President Barack Obama on Friday nominated James Comey, a former Justice Department official who helped oversee national surveillance programs under President George W. Bush, as the director of the FBI.
It has been reported that U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former Justice Department official James Comey to lead the FBI , replacing Robert S. Mueller III as the director.
If the Senate confirms his nomination, Comey would replace Robert Mueller…
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Yes, the NSA is trying to pull a Snow-Job on the American people over Edward Snowden.
It’s time for the NSA to start coming clean and stop their misinformation/deflection ops to neutralize the disclosures of Edward Snowden who turns out to be a stand up man and another American Hero.
The flimsy efforts of the NSA to cover up their misbehavior are a disgrace to America and show a total lack of respect for the American People. Yes, but what else is new?
As soon as…
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Sometimes, despite laws to the contrary, the FBI just doesn’t have time to obey protections set forth by the U.S. Constitution.
While much of the news coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s Congressional hearing this week focused on his admission that the FBI has used drones domestically, there were some other points raised, including his “defense” of the broad surveillance techniques that appears to amount to the idea that it just takes too long to obey the Constitution and…
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Rolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIA
The revelation that Rolling
Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had cRolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIAontacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered incr
easingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated.
Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood…
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Texas litters beach with spy cameras
State moves to monitor beach goers
Julie Wilson
Infowars.com
June 20, 2013
Following the highly publicized NSA scandal, this shouldn’t come as a shock, but still the shock factor remains.
An Infowars.com reader sent in the photographs below showing intrusive high-tech cameras on a South Texas beach owned by the South Padre National Seashore. Upon entrance of the beach, cameras began flashing, taking pictures of…
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day? The government is likely logging even the most mundane day-to-day computer habits of millions of Americans, but there’s a way to stand up against surveillance while also rocking out.
According to leaked NSA documents published by The Guardian last week, the United States National Security Agency is conducting dragnet surveillance of the communications of Americans, regularly receiving phone records for millions of Verizon customers…
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NSA leaker Edward Snowden, answering questions Monday in a live blog on his revelations about the top-secret agency, denied charges he was spying for China and vowed to release more details on the NSA's "direct access" to the tech companies' servers
"Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped," Snowden said, according to The Guardian, which held the "live chat" on its website.
He said the U.S. government "is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering…
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A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children’s biometric information being culled without their parents’ permission, TheLedger.com reported.
In May, parents of students in the Polk County School District received a letter stating a pilot program would track bus riders using each child’s iris.
Parents could opt out, but by the time they learned about the program, the company charged with gathering the information had…
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Recently my child experienced firsthand the kind of victim disarmament indoctrination America’s public school system is teaching our children.
Melissa Melton
The school went on lockdown mode without even bothering to inform me, her parent, and while it turned out to be nothing at all, the impression left on my child that day will not soon be forgotten.
In 2005, a federal court upheld that our nation’s public schools trump parent rights:
Parents and…
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HONG KONG - In a show of protest against U.S. surveillance programs and in support of whistle-blower Edward Snowden, several hundred people marched Saturday to the U.S. Consulate General and the offices of the Hong Kong government despite drizzly weather.
"I think it's not acceptable for the (National Security Agency) to spy" on everyone, said Patrick Cheung, who has been upset by claims former NSA contractor Snowden made about the agency's data gathering from U.S.-based Internet…
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Loretta Sanchez
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Loretta Sanchez
A House Democrat said information revealed about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs are "the tip of the iceberg," Daniel Strauss of The Hill reports.
"I think it's just broader than most people even realize, and I think that's, in one way, what astounded most of us, too," Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) told C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" after a classified briefing with national security…
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The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government. We must be alert to the … danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farewell Address
January 17, 1961
In 2011, when we noted that Everything You Do Is Monitored, we weren’t embellishing or fear mongering.
This is as real as…
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A proposed law on the verge of approval by the Belgium parliament would allow children to decide for themselves whether they should be euthanized (“killed”) by medical personnel. Currently, Belgian law limits euthanasia to persons 18 and older, but with the rise of autistic children thanks to biopesticides, GMOs and vaccines, nations are increasingly trying to figure out what to do with all these children who have been permanently damaged by the medical and biotech industries.
The…
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In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer genes which the company says no one else can research or even detect without paying it a royalty. Click here to read the complete ruling.
"Myriad did not create anything," said Justice Clarence Thomas. "To be sure, it found…
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Added by jim on June 13, 2013 at 5:05pm —
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The National Security Agency contractor who came forward claiming to be the source of leaks about vast government surveillance programs set off diplomatic intrigue Monday by holing up in Hong Kong and hinting at seeking protection in Iceland.
The reporter who broke the story for the British newspaper The Guardian said that he did not believe American authorities had been in touch with the contractor, Edward Snowden, 29.
“I don’t believe they know where he is or how to…
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Added by jim on June 12, 2013 at 9:52pm —
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Ron Paul fears NSA leaker assassination
June 12, 2013
As the hunt continues for Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who outed himself last weekend as the source of top-secret leaks about U.S. surveillance program, some people have concerns about his fate.
"I'm worried about, somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile," said Ron Paul a former Texas congressman who twice ran for the Republican presidential nomination, in…
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an inspiring group of artists -- including Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, Christoph Waltz, Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman -- are taking a bold stand alongside members of the Global Zero movement just like you in a powerful new video calling for a world without nuclear weapons:
there is one thing that scares me more than anything its Nuclear weapons.
most people think a nuclear bomb is the only thing to fear NOT TRUE. A nuclear reactor will do just as much damage if…
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