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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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America's Kangaroo Justice: Welcome to The Post-Constitutional Era
Our corporate masters, unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they're igniting – and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama is a signpost on the road to dystopia.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Can Utah Shut Down the NSA Data Fusion Center By Turning Off the Water?
The Fourth Amendment Protection Act would prohibit state material support, participation or assistance to any federal agency that collects electronic data or metadata without a search warrant.
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12 States and Counting: Vermont Legislation Is Latest to Take on NSA Spying
The Green Mountain State last week introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, which would prohibit any state support of the National Security Agency.
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Cutting Off the NSA's Juice
For the NSA’s top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big Brother nourished is essential — and any interference with that flow is unthinkable.
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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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Taking the Fight for Electronic Privacy to the Streets
On Oct. 26, a bipartisan coalition will stage the nation's biggest domestic protest against mass surveillance as thousands march on Capitol Hill to demand the right to private communication.
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Hedges: The Origins of Our Police State
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state, as cops arrest 13 million people a year while carrying out random searches with no probable cause.
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Revealed: Spying Scandal Engulfs Other U.S. Agencies
Former prosecutor Patrick Nightingale says he and his colleagues may have been unwitting pawns in the federal government’s effort to deceive defendants and the court system, thereby violating citizens’ constitutional rights.
