Fake ID a life-saver at fake checkpoints

07-11-2006 • KRQE

The trade in bogus identification cards is booming since Sunnis and Shiites alike try to hide their heritage behind a different surname and protect themselves from sectarian assault.

Bar employees arrested for videotaping secret alcohol police

07-11-2006 • KOBTV.com

Three employees of a downtown Albuquerque bar have been arrested for videotaping special investigations officers who were administering breath tests to pedestrians Saturday. Now, the three men are considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against the

JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press (Video)

07-11-2006 • You Tube

You get shot when you say stuff like this.

It's a kite. It's a model airplane. It's ... the sheriff!

7-11-2006 • Christian Science Monitor

It looks like a model plane, and sounds nearly silent. It costs $30,000, and could pay for itself in its first hour of use. Law-enforcement officials in Los Angeles County, who police 10.5 million people - say it is the future of policing in Ameri

FBI plans new Net-tapping push

07-07-2006 • By Declan McCullagh

The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned.

Bush Admin asks domestic spying suit dropped for "national security"

7-10-2006 • Reuters

The Bush administration asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, arguing that defending the 4-year-old wiretapping program would risk national security.

US judge to rule on legality of warrantless wiretaps

7-10-2006 • AFP

A federal judge heard arguments in a suit arguing that US President George W. Bush overstepped his authority when he authorized the use of warrantless wiretaps on Americans.

Ally Warned Bush on Keeping Spying From Congress

7-9-2006 • NY Times

In a sharply worded letter to President Bush, an important Congressional ally charged that the administration violated the law by failing to inform Congress of some secret intelligence programs and risked losing Republican support on national securit

Fox News wants Media Censorship by the Federal Government (Video)

07-08-2006 • Media Matters

Fox News' Fox & Friends, suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship,". (VIDEO)

Western Union Blocks Arab Cash Transfers

7-6-2006 • AP

Money transfer agencies have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed, company officials said.

Parental Rights versus Government power; Gov't. wins every time

7-7-2006 • AP

To her defenders, Tina Carlsen was a concerned mother exploring natural alternatives to surgery for her 9-month-old infant. To the state, she was a kidnapper who prompted an Amber Alert and an order restricting contact with her toddler until after he

Tax dollars to fund study on restricting public data

7-7-2006 • USA Today

The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests. Beginning this month, St. Mary's Univers

Air Force domestically spies on Blogs

7-4--2006 • AF Office of Scientific Research Public Affairs

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. Blog research may provide information analysts and warfighters with invaluable help in fighting the war on terrorism. Dr. Brian

Musician sues over flag law arrest

7-4-2006 • DesMoines Register

An Ottumwa rock musician whose protest against the city led to charges of flag desecration has challenged the 106-year-old law in federal court. Scott Wayne Roe, 40, has a hearing Thursday in Wapello County court on the flag-desecration charge. He

Bikers Defy Officials, Rally in Calif. on Independence Day

7-2-2006 • AP

Thousands of bikers roared into the town made famous by Marlon Brando's 1953 film "The Wild One", defying a city council decision to cancel one of the country's most celebrated motorcycle rallies. The bikers cruised Hollister

Hippie Group Founder Urges Suit vs. Feds

7-2-2006 • AP

A founding member of a hippie movement called the Rainbow Family suggested Saturday that it launch a federal lawsuit against a growing crackdown on their annual gatherings. Barry Adams, known in the Rainbow Family as Barry Plunker, told a council

NSA sought phone records before 9/11

07-03-2006 • Bloomberg

The US NSA asked AT&T inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before th Sept. 11, 20001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&

Schwarzenegger Orders Release of Reports After Sanitized

7-3-2006 • AP

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the release of intelligence reports prepared for the state Office of Homeland Security, a move administration officials say will quell complaints that California engaged in widespread monitoring of political pro

Police Raid Camera Seized With Pitt-Jolie Photos

7-2-2006 • AP

Police in this western Massachusetts town say they have seized a digital camera with images of celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Africa for an investigation by Los Angeles authorities. Accompanied by Secret Service officers, went to t

State anti-terrorism agency denies tracking political rallies

7-2-2006 • San Francisco Chronicle

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's anti-terror office said that it has never monitored the activities of political groups in California, in response to a newspaper report that it had tracked rallies and protests. Did not dispute a report in the Los Ang

State Tracked Protesters in the Name of Security

7-2-2006 • Los Angeles Times

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties.

Great Britian has it's own "decider"

07-02-2006 • Independent

(Excellent article about Blair's grab for power) In the guise of fighting terroism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair's Government has quietly and systematically take power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a 9-

More Domestic Spying than previously thought

07-01-2006 • Democracy Now

Earlier this week, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network released documents showing that the Pentagon conducted surveillance on a more extensive level than first reported late last year. De-classified documents show that the agency spied on

All Seeing Blimp on the Rise

07-01-2006 • Defense Tech

The problem with the American military today is that it doesn't have a giant, robotic airship, two-and-a-half times the size fof the Goodyear blimp, that can watch over an entire city at once. Thankfully, the Pentagon's way-out research arm

ACLU objects to firms offering mind reading tech to US government

6-28-2006 • Raw Story

The ACLU today announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act requests with the primary American security agencies for information relating to the use of "cutting-edge brain-scanning technologies" on suspected terrorists, RAW STOR

Gutsy librarians stand up to government and government blinks

6-26-2006 • Raw Story

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has conceded another legal victory to a group of Connecticut libraries. The NSL is a little known statute in the Patriot Act that permits law enforcement to obtain records of people not necessarily suspected of an

Belgium Congress probes domestic spying on us even as our own Reps won't

6-26-2006 • Reuters

Belgium's government said on Monday it was investigating the legality of counter-terrorism searches by U.S. officials of thousands of private records held by Brussels-based international bank cooperative SWIFT.

Court Bars Info Request on NSA Wiretapping

6-23-2006 • AP

A federal appeals court on Friday declined to force the government to turn over information on the National Security Agency's wiretapping program to a man charged in a terrorism case. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of

New Light on NSA Spying

06-24-2006 • Salon

A federal court in California released a previously sealed 40-page document on Thursday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against AT&T, which bolster allegations that the telecommunications giant built secret rooms to allow the NSA