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FBI Stops Hilarious Nut Case Death Ray “Terror Plot”

In the wake of the many disclosures of government spying on Americans, followed by half-assed attempts by the same government to prove how many bad terrorists they stopped enroute to monitoring every...

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FBI Again Creates, then “Stops” a Terror Attack, Refutes Constitution

Sleep safe Citizens, for the rough men of your national security state are guarding the walls. Wait. Those rough men are actually clowns. The truth is more that the FBI is creating its own terror plots...

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The National Security State Continues to Militarize the Homeland

(This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post) While poets and psychologists talk about soldiers bringing the battlefield home with them, in fact, the U.S. is doing just that. More and more,...

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War Comes Home: Welcome to Post-Constitution America

This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.com. In light of the Bradley Manning verdict, this seemed worth re-reading. On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower...

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FBI Takes Over Consulate Naples Case

For those who have enjoyed our coverage of the allegations of sex, false expense claims and forced resignations at the U.S. Consulate in Naples (and if you have not read the story, catch up here and...

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Obama NSA Speech: Pretty Words, No Real Change

Bottom Line Up Front: The details of Obama’s most recent speech about “changes” to the NSA’s surveillance practices reveal that sadly little of substance will change. A few cosmetic touchups, some nice...

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FBI Makes a Video on How You Can Be a Chinese Spy

Are you a bonehead? Or do you have a college-age son or daughter who is a bonehead interested in study abroad? Have we got a video for you. Your FBI is concerned that bonehead Americans will travel...

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Hilarious Anti-China U.S. Propaganda Smoked by Online Ad

Your FBI is concerned that bonehead Americans will travel overseas to enemy-controlled territory such as China and be recruited as spies. Since this apparently sort-of happened once to one total...

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Where was the NSA before the Isla Vista Mass Shooting?

Elliot Rodger, a college student who posted videos that documented his rage against women, killed six people and wounded 13 others last week. He stabbed three men to death in his apartment and shot the...

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Stung: Government Disappears Stingray Spying Records

We’ve heard variations on the phrase “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” from the government for quite some time. It appears this may be true, at least if you are the government. In...

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No-Fly List Appeals System Declared Unconstitutional

No-Fly is No Fair. People on the government’s no-fly list are denied their constitutional right to due process, because the government’s procedures to challenge inclusion on the secretive roster are...

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Mysterious Phony Cell Towers: Who is Spying on You Now?

A security researcher identified multiple “fake” cell phone towers around the United States, many near military bases, designed to intercept calls and texts without your knowledge, and to potentially...

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There is Much to Fear

One of the exceptional things about Post-Constitutional America is how instead of using the traditional tools of an autocracy– secret police, torture, mass round ups– the majority of Americans have...

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How to Communicate Securely with the Media

Glenn Greenwald almost missed the story of his career because he didn’t understand how to communicate securely. The person Greenwald now knows as Edward Snowden began contacting him via open email,...

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FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance Planes

The FBI surveilled peaceful protests in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, protest acts protected by the First Amendment, from the air, using high-tech monitoring aircraft. The...

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FBI Stops Terrorist Death Ray Plot; Roadrunner Still at Large

Another close call as the FBI announced it stopped another terrorist plot it helped facilitate. The best part of this one is that the plot involved some yahoo trying to develop a “death ray machine”...

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Florida Man Arrested in FBI/ISIS-Inspired Plot to Bomb a Beach

So you be the judge: which organization, the FBI or ISIS, had more to do with this supposed “threat” to Das Homeland? The FBI has arrested a man who allegedly wanted to detonate a bomb in what...

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FBI Saved 9/11 Day By Foiling Another Non-Terror Plot Plot

Did you have a nice 9/11 day Friday? Did you know you almost were killed? No, not really, except… Whew. America survived another never was going to happen terror plot nearly completely driven by the...

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Terror Arrest After Watching ‘Breaking Bad’

A British software programmer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trying to buy the deadly toxin ricin (from the FBI) over the Internet. Mohammed Ali was convicted of attempting to possess...

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Virginia Man Is Accused of Trying to Join ISIS

Another day, another faux-terrorism arrest by the FBI. Who do we really need to be protected from anyway? Now watch the italics: The Justice Department charged two Virginia men with terrorism-related...

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