Obama Administration Secretly Allowing Internet Surveillance
By Declan McCullagh
US Justice Department immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34732.htm
Web censorship: the net is closing in
Across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we are not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state.
http://is.gd/MP15wz
Internet Privacy Bill CISPA Means 'No More Privacy'?
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''It s not about Left vs. Right...It s about Liberty vs. Oppression'': Ben Swann
http://is.gd/XPirz4
CISPA: The House passed it a week ago, but most don t know what it is
Critics of CISPA, say that it is an affront to American civil liberties, and the privacy of its citizens. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ''the bill grants broad new powers, allowing companies to identify and obtain ''threat information'' by looking at your private information.''
http://is.gd/o0WOmX
AP Phone Records Seized By Justice Department As War On Leaks Continues
The Associated Press revealed Monday that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from the spring of 2012, the latest and most illustrative example of the Obama administration s unprecedented war on leaks.
http://is.gd/a4Wcay
Here s the story the AP suspects led to sweeping Justice Dept. subpoena
The Department of Justice secretly obtained Associated Press phone records from 20 different phone lines over two months, according to the news agency. The subpoenaed phones records included personal and office lines for several national security reporters and editors as well as ''the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery.''
http://is.gd/HbPcsX
Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records
It no longer makes sense to treat calling records and other metadata related to our communications as if they aren t fully protected by the Constitution.
http://is.gd/6jBP0J
Holder Discloses IRS Criminal Probe
He said he ordered the investigation Friday, after the IRS apologized for what it said was inappropriate scrutiny of tax-exemption requests by conservative groups with ''tea party'' or ''patriot'' in their names.
http://is.gd/tFyQh1
Jon Stewart Rips Government Over IRS and AP Secret Monitoring
Video
Stewart tore into the IRS, especially the apparent belief of Lois Lerner, the head of the division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, that an apology was enough for singling out Tea Party groups.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34954.htm
Obama and Press Freedom
The Posterior of Fascism
By Norman Pollack
The qualitative leap taken by Obama transforms now-familiar old-fashioned Imperialism and probusiness actions into a tightening of monopoly capitalism as assisted by military power in search of absolute arbitrariness in shaping the global structure and, not incidentally, silencing dissent at home.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34962.htm
Obama Worse Than Nixon?
Pentagon Papers Attorney Decries AP Phone Probe, Julian Assange Persecution
Video
The AP example is a good example of something that Obama has done but Nixon never did.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34988.htm
This Is No Ordinary Scandal
Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
http://is.gd/l8VHyk
Obama s cyber target list: full document text
Eighteen-page presidential memo reveals how Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber attacks.
http://is.gd/VFyKHA
From Information Clearing House
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'Abuse of Power': Obama s DOJ Blasted for Seizure of AP Phone Records
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/14
Justice Department s Pursuit of AP s Phone Records Is Both Extreme and Dangerous
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14-6
There Are Two IRS Scandals: One You have Heard Of And One You Havent
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/14
The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon on Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14-5
Monitoring of AP Phones a ''Terrifying'' Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/15-0
Freedom, Security at Odds Again in DoJ Seizure of AP Records
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/15
The Major Sea Change in Media Discussions of Obama and Civil Liberties
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-4
Is Obama the New Nixon?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/16-8
'Worse Than Nixon': Outrage Grows Over Obama Assault on Press
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/22-3
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Storm Clouds Gathering
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano101.html
Watergate, Nixon, Rockefeller
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport29.1.html
The IRS s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul860.html
The Spectator President
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan312.html
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Bill of Rights trashed by ''Justice'
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Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor
05/16/13
If any attorney at law should be familiar with the provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights it is certainly the Attorney General, who, just like every attorney in America, has sworn a solemn oath to preserve, protect, defend and uphold that supreme law of the land. You might think that the head of Justice would observe justice. But if you thought that in the case of current Attorney General Eric Holder, and his Justice Department, you would be wrong...
http://tinyurl.com/cpgxqvh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Obama Orders List of Foreign Cyber Targets
David S. Cloud, McClatchy Newspapers: President Obama has ordered his national security team to draw up a secret target list for possible cyber attacks, a major expansion of US planning for disabling and hacking into foreign computer networks, according to the top secret directive.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16846-obama-orders-list-of-foreign-cyber-targets
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