Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals
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Chief postal inspector tells lawmakers that social media monitoring began after George Floyd protests
Yet now it’s Republicans leading the charge against the USPS, after it emerged that iCOP was monitoring right-wing social media accounts following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. It’s unclear if news that the program was also tracking protests related to Black Lives Matter will prompt Democratic lawmakers, who have so far been silent about the program, to join their GOP colleagues in asking for more answers.
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“People who ordinarily support human rights are willing to give the private sector and the state more power over their lives.”
US Intelligence Walks Back Claim Russia Paid Bounties for US Troops in Afghanistan
US Intelligence Walks Back Claim Russia Paid Bounties for US Troops in Afghanistan
Despite the fact that the Russian bounty story has zero credibility, the Biden administration is still using it to advance hawkish Russia policies. When announcing a series of sanctions on Moscow and the expelling of Russian diplomats on Thursday, the State Department cited “reports of bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan.”
Mass surveillance, our militarized border, & America’s looming potential for a civil war
Just Leave the Commies Alone
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 25, 2021
I’m not sure what good it did for the Cold War to end, given that the U.S. government has done everything it could since then to gin up hostilities, tension, and conflict with the communist and former communist world.
Just Leave the Commies Alone
The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics
In sum, to the Department of Homeland Security, an “extremist” is anyone who opposes the current prevailing ruling class and system for distributing power.
Biden’s retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly
Biden’s retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly
The planned response to the SolarWinds hack reflects a much deeper problem in the Washington establishment’s attitudes and policy: the belief that the United States can unilaterally set the rules of the international system, and yet set different rules for itself whenever it feels an urgent need to do so. This was never an approach that was going to be accepted by other powerful states. In the area of cybersecurity it makes even less sense, for the internet really is (in many bad ways, alas) a great leveler. To adapt a famous meme: on the internet nobody knows that you are the only superpower.
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