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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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Obama’s Executive Order Gives Feds Green Light To Spy On You
Saying that cyber attacks, and not terrorism, are the top threat to the United States, the government has now decided that the emails and web surfing history of private sector employees will be subject
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President Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis
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Obama turning to executive power to get what he wants
President Barack Obama came into office four years ago skeptical of pushing the power of the White House to the limit, especially if it appeared to be circumventing Congress. Now, as he launches his second
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The Ugly Truth Behind Obama’s Cyber-War
Last week, a top U.S. government intelligence official named James Clapper warned Congress that the threat of somebody using the Internet to attack the United States is "even more pressing than an attack by
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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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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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US silenced ex-White House official on terror drone program
The former White House press secretary has admitted that the Obama administration had pressured him not to ‘discuss’ or even ‘acknowledge’ the existence of US assassination drone program during his tenure
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Obama admin won’t say if they claim authority to assassinate US citizens on US soil without charges
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Obama administration’s assassination program is the fact that they simply refuse to address if they claim the authority to kill Americans on US soil without charge or
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