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US assassination drone kills 5, injures 7 in northwestern Pakistan
At least five people have been killed and seven others injured in an attack by a US assassination drone in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal region, Press TV reports
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Texas bill criminalizing airport pat-downs is back
A contentious proposal to criminalize excessive touching by agents during airport security pat-downs returned Wednesday to the Texas Legislature, along with concerns that the federal government could ground all flights into and out of
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Oops, TSA guy goes spray-zy!
A bumbling TSA agent “playing around” with a pepper-spray container at Kennedy Airport fired the caustic liquid at five fellow screeners yesterday, sending all six to the hospital, a source told The Post
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Look! Up in the sky! 10,000 drones in US by 2020
The idea of thousands of drones buzzing high above Main Street, USA may sound just a bit too Orwellian for most people. But according to the FAA, the future is already here. The Federal Aviation
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‘To whistleblow is like a death sentence’: five people who risked everything to speak out
Nevres Kemal was a social worker with Haringey Council between 2004 and 2007. After raising concerns with senior managers about child protection failings there, she wrote a letter in February 2007 to the Department
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Bills Would Mandate Warrant for GPS Tracking, Cellphone Location Data
Two bills introduced Thursday in the House and Senate would compel law enforcement agents to obtain a warrant before affixing a GPS tracker to a vehicle, using a cell site simulator to locate someone
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TSA agents ‘humiliated’ wounded Marine with aggressive inspection: report
Transportation Security Administration inspectors forced a wounded Marine who lost both of his legs in an IED blast and who was in a wheelchair to remove his prosthetic legs at one point, and at
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Ignoring Whistleblowers
A government whistleblower, disclosing classified secrets, risks criminal charges. Defining restricted material usually includes a broad scope of information that casts officials or agencies in a compromising embarrassment. The idea that public servants may
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What are my rights at various “checkpoints”?
There are four general types of checkpoints you might encounter: DUI checkpoints, US border checkpoints, drug checkpoints, and TSA checkpoints. In a legal sense, they are not all created equal. So depending on which
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Things You Didn’t Know About the President’s Secret Army
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC, pronounced: JAY-sock) is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president's secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous,
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CIA Must End Silence on Drone Targeted Killings, Appeals Court Says
A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency’s refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it
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DARPA-funded V-Bat drone could be flying over the United States in the near future
The V-Bat drone, funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), could very well be flying over the United States soon due relatively low asking price and features which some of the many
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US seeks to expand assassination drone attacks to Syria: Report
The CIA is considering a secret contingency plan to expand the US assassination drone strikes to Syria, former and current American officials say. The officials said the Counterterrorism Center, which runs CIA’s drone operations in
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JSoc: Obama’s secret assassins
The president has a clandestine network targeting a 'kill list' justified by secret laws. How is that different than a death squad? The film Dirty Wars, which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy
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CIA Drone Attacks: Killing Suspects “Just in Case” They are Guilty
There is a new trend in the ‘war on terror’ by the real world terror of the US, Israeli and Western governments, and it is called ‘bomb them just in case’. With the looming threat
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US Drones bombing Africa operated from RAF bases in the heart of the Lincolnshire countryside
An RAF base in Britain is being used by America in its controversial drone warfare campaign, it was claimed last night. Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal that the United States has established
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Obama’s ‘Kill List’ Grows
We are now witnessing the expansion of Obama’s “kill list.” The list began under the Bush regime as a rationale for murdering suspect citizens of countries with which the United States was not at
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It’s now clear: Obama intends to use drone strikes to kill American journalists and political enemies
President Obama plans to use military drones in the skies over the United States to assassinate journalists, patriots and critics of his administration. That's the inescapable conclusion from the emerging pattern of evidence now
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Targeted Drone Killings & Senator Rand Paul’s Filibuster Against John Brennan
Attorney General Eric Holder was brought before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer for the letter he wrote to Senator Rand Paul concerning the Obama administration’s legal right to use drones to kill American
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US Attorney General Gives the Go-Ahead on Domestic Drone Strikes: May Be Necessary Under “Extraordinary Circumstances”
When Congress authorized the deployment of some 30,000 drones over U.S. skies with the passage of the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act in 2012 many civil liberties groups, privacy advocates and
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