Archive for August 20th, 2007
Secret spy court orders Bush to respond to request for information on secret ruling
Raw Story | August 18, 2007
In an unprecedented order, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the Bush Administration to respond to a request it received last week by the American Civil Liberties Union for orders and legal papers discussing the scope of the government’s authority to engage in the secret wiretapping of Americans, according to [...]
Watch it, or surveillance will take over our lives
The Observer | August 19, 2007
By Simon Caulkin, management editor
Some radical friends didn’t share the enthusiastic reception for Lives of Others, the haunting recent film about life under the Stasi, the East German secret police. It wasn’t the acting or even the Big-Brother type plot of hidden manipulation and control that they objected to: what [...]
Man Video Tapes Cop Breaking the Law — Gets Ordered to Stop Filming Due to “Terrorism”
New York Daily News | August 16, 2007
BY NICK REISMAN and ALISON GENDAR
A Brooklyn traffic agent became a YouTube star when she was caught on camera parking her patrol car in front of a fire hydrant – and then flipping the bird to the cameraman.
Edythe Anderson, an NYPD summons enforcement supervisor, apparently thought nothing of [...]
The Rockefeller File
