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The Danger of the Still-escalating Obama Whistleblower War: Kiriakou and Stuxnet

By Glenn Greenwald

''The president s crackdown chills dissent, curtails a free press and betrays Obama s initial promise to 'usher in a new era of open government.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33738.htm



'US a Police State, Obama Consciously Allows Torture': CIA Veteran

By RT

Ten years ago, the idea of the US government spying on its citizens, intercepting their emails or killing them with drones was unthinkable. But now it s business as usual, says John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent and torture whistleblower.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33804.htm



Meet the Contractors Turning America s Police Into a Paramilitary
Force

By John Knefel

You should know about them because they may already know about you.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33801.htm



US' Betrayal of Truth: Our Silence Is Complicity

Video

Abby Martin sits down with former NSA whistleblower, Thomas Drake, about his personal story as a whistleblower and what he describes as a 'total betrayal' by part of the governmet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33894.htm



If Guantanamo Prisoners Stage a Hunger Strike, Does Anybody Care?

By Adam Clark Estes

''More detainees have died at the camp (nine) than have been convicted of wrongdoing by its military commissions (six).'' And some of these prisoners died without even getting the chance to defend themselves.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34178.htm



U.N. torture sleuth says no U.S. change on Guantanamo detainee access

United Nations' torture investigator Juan Mendez said on Tuesday the Obama administration showed no sign of reversing its position and allowing him access to terrorism suspects in long-term detention at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

http://is.gd/Fr1qOV


From Information Clearing House

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The broken promise of Barack Obama

Heartland Institute
by Benjamin Domenech

01/22/13

If history holds, President Obama s second term will be marked by fewer legislative achievements, more gridlock, and more contentious ideological division than his first. It is hard to see how this is possible. But I suspect we ll soon find that it is inevitable. It s because of the divide between the leader he promised us he would be, and the politician he actually is...

http://tinyurl.com/akdws3y



The president of perpetual war

In These Times
by David Sirota

01/25/13

Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama s political formula should be obvious. He gives fabulous speeches teeming with popular liberal ideas, often refuses to take the actions necessary to realize those ideas and then banks on most voters, activists, reporters and pundits never bothering to notice, or care about, his sleight of hand.

... Never was this formula more apparent than when the president discussed military conflicts during his second inaugural address. Declaring that 'a decade of war is now ending,' he insisted that he 'still believe(s) that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.' The lines generated uncritical applause, much of it from anti-war liberals who protested against the Bush administration. Living up to Obama s calculation, few seemed to notice that the words came from the same president who is manufacturing a state of 'perpetual war'...

http://tinyurl.com/a5m8gb3



A hollow inauguration

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/25/13

On January 11, the 11th anniversary of the opening of the 'war on terror' prison at Guantánamo, I was in Washington D.C., with human rights groups, lawyers, anti-torture groups (mostly religious), and other concerned persons, calling on Barack Obama to fulfill the promise he made to close the prison when he took office in 2009...

http://tinyurl.com/bkgpgtm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Torture Was Official US policy
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/01

The Rightward Shift of US Politics
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/02/01-0

Attorneys Demand Guantanamo Officials Address Hunger Strike at Camp 6
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/04-5



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