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Obama Deports Record Number of Immigrants, Using Scary Private GEO Group to Get the Job Done
The largest deportation prison in the U.S. is a former jail in the hyper-corrupt City of Adelanto, California, where public officials are often criminals.
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New NYPD Chief Defends Stop-and-Frisk—Despite Being Stopped and Frisked
Philip Banks, who was promoted to the department's top uniformed position this week, supports the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk policy.
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FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as Top Priority for 2013
The FBI says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top priority” this year.
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Out of One Gram of Marijuana, a ‘Manufactured Misdemeanor’
The NYPD routinely gins up fake marijuana charges that jail New York City's black youth.
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The CIA Tries to Collect Your Data and Hang on to it Forever
The Agency's Chief Technology Officer wants all your text messages, tweets, and videos. Yes, yours.
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Reported Plans Surface For CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon
The CIA is reportedly planning on handing the controversial drone program over to the Pentagon.
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Techtivist Report: Beware the Spy in Spam
Pope Francis had barely donned his new white robes before cybercriminals were targeting his flock with spam emails and social media posts in a bid to suck money out of their bank accounts.
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Genocide Trial Opens for Guatemala's Ex-Leader
The trial of General Efrain Rios Montt, 86, the former U.S.-backed de facto president of Guatemala, has begun, spotlighting the killing of 1,800 indigenous people during his country's civil war.
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Dying Iraq War Vet’s Message to "War Criminals" Bush and Cheney
Tomas Young, paralyzed in a war he signed up for at age 22, writes of his fury at the "war criminals" who sent him there.
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Revealed: The Lyndon Johnson Tapes and the Costs of War
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls allow us to hear his private conversations as the Democratic Party tore itself apart over the question of Vietnam.