War on Terror or War on Free Press? FBI Used Unconstitutional, Illegal...
I’ve never written such a long headline before, but each and every element of it is crucial: * The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General has released a report, parts of which remain...
View ArticleChallenge: Find Fox News Report on 400 Columbia Students and Obama
I’d appreciate your help. In fact checking an Obama conspiracy e-mail making the rounds, I’ve been trying to verify one of its claims: NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA!!!!!!! Looking for evidence of...
View ArticleCollection of Suspicious Activity Reports by Government Declines in 2009
When the Patriot Act was passed in 2001, the bar above which financial institutions are required to send the U.S. Government “suspicious activity reports” regarding Americans’ financial transactions...
View Article90th Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Ignore that most Terrorists actually AREN’T...
“Most terrorists are Muslim” is a phrase you’ll encounter over and over again in conservative America, a phrase assumed by its speakers to be true and often used to justify escapades in religious...
View ArticleMust-Read: Targeted and Entrapped Report on Manufacturing Terrorist Threats
I strongly suggest you read “Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the ‘Homegrown Threat’ in the United States,” a new report from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York...
View ArticleReport: Inside the DC Beltway, Inequality is Even More Striking than Outside
Washington, DC has the 2nd highest average income among its richest 20% of all of America’s 50 largest cities. But the income of DC’s poorest 20% is far below the 50-largest-city average. The capital...
View ArticleData Dump: Pages 1-9 of the Americans Elect Mission Report
Yesterday, I promised that I’d start making public what the Americans Elect corporation has not made public: its August 2012 Mission Report. Appreciation goes to Americans Elect Board of Advisors...
View ArticleAugust 8: Americans Elect Starts Collecting $$ for Angus King. August 20:...
Take a look at pages 5 and 6 of this excerpt of the Americans Elect Mission Report. As you can see from that excerpt, the report features a letter signed by Peter Ackerman and dated August 20. August...
View ArticlePrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Introduces Website and First Report
Empowered to subpoena testimony and documents from the U.S. Government, evaluate the constitutionality of “War on Terror” programs, and report its findings to Congress and the public, the Privacy and...
View ArticleAutomatic License Plate Readers: Persistent Privacy Invaders with a 0.0047%...
The American Civil Liberties Union has recently released a report showing that license plate readers, mounted on police cars and designed to automatically scan plates and pull up associated driver...
View ArticleThe U.S. Tortures People … Which Three Senators Didn’t Want You To Know?
“Warning: Many readers may find the following material offensive.” So wrote USA Today without irony before describing how the United States tortured people, to no end, in our names. Today, you can read...
View ArticleReport: Charter Schools Waste and Fail across 12 States
Yesterday, the Center for Media and Democracy released a new report on the publicly-funded, privately-run and deregulated entities known as “charter schools.” The theory behind charter schools was that...
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