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A Good Name Dragged Down: Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist
Submitted by TheTower on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 6:00pm.
One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car, only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the suspect.
14 day old baby dies in DHS custody
Submitted by TheTower on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 6:43pm.
Bush orders Pentagon to blow spy satellite out of the sky
Submitted by TheTower on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 3:21pm.
WASHINGTON - President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite — and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel — by intercepting it just before it re-enters the atmosphere, officials said Thursday.
HARV gives soldiers a robot's-eye view
Submitted by TheTower on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:11pm.
While battlefield robots are certainly plenty capable with their current control systems, the folks at Chatten Associates seem to think they can do things one better, and they're now touting their so-called HARV (Head-Aimed Remote Viewer) system as a potential alternative.
Thought Crime Proposal Passed House, On To Senate
Submitted by TheTower on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 1:30pm.
Intel Chief Says We Need To Redefine "Privacy"
Submitted by TheTower on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 5:34pm.
As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.
Geopolitics of Drugs: CIA's Air America Still Flying With Tons Of Cocaine Aboard
Submitted by TheTower on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 1:48pm.
Before President Bush proposed giving the Mexican government more than a billion dollars in aid to fight the war on drugs last week…We noticed a strange phenomenon. Either it’s a series of coincidences, Or it’s evidence of serious corruption…
Congress Poised to Strip 2nd Amendment Rights
Submitted by TheTower on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 12:37pm.
H.R.2640 has passed the house and is slated to enter the Senate under a unanimous consent agreement to limit debate and, in effect steamroll the passage of a bill that will serve to strip 2nd Amendment liberties away from citizens diagnosed with mental illnesses.
YOU Have Offended the Camera Surveillance Morality Monkey
Submitted by TheTower on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 10:26am.
Former Abu Ghraib director has most serious charges dropped
Submitted by TheTower on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 1:57pm.
A military judge on Monday dismissed two of the most serious charges against the only officer charged with abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison after an investigator acknowledged he failed to read the defendant his rights.
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