The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Edward Snowden Declares "Mission Accomplished," Reflects on NSA Revelations
“I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
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Beyond the NSA: Other Agencies Spy on You, Too
The Surveillance State Repeal Act would rescind the PATRIOT Act entirely, as well as the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, restoring rights that have been constitutionally violated by the FBI among other agencies.
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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
As an assistant district attorney, I found myself prosecuting people of color for things white kids did with impunity.
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Italian Protester Charged With Sexual Assault For Kissing Riot Police
Nina De Chiffre kissed an Italian police officer last month during a protest of a high speed rail line in Turin. It was, according to the police officer, sexual assault.
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
A new portrait emerges of Snowden as a principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee at the NSA Hawaii Kunia facility, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet
But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.
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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police
“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”
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Anonymous Issues Warning of Shutdown to Federal Reserve Page on #D23
"We are not fooled. We know that there is nothing federal and that there are no reserves. The masses are waking, and we are rising. We have learned of all the atrocities that lie within central banking."
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U.S. Officials Will No Longer Provide Information on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
A spokesman for the U.S. military announced that the authorities will no longer provide public information on how many prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are participating in hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention.
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Exposed: Illegal Weaponry, Torture Equipment, Proliferate U.K.-Sponsored Arms Fair
Activists and investigative researchers have revealed that arms dealers were selling weapons and equipment banned under international law. Those in violation were ejected, but no legal action was taken.
