Showing posts with label Homeland Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homeland Security. Show all posts
Steve Chapman: Is the Terrorism Panic Finally Passing?
A return to sanity. One lesson of American history is that in times of war or crisis, American presidents, lawmakers and citizens often lose their minds. Another lesson is that they eventually regain their senses. When it comes to national security in the age of terrorism, it looks as though the national fever has broken. When Congress passed the Patriot Act in October 2001, it gave the federal government greater ... MORE
Police State Plan To Deploy A Vehicle-Tracking Database
from National Motorists Association. We predicted it would happen. A year after the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) scuttled plans to build its own nationwide database of
vehicle license plate data, the agency is seeking bids from private contractors to provide the agency access to the same information. DHS canceled last year’s plan ... MORE
Patriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties
by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauser. Maybe NSA will just ignore the law again. After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support has gathered to sharply limit the federal government’s sweeps of phone and Internet records. ... MORE
TSA'S Secret Behavior Checklist To Spot Terrorists
by Jana Winter and Cora Currier. Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture, two points. These are just a few of the suspicious signs that the Transportation
Security Administration directs its officers to look out for — and score
— in airport travelers, according to a confidential TSA ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: The Wolf Is Guarding The Hen House
The government’s war on cyberterrorism. Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore. This is the new normal in America today. A process which started shortly after 9/11 has grown into a full-fledged campaign of warrantless surveillance, electronic tracking and data mining, carried out by federal agents who have been given carte blanche access to the vast majority of electronic communications in America. Their methods completely undermine constitution safeguards, and yet no federal agency, president, court or legislature has stepped up to halt this assault on our rights.
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Ron Paul: Dept of Homeland Security, What is it Good For?
Get rid of TSA and FEMA. Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to certain illegal immigrants to the Homeland Security funding bill. ... MORE
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corruption,
FEMA,
government,
Homeland Security,
individual liberty,
search and seizure,
TSA
Fed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now
by Dustin Volz. A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to ... MORE
Police State America: TSA To Arrest Any Citizen Charged With Any Crime Trying To Come Or Leave The Country
Including taxes. The border is closing rapidly. First it was FATCA hunting Americans with
any assets overseas whatsoever. Now just two days after taking charge
of the committee chairing the House Homeland Security subcommittee
hearing, U.S. Rep. John Katko introduced two bills. He is looking to
effectively close the borders using terrorism as ... MORE
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airport,
arrest,
crime,
government,
Homeland Security,
police state,
prosecute,
terrorism,
TSA
The Patriot Act Is Cannibalizing America’s Economic Edge
by Amit Patel. You would think that when tech companies, the ACLU and the
NRA unite for the same cause, the federal government would listen. That
was not the case in this year’s USA FREEDOM ACT vote where the Senate voted against reforms that would stop the NSA from collecting phone metadata. The majority opinion prioritized protectionism ... MORE
How Bush & Obama Turned America Into Police State
Government takes full advantage of 9-11. Rodney Martin, a former congressional staffer, says that former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have transformed the US into a police state following the 9/11 attacks. Martin made the remarks when asked about a report that showed a number of decisions made by American ... MORE
Matt Welch: Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye
Politicians destroy right to confidential banking. It started, as so many bad things do, with Richard Nixon. In 1970, in the midst of a national panic over crime and illegal drugs, the man whose presidency would later become synonymous with official criminality signed the Bank Secrecy Act, which compelled all U.S. financial institutions ... MORE
Homeland Security Loses Track Of 6,000 Foreigners
by Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk. But they have your e-mails. The Department of Homeland Security
has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the
United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and
essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to
be fixed after the Sept. 11, ... MORE
'If You Don’t Want To Get Shot...Just Do What I Tell You.'
J.C. Tucille. To be owned by the man. "If you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground," warns Officer Sunil Dutta of the Los Angeles Police Department, "just do what I tell you." The thing is, Officer Dutta (pictured) is also an Adjunct Professor of Homeland Security and Criminal Justice at ... MORE
Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Devereaux. The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion
of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that
requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to
designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key
government document obtained ... MORE
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