Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no bones about his view of Twitter as a threat to his regime, dubbing it a "danger to society." Other officials in his government ruled Twitter "deadlier than car bombs." Twitter sure could make some Turkish...
"I really don't know who WikiLeaks are, other than this Assange person." - NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander If you read through the transcript of NSA Director Keith Alexander's appearance on ABC this morning, you're mostly reading deliberately ambiguous nonsense and...
The White House petition calling for President Obama to immediately and unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for informing the American public about the NSA's surveillance schemes has reached its goal of 100,000 signatures today, and in less than two weeks. The...
Tiny Maury County, Tennessee seems like a strange place to go looking for terrorism, but that's where we find ourselves focusing today. There's just something in the water in Maury County - or not depending on who you ask. Residents have been complaining about it for...
Death penalty hearings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees were quickly shelved today, and the courtroom ordered "cleared" during the defense lawyer's questioning of a former Gitmo prison commander Rear Admiral David Woods sparked an angry exchange with the...
Physics lesson time guys. So we've heard in the past 24 hours that: a) Some guys totally built an X-ray death beam to kill Obama and/or "enemies of Israel" b) Those guys were KKK but somehow pro-Israel too c) The whole thing was a "portable Hiroshima" that ran...
Just a reminder for those who haven't done so already, the White House petition calling on President Obama to preemptively pardon leaker Edward Snowden is still a little short of its goal. There's plenty of time left and no reason we shouldn't be able to get another...
Rep. Betty McCollum (D - MN) has suffered another setback in her efforts to end military waste, as her bill to ban military subsidies for NASCAR and professional wrestling was defeated in a vote of 134-290. Last year, McCollum noted that $26.5 million in funding from...
The NSA's PRISM scheme is already surveilling the entire American public to an enormous level, culling massive amounts of data from the PRISM Nine companies that have been complicit in that policy. So it's no surprise that the International Cyber Security Conference...
Sign the petition With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute/prosecute him as a leaker, it's easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes...
