Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Related - WATCH: Glenn Beck Announces ‘Whistleblower’ Revelation That Will ‘Take Down Pretty Much The Whole Power Structure’ Of The United States
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Hollywood Reporter: – Director Oliver Stone brought thunderous applause to a crowd of more than 500 festivalgoers at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival in China on Monday when he praised whistleblower Edward Snowden as a "hero." In response to a passionately worded indictment from an audience member accusing the U.S. National Security ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON POST The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver’s-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations. The facial databases have grown rapidly in recent years ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BUZZFEED Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I’ve said, and I continue to believe is that we don’t have to sacrifice our freedom in order to achieve security. That’s a false choice. That doesn’t mean that there are not tradeoffs involved in any given program, in any given action that we take. ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The Department of Homeland Security on Monday issued new regulations that will allow more Syrian refugees to temporarily settle in the United States. The department estimates that about 9,000 people will be eligible to come to America under the 18-month extension to March 2015 of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrians. Another ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Government investigators are reviewing 375 cases of "unauthorized disclosures" by members of the various intelligence agencies, according to a top secret report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG). The semi-annual report to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says the inspector general's office also had nine separate ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The vast majority of Americans oppose President Obama's decision to arm the Syrian opposition, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. Twenty percent of respondents favored having the United States and its allies arm the rebels, with 70 percent opposed. Those opposed said the U.S. military was already “overcommitted” (68 ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: John Nagl, a retired Army officer and a research professor at the United States Naval Academy appeared on This Week in Defense News to discuss the importance of counterinsurgency to the future of American military operations. “I think that the character of warfare in our modern age is changing. The ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Just days after CBS News confirmed that reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer had indeed been hacked, Attkisson spoke to Dom Giordano about the investigation. “This suspicious activity has been going on for quite some time – both on my CBS computer and my personal computer,” Attkisson said. “CBS then hired its own independent cyber ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Unionized local employees repeatedly harassed and intimidated non-union workers of a private disaster cleanup firm that won a government contract to restore Long Island, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The vice president of the union even made threats against the wife and kids of one of the workers. ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted From The Guardian: Edward Snowden Q and A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history is answering your questions about the NSA surveillance revelations – follow it live now, click here to participate
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Defcon Hill: NSA leaker Edward Snowden said Monday that the United States can’t cover up its NSA surveillance activities by “by jailing or murdering me.” “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped,” Snowden wrote in a Q&A posted on The Guardian website Monday morning. ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona state law that requires people registering to vote in federal elections to show proof of citizenship. In a 7-2 vote, the court said the voter registration provision of the 2004 state law, known as Proposition 200, was trumped by a federal law, the 1993 ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Applications of pro-Israel groups for tax-exempt status are routinely routed to an antiterrorism unit within the Internal Revenue Service for additional screening, according to the testimony of a Cincinnati-based IRS agent. Asked whether Jewish or pro-Israel applications are treated differently from other applications, Gary Muthert told House Oversight Committee investigators that they ...
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Excerpted from POLITICO Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides ...
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Related: IRS Fires First Employee For Targeting Conservatives – DC Manager Holly Paz Excerpted from AP — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action. Holly Paz, who ...
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