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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Meanwhile, back in Iraq...
Dahr Jamail doc preview:
http://images.indymedia.org/imc/seattle/media/2005/04/245474.mov
One year after Abu Ghraib:
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/video/year_after.htm
For those seeking to challenge all this, here’s something I just read at the CBS News website:
“The number of secret court-authorized wiretaps across the country surged by 19 percent last year, records show. As law enforcement authorities scurried to keep apace of improving technology favored by criminals, not a single application was denied. State and federal judges approved 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or electronic communications last year, and four states — New York, California, New Jersey and Florida — accounted for three out of every four surveillance orders, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That agency is required to collect the figures and report them to Congress. Terrorism is not mentioned, probably because most of those wiretaps are authorized by the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, not federal judges. Even without terrorism, the 1,754 warrants last year was a record.”
Another day in the coast-to-coast mall we call “the land of the free.”
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