08 August 2013
Vocabulary word of the day: “Overcollection”
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Gerry Bello
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
George Orwell "Politics and the English Language," 1946

Two months ago General Clapper sat before his bosses at the Senate...
06 August 2013
The secret court: Is it Constitutional?
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Christopher H. Pyle
Americans are just beginning to discover that a secret court has been quietly erasing their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. They are also learning that this court is made up primarily of...
05 August 2013
Mythical creature sightings: Robust congressional oversight and Nessy in the Potomac
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Gerry Bello
Like all schoolchildren in America, Congress is now on summer recess. Predictably, while unsupervised, they have taken to playground shoving and taunting in earnest. A troika of ardent NSA defenders took to the airwaves Sunday to claim...
04 August 2013
Lies, revelations and aborted transparency hearings
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Gerry Bello
Having agreed to Putin's conditions of not making additional revelations, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden packed his bag and moved to an undisclosed location somewhere in Russia after having been granted temporary asylum. The revelations...
04 August 2013
Parsing the public promises to Putin by Holder
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Gerry Bello
On July 26, Attorney General Eric Holder made promises to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia via Russia's Justice Minister, Alexander Konovalov. In his open letter, Holder claimed that the United States would not execute Edward...
04 August 2013
The foreign cloud
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Gerry Bello
The latest bombshell revelation from Edward Snowden via the Guardian newspaper is a program called XKEYSCORE. In a previous article, the Free Press released a drop down menu that allowed NSA analysts to simply fill in the blank defining...

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