Homeland Security
Expanding Security State
By affinis – Corrente – 05/06/2013
A few days ago, I noticed this piece at FDL: “’Homeland Security’ Spending Overtakes New Deal“
Criminal Government
By Sheldon Richman | FFF | May 3, 2013
“A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that ‘it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture’ and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.”
May Day Keeps Militarized Police in the News; ACLU Looking Into Cops and Homeland Security
Reports from May 1 protests around the US, particularly in Seattle, may look disturbingly familiar to anyone worried about police militarization.
Homeland Security under investigation for massive ammo buys
RT | April 30, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security is under investigation for purchasing large stockpiles of ammunition, days before legislation was introduced that would restrict the amount a government agency can legally buy.
The Government Accountability Office is now conducting the investigation into the alleged DHS purchases, which is “just getting underway,” GAO spokesman Chuck Young told US News & World Report.
The Inevitability of Drones in the US and Abroad
Drones are the weapon of choice for fighting undeclared wars all over the Middle East. Surveillance drones are on the cusp of becoming that for U.S. government and law enforcement officials as they continue their efforts to observe everyone as much as and as often as possible.
Spy, or pay up: FBI-backed bill would fine US firms for refusing wiretaps
RT | April 29, 2013
A US government task force is drafting FBI-backed legislation that would penalize companies like Google and Facebook for refusing to comply with wiretap orders, media report.
In the new legislation being drafted by US law enforcement officials, refusal to cooperate with the FBI could cost a tech company tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources as saying.
Bombs at the Boston Marathon: Bomb sniffing dogs present pre-race.
Round and round it goes. Where it will stop? Nobody knows?This post has more updated info. Scroll down. Thanks European official: Boston Marathon attacks unlikely the work of suicide bombers