No-fly list strands man in on island in Hawaii
[Quote]: “It’s scary to know that something like this can happen in a free country. You’re not accused of any crime. You haven’t been contacted by anyone. No investigation has been done. No due process...
View ArticleCops badly burn sleeping 12-year-old girl with stun grenade in SWAT raid
[Quote]: Billings Police Chief Rich St. John, who said that Tuesday’s pre-dawn raid on the house was part of “an ongoing narcotics investigation” told the Missoulian that typically the grenades are...
View ArticlePentagon Hacker McKinnon Wins 10-Year Extradition Battle
[Quote]: Accused British hacker Gary McKinnon has won his 10-year battle to resist extradition to the U.S. on charges that he hacked Pentagon computers in the U.S. U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May...
View ArticleWashington Post: Yes, We Need To Give Up Liberty For Security
[Quote]: from the oh-really-now? dept By now you’ve probably seen the paraphrase of a Ben Franklin quote that those who give up liberty for security, deserve neither (he said similar things a few...
View ArticleInformant: NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims
[Quote]: NEW YORK (AP) — A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping...
View ArticleWell, Search Me!
[Quote]: “That search was absolutely useless.” I said. “And just shows how much of all of this is security theatre. You guys are just feeling up passengers for no good effect, which means that you get...
View ArticleCops to Congress: We need logs of Americans’ text messages
[Quote]: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a...
View ArticleMexican Drug Smugglers Are Launching Pot Into The U.S. With A Huge Pneumatic...
[Quote]: When we last checked in on the DIY innovations of Mexican cartel drug smugglers, we found them lobbing four-pound bales of marijuana over the Mexico-Arizona border with a trailer-mounted...
View ArticleLEAKED: White House’s Bogus Talking Points On Why Senate Should Trample The...
[Quote]: Want to know the White House’s key propaganda lines for refusing to allow proper oversight into how the NSA is spying on us all? Well, sit back and read on, because the White House’s “talking...
View ArticleHello Kitty Bubble Gun Controversy
[Quote]: MOUNT CARMEL — The family of a kindergarten student in Northumberland County is thinking about filing a lawsuit after their five-year-old was suspended from school. The family’s attorney says...
View ArticleTransit police left a bomb on a plane for two days after training their dogs,...
[Quote]: Transit police who were training bomb-sniffing dogs left a bomb on a commercial plane at Vancouver International Airport and didn’t tell anyone about it for two days. The mishap was revealed...
View ArticleCourt Again Says It’s Okay For The Feds To Snoop Through Your Digital Info...
[Quote]: You may recall that in its quixotic attempt to go after Wikileaks, the US government has been snooping through the private communications of a bunch of folks they’re trying to connect to the...
View ArticleJustice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
[Quote]: A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an...
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DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border
[Quote]: The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined...
View ArticleUS Air Force veteran, finally allowed to fly into US, is now banned from...
[Quote]: “It is not as if the FBI actually thinks Saadiq is a threat. If it did – and it had actual evidence – the FBI would simply arrest him. As they surely recall, they let him fly just a few months...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Not Searching Your Laptop Doesn’t Benefit Your Civil...
[Quote]: from the interesting-4th-amendment-interpretation dept We’ve written many times over the years concerning the legality of Homeland Security searching your laptop at the border without...
View ArticleStudy: Packing heat increases odds of being shot in assault
[Quote]: The US gun-control debate may have both sides shooting their mouths off, gunning for each other, going off half-cocked, and [insert tiresome idiom here], but a group of biostatisticians and...
View ArticleSchools locked down over “ambiguous message” taken as threat
[Quote]: eaver County schools had their lives “flipped, turned upside down” Thursday morning when a phone greeting involving the theme song from the 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” was taken...
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