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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Spies At School: F.B.I. "Puppet" Program Would Train Students To Identify Extremism
The agency has delayed the launch of its counterradicalization website amid an uproar from Muslim activists and civil rights groups, who say the program will institutionalize discriminatory profiling of Muslim youths.
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Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent
While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress is a victory for civil liberties advocates, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.
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The FBI Violated Its Own Rules While Spying On Keystone XL Opponents
Internal documents reveal that the agency failed to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened files on individuals protesting against the construction of the pipeline in Texas.
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Democracy On Trial: From Boston to London, Surveillance Is Now the Status Quo
Have people become accustomed to the idea that a spy center established to monitor and catch terrorists is keeping records of the perfectly legal political activities of a wide variety of organizers and groups?
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Recent Crimes of the FBI: Is Agency America's Greatest Threat to Domestic Freedoms?
The agency is not only guilty of withholding information, but also of entrapment and the outright creation of so-called terrorists.
