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6/4/2011 Overlooking Oversight
In late May, Congress extended three enhanced surveillance powers that were granted to the government after the 9/11 attacks — two in the Patriot Act and one from a related intelligence law. In doing so, lawmakers neatly managed to avoid any lapse in those powers. They failed miserably in their duty to carefully re-examine the provisions, trim back excesses, and add safeguards to protect civil liberties. In other words, they ignored the whole point of requiring that the provisions be periodically reviewed. One of the renewed provisions permits a roving wiretap on terrorism suspects who switch phone numbers or providers. While this is a useful tool, the lax rules for specifying who is the subject of the wiretap could invite abuse. Another provision permits the government to examine library, bookstore and business records without having to show that the material is related to a terrorism investigation. (New York Times)
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posted: 6/16/11                   0       7
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10/30/2010 High alert in U.S. after suspicious package found in UK
Two packages found abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States contained a massive amount of explosive material that would have triggered a powerful blast, a source close to the investigation has told CNN. U.S. officials believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, commonly referred to as AQAP, is behind the plot. President Barack Obama confirmed that the packages -- intercepted in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates -- originated in Yemen, the stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (CNN)
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posted: 10/29/10                   0       24
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8/3/2010 Senate Deducts Brownie Points for Devil's Food Dopers
Don't get baked on baked goods. That's the warning the Senate sent last week when it voted to toughen penalties for those who peddle pot brownies to minors -- a decision that drew gasps from drug policy reform advocates who were, momentarily, elated over a new law that drastically reduces the disparity between prison sentences for crack and cocaine offenses. President Obama on Tuesday signed the law overhauling mandatory sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Crack users, who are mostly black, for the past quarter-century have faced far tougher sentencing guidelines than cocaine users -- under the prior law, a suspect would need to be found carrying 500 grams of cocaine to face a five-year sentence; a crack user had to be caught with just 5 grams to get the same sentence. While the move was hailed by some drug policy groups, the pot brownie bill tempered their excitement. "It's a black eye on the Senate. It's a mark of shame," said Aaron Houston, director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. (FOX)
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posted: 8/22/10                   0       6
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2/3/2010 More Al Qaeda Attacks This Year? Top intelligence officials predict that a possible Al Qaeda terror attack in the next three to six months on U.S. soil is a serious concern (CBS)
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2/2/2010 DNI & CIA Chief Predict Terrorist Attack In Next 6 Months (FOX)
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posted: 2/23/10      
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2/2/2010 Intel chief: Al-Qaida likely to attempt attack
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said with changes made since the Dec. 25 attack, U.S. intelligence would he able to identify and stop someone like the Detroit bomber before he got on the plane. But he warned a more careful and skilled would-be terrorist might not be detected. (Comcast)
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posted: 2/23/10                   0       11
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1/7/2010 National security adviser: Airline bomber report to 'shock'
Jones said the remedies involve "tweaks" rather than the overhaul that followed the Sept. 11 attacks— for instance, hiring for intelligence agencies so analysts aren't overwhelmed by their workload. (USA Today)
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posted: 1/25/10                   0       13
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8/19/2009 C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help to Kill Jihadists
The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials (New York Times)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       17
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6/22/2009 The Secret History
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?

Panetta had become an advocate for secrecy so quickly, a White House official joked, that "it's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'" (The New Yorker)
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posted: 6/15/09                   3       32
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6/17/2009 Feinstein denies NSA abuses; Holder refuses to call them ‘illegal’
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee came to the defense of the National Security Agency today, saying that the federal agency didn’t commit flagrant abuses in its program to intercept American’s phone calls and emails — but stopped short of denying that the agency had overstepped its bounds or broken the law (The Raw Story)
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posted: 6/18/09                   5       15
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5/8/2009 CIA Says It Briefed Congressional Leaders
document appears to conflict with recent statements from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Wall Street Journal)
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posted: 5/11/09                   4       26
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4/18/2009 Dems put assault weapons ban on back burner
The last time a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress banned civilian sales of some types of military-style assault weapons, it took American voters barely seven weeks to hand Republicans control of Capitol Hill for the first time in 40 years (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/11/09                   1       18
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2/2/2009 Barack Obama grants CIA permission to retain right to carry out renditions (London Times)
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posted: 5/21/09                   5       25
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1/7/2009 An Awful Pick
Obama Opts To Politicize Intelligence

Earth to President-elect Obama: Intelligence is serious (New York Post)
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posted: 5/27/09                   2       26
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1/7/2009 Barack Obama's new CIA boss signals end of waterboarding and rendition
Barack Obama has broken with the controversial intelligence practices of George Bush by appointing a former White House official with no relevant experience to lead the CIA (London Telegraph)
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posted: 5/21/09                   3       24
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6/6/2008 Obama, Clinton Ditch Press for Secret Meeting
Another Prominent Clinton Backer Calls for So-Called 'Dream Ticket' Unity

In a rare joint statement Thursday night, the two Democrats said only, "Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met tonight and had a productive discussion about the important work that needs to be done to succeed in November." (ABC)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       4
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3/24/2007 Globalists Gather in Brussels
When the TC called on the United States to increase gas taxes by 10 cents at a meeting in Tokyo in 1991, The Washington Post, which is always represented at TC and Bilderberg meetings, called for such an increase in an editorial the following day (American Free Press)
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posted: 5/19/09                   4       31
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2/23/2005 ID Theft Victims Could Lose Twice
Legal experts say that people who suffered losses as a result of the breach will find it difficult to get compensation from ChoicePoint for selling their personal data to con artists, even if the victims can prove that ChoicePoint was negligent in screening customers who purchased their data (Wired)
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posted: 6/15/09                   4       22
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5/1/2004 Guantanamo Bay
Camp X-Ray

With the opening of Camp Delta, Camp X-ray was closed on April 29, 2002. 300 detainees previously held at Camp X-Ray were transferred to Camp Delta on April 28, 2002 (Global Security)
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posted: 6/8/09                   3       23
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