Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
FCC Chair Appears To Be Hellbent On Internet Takeover
by Andrew Johnson. Two prominent House committee chairs are “deeply disappointed” in Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for refusing to testify before Congress as “the future of the Internet is at stake.” Wheeler’s refusal to go before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday comes on the eve of the FCC’s vote on ... MOREPeter Schroeder: Yellen Strongly Opposes Audit Of The Fed
Keeping us peons in the dark. Janet Yellen made a lengthy case Tuesday against legislation to “Audit the Fed.” Yellen
argued that legislation offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would make
the Fed less effective and, as a result, harm the U.S. economy as well. “I
want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed,’”
she ... MOREKen Silva: The Government's War On Freedom Of The Press
Transparency in the crosshairs. The U.S. plummeted to a dismal 49th place on the Reporters
Without Borders annual Press Freedom Index,
marking the country’s second lowest ranking since the list was
created in 2002 and its lowest since 2006. Other countries ranked
in the 40s and 50s include Haiti, Mongolia, and Chile. The index cited “judicial ... MOREStepen Dinan: White House That Promised Transparency Refuses To Cooperate With The Congressional IRS Probe
How to behave when the truth is not on your side. The White House told Congress
last week it refused to dig into its computers for emails that could
shed light on what kinds of private taxpayer information the IRS shares with President Obama’s top aides, assuring Congress that the IRS will address the issue — eventually. The tax agency has ... MOREIt Is Now A Felony for Illinois Citizens To Record Cops
by Matt Agorist. Government cockroaches prefer darkness to light. In March of this year the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state’s eavesdropping law, and rightfully so, as it was touted as the most unconstitutional law of its kind in the country. But Illinois, being the the corrupt and violent police state that it is, couldn’t let their ... MOREHow The NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
by Ryan Gallagher. In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. For the NSA, the task was easy. ... MOREDemocrats Move Gun Confiscation Underground
by Katie Kieffer. Fear of sunlight and guns is leading Democrats to turn nocturnal. Bats, mice, skunks and other nocturnal creatures are most active between sunset and sunrise. Nocturnal creatures do not “choose” to avoid sunlight anymore than fish “choose” to avoid dry land; it is instinctual, healthy and normal for nocturnal creatures to work ... MOREMatt 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
More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
by Eric Lichtblau and Willilam M. Arkin. The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show. At the Supreme Court, ... MOREFederal Agencies Just Doing Whatever They Want Now
by Lucy Steigerwald. On October 26, The
New York Times published an article on the close ties between
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and ex-Nazis after World War II. This
wasn’t news, except for the fact that there were more Nazis poached by the CIA
and other intelligence services, then brought to the US, and protected from ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Water Vigilantes In California
Nobody likes a tattletale, but snitching comes naturally to a certain kind of busybody. The remarkable drought in California has produced a new category of righteous snitches called “water vigilantes.” They prowl through neighborhoods with smartphones, creeping through the shrubs and bushes in the dead of night looking for working sprinklers ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying, Lying And Torture
The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MOREThis Independence Day, America Again Has a Monarch
by Andrew Napolitano. After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or serious ... MORE
No Magic Strong Enough To Make IRS E-mails Vanish
by Adriana Cohen. Another federal fairy tale. In a highly suspect news dump, the IRS announced days ago that years
of critical emails that took place between disgraced former IRS official
Lois Lerner and key players in government tied to the IRS targeting
scandal have “magically” disappeared. Even Democrats aren’t buying it. Everyone
knows ... MOREThe Government Wants You Ignorant Of Cops Tracking You
by Trevor Timm. Thought the NSA was bad? All across America, from Florida to Colorado and back again, the country's increasingly militarized local police forces are using a secretive technology to vacuum up cellphone data from entire neighborhoods – including from people inside their own homes – almost always without a warrant. This ... MORE
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