Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists By TransCanada
Documents show that TransCanada, owner of the hotly contested Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for "terrorism" charges.
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NSA Spying Extends to Contents of U.S. Phone Calls
The National Security Agency disclosed in a secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls, e-mail and text messages.
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NSA Leak Revives Ethical Questions on Private Security Contractors
The Edward Snowden affair exposes the role of using contractors in intelligent work.
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The FBI Raids Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed Steubenville Rape Case
Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old corporate cyber-security consultant, says his home was raided by the FBI after he publicized information about the Steubenville rape case.
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Revealed: Antiwar.com Sues FBI For Years of Targeted Surveillance
The website’s founders maintain that their site is a legitimate expression of free speech and that they have been unjustly targeted for observation by the FBI.
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
When they should have been investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s extremist ties in 2011, Homeland Security and the Boston Police were busy collecting information on peaceful antiwar activists from Code PINK and Veterans for Peace.
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Privacy or Security: Do We Only Get To Pick One?
After the Boston Marathon bombing, 61 percent of Americans said they were more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that would restrict their civil liberties.
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Institutionalized Spying On Americans, a History
Big Brother is no longer fiction. It’s official U.S. policy, as manufactured national security threats have come to matter more than fundamental freedoms.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Security Letters
Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
