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Dissenter/FDL This weekend I made another visit to the federal correctional facility in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou is imprisoned. He was in good spirits and had [...]

(Reuters) – Missouri’s governor on Tuesday named 16 members to a panel charged with making recommendations to fix social and economic inequalities in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb [...]

Melissa Melton Activist Post  The timing on the Department of Homeland Security supposedly “training” in droves in Chesterfield, a suburb of St. Louis less than 25 miles from Ferguson where [...]

AP National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the Boston Marathon bombings are an example of how threats can be missed even under blanket surveillance. Snowden, who leaked millions of [...]

Boston Globe THE VOTERS WHO put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of [...]

The Hill A tech industry coalition dedicated to reining in government spying is adding a new member. Note-taking service Evernote is joining Facebook, Google, Microsoft and six other tech giants [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI director on Thursday criticized the decision by Apple and Google to encrypt smartphones data so it can be inaccessible to law enforcement, even with a court order. [...]

The News Tribune As The News Tribune reported in August, the Tacoma Police Department has a device called a Stingray that experts say is capable of sweeping up cellphone data within its [...]

McClatchy WASHINGTON — A nonprofit watchdog group is suing an obscure Defense Department unit over its failure for three years to disclose the results of testing on the security safeguards of [...]

Computer Weekly Bill Binney believes that 9/11 was preventable. A month after it happened, he resigned in protest from the US National Security Agency (NSA). Binney was part of an elite NSA team [...]