Tag civil liberties

FOIAing special police operations in DC

The Washington Post reports that Partnership for Civil Justice has filed a FOIA request on the Federally-backed “Safe Streets task force” that is operating in DC, and which is implicated in allegations of an unjust shooting of a suspect they were pursuing this past week. “The residents in the District have a right to know [...]

NSA reportedly intercepting “all” email.

Now, this is vague second or third or fourth-hand knowledge, but we think it comes from a credible source. We’ll all know this evening. NBC camera man Jim Long says he’s shooting an interview with the “foremost author on [the] NSA.” We think that means James Bamford, who has a pretty solid track record. In [...]

In higher relief

I’m listening to the reading of the Declaration of Independence on NPR this morning as I read the news. I am not encouraged as the two hundred and thirty two years old litany of complaints echoes through my head and I compare them to the nature of the recent news an analysis (see the clippings [...]