Paul Craig Roberts believes we have undergone a coup
[cross-posted at And, Yes, I DO take it personally] this is the first major media figure that i've run across who is saying out loud what i've been saying for three years... there are probably others...
View Article325,000 names now on Terror Watchlists
CNN is now reporting on Headline News that 325,000 names are now listed on the "terror watchlists", as potential threats to national security. This is after the Washington Post story on this appeared...
View Article325,000 Names on Terror List!
Crossposted from SmokeyMonkey.org.[Update]: Soj posted this diary today, The NSA's Brave New World. There is some great background there.This is just a crazy figure, but that is only the very brief...
View ArticleAnother War Critic on the No-Fly List [poll]
Dr. Robert Johnson from NY found out he was on the No-Fly List a few months ago. What is interesting is how this story was reported by a news organization and how this independent blogger treats the...
View ArticleHow to fool the no-fly list
This morning the blogosphere is buzzing about a Chicago Tribune article that claims that CIA operatives can be identified using simple Google searches. Reactions seem to range from ex-spook Larry...
View ArticleResponse from my Congressman on TSA's Secure Flight Program
Several months ago, I read this story about James Moore, author of Bush's Brain and how he suddenly found himself on the TSA's No-Fly Watch List. I read and re-read the article, thought about it, and...
View ArticleThe coming no-work list: Barring 3/4 Million Americans from jobs
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the Bush administration is hoping to roll out a national no-work list designed to prevent noncitizens without appropriate visas from working:privacy experts are...
View ArticleInnocents added to watch lists to meet quotas
Check this article out. Apparently, Air Marshalls are being pressed to meet certain quotas of reports on suspicious people:The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that...
View ArticleMarshals: Innocent People placed on 'Watch List' to Meet Quota
"Big Brother is watching you..." ...and he has a quota. According to the Denver Channel 7 News the Air Marshals service have a quota from the Department of Homeland Security which defines that they...
View ArticleGetting Around the FBI
We've heard this story over the past couple of days -- here it is reported by NPR:Two U.S. citizens have been barred from entering the United States for refusing to talk to the FBI. Both are California...
View ArticleProposed DHS Rule Ends Freedom to Travel Internationally
There's very little information that I could find on the web about this apart from posts on obscure websites and the text of the rule itself at regulations.gov. ...The USA Department of Homeland...
View ArticleAll Americans required to receive permission to travel from DHS
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine the right of American citizens to travel abroad. Public carriers-airlines, cruise lines, even...
View ArticleWho's on the Look Out List?
The Bush Administration's No Fly List, which seems to do a good job of nabbing Nebraska nuns and small boys from Colorado, may have an offshoot called the "Look Out List." A German tourist of Syrian...
View ArticleNot quite cute and fuzzy
Everyone loves an animal story. Heck, Animal Planet has nothing but programs about animals that can suck you in for hours of viewing. However, this is the story of a furry critter that just can't...
View ArticleCarolyn McCarthy and the Police State
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) is a woman on a mission. Her mission is to curb gun violence, so that what happened to her husband on the Long Island Railroad doesn't happen again. This is, of course, to be...
View ArticleNo-Fly List - it's bigger than we think
The Raw Story is reporting that "a top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush's executive overreach recently learned that he had been...
View ArticleYou're a terrorist and you didn't know it
I'm going to keep this short and sweet, since diaries don't seem to be my strong point.Ordinary Customers Flagged as TerroristsPrivate businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers...
View ArticleSuspected Terrorist? Guns OK says the NRA.
Here's one more thing that proves the National Rifle Association leadership is f***ing crazy:WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support...
View ArticleTreasury Dep't. sued over watchlist
Thomas Burke, a lawyer who worked on our lawsuit about the no-fly list, wrote today to let me know that he is now trying to find out what the U.S. government is doing with yet another huge list of...
View Article"No-Fly" List and Guantanamo Bay
At first blush, the "no-fly" list and Guantanamo Bay have nothing in common except the fact they they are both monstrous creatures of the Bush featured on 60 Minutes and "Meet the Press." But let me...
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