World-News

A day after we learned of a draining turf battle between the NSA and other law enforcement agencies over bulk surveillance data, it now appears that those same agencies are working together to cover up when those data get shared.

http://is.gd/xrdLZ0



The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership

Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones.

http://is.gd/MuqOIc


From Information Clearing House

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I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Those who run the new surveillance state have not the slightest hesitation about sacrificing Americans on the altar of their plans.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18000-i-only-regret-that-i-have-but-one-life-to-give-for-my-country-yours



You Are, In Fact, Being Watched

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'The national security apparatus is, in fact, being deployed against American citizens, and for the specific purpose of putting American citizens in prison.'

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18022-you-are-in-fact-being-watched

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We cannot lose this fight: Defeat the NSA

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/05/13

The Snowden revelations have confirmed that, if anything, the warnings by libertarians and others radically understated the problem and the imminence of the danger to the Constitution. For our warnings were nearly always expressed in the future tense, as a dire possibility should present trends continue. The exposure of the NSA s vast spying apparatus, constructed, 'legalized,' and maintained in secret by the US government, has shown that the danger is now...

http://tinyurl.com/le76klf



Give it power and government will abuse it

QandO
by Bruce McQuain

08/05/13

Seems odd, to me, that we have to point this out every now and then. The naive trust some people have in government always perplexes me. It speaks to an ignorance of both human nature and history that is simply profound. Our latest example? Well, right here from the good old US of A, land of the free, home of the brave...and the DEA...

http://www.qando.net/?p=15500


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Land+of+the+Free
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+government
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Drug+Enforcement+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=enforcement
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ignoran
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+citizen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=surveillance
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=phone+records
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Snowden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bruce+McQuain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Rivers+Pitt
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