Killer Drones Coming To America!

By: bmaz Tuesday June 15, 2010 5:37 pm

The FAA has been asked to issue flying rights for drones to carry out military and civilian law-enforcement functions in the US. How long before they hit one of our precious wedding celebrations right here in the homeland of the good old “real America”?

Steven Bradbury Didn’t Disclose His Appendix M Opinion to Congress

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 30, 2010 12:47 pm

As I posted a week ago, in April 2006 Steven Bradbury wrote one of the most egregious of all the egregious torture memos, one approving the new Army Field Manual, including its Appendix M laying out more intense interrogation methods. While the legal analysis of the memo was, itself, fairly nondescript, the analysis in the [...]

What the Scope of the IG Report on Warrantless Wiretapping Tells Us

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 31, 2009 6:52 pm

From the scope of the IG report into the warrantless wiretap program, it seems the investigation is inadequate. But it does tell us more about the program.

Stephen Cambone Collects on His Handiwork with CIFA

By: emptywheel Wednesday January 16, 2008 6:06 pm

I’ve long suspected that the GOP has used the Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) as a way to spy on domestic enemies even while making their friends rich. CIFA is the organization that collected information on both Jesus’ General and Quakers, then stuck it into a database without requisite privacy protections. And then, when Congress and the Carol Lam started focusing on CIFA, its database on private citizens got quickly disappeared.

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