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Patriot Act

LAPD Widens Spying with Drones and Body Cams
Newly leaked documents published by The Intercept expose just how easy it is for the FBI to spy on journalists using so-called National Security Letters (NSLs). The classified rules, which…
This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter. It was…
According to CounterPunch editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: “The desire for secrecy is one of Mrs. Clinton’s enduring and damaging traits…Befitting a Midwestern Methodist with…
According to Counterpunch (2007) editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: “The desire for secrecy is one of Mrs. Clinton’s enduring and damaging traits…Befitting a Midwestern Methodist…
Shelter from the Storm and, The FBI and Civil Liberties
One of the sad but important consequences for our system of government, in the face of such a process, is that not only do the…
He’s trailing an openly misogynistic troll doll in the polls, but Jeb Bush has outdone his opponents in the “slavish praise for the government’s surveillance…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a global corporate noose around U.S. local, state, and national sovereignty – narrowly passed a major procedural hurdle in the…
Now that Jeb Bush has officially announced his intention to run for president in 2016, the most corporate-funded presidential election in history is set to…
Two years ago this month, a 29-year-old government contractor named Edward Snowden became the Daniel Ellsberg of his generation, delivering to journalists a tranche of…
The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security…