritarian regimes have clung to human civilization throughout the centuries, vanishing only to resurface and devastate generation after generation. Most observers assume these oppressive systems arise from bureaucratic chaos, fueled by unchecked greed and the...
