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Petraeus Affair Shows How Easily the FBI Can Read Your Emails (W/Video)
from Politix
Michael Mayday, Staff Writer
Privacy advocates point to latest DC scandal as evidence of growing problem
The continuing turmoil surrounding David Petraeus’s sexual escapades with biographer Paula Broadwell has privacy-rights activists crying foul. Not over Petraeus’s affair, but over how seemingly easy it is for the FBI to gain access to multiple private email accounts without a warrant, and to do so for relatively insignificant reasons.
Current cyber-privacy laws are laughably outdated, as the ACLU notes. . . . Read Complete Report
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from the Guardian (UK)
FBI’s abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
Glenn Greenwald
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday 3 November 2012 09.46 EST
That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
The Petraeus scandal is receiving intense media scrutiny obviously due to its salacious aspects, leaving one, as always, to fantasize about what a stellar press corps we would have if they devoted a tiny fraction of this energy to dissecting non-sex political scandals (this unintentionally amusing New York Times headline from this morning – “Concern Grows Over Top Military Officers’ Ethics” – illustrates that point: with all the crimes committed by the US military over the last decade and long before, it’s only adultery that causes “concern” over their “ethics”). Nonetheless, several of the emerging revelations are genuinely valuable, particularly those involving the conduct of the FBI and the reach of the US surveillance state. . . . Read Complete Report
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from youtube
David Petraeus Scandal: Truth Behind Resignation, Paula Broadwell
Published on Nov 11, 2012
David Kerley, Reena Ninan investigate CIA chief’s relationship with biographer
Category: Eyeballin' the One World Order /
Tags: affair, Agency, army, Central, CIA, David Director, David General, director, email, emails, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigations, General, intelligence, Petraeus, privacy-rights, scandal, sex, warrent, without
Marijuana Crackdown Staged to Distract From “Fast and Furious” Scandal, Author Says
Here is a great example of the connections between the differing areas of study we concentrate on here at THEI. . . EDITOR
from SF Weekly (San Francisco)
By Chris Roberts Mon., Aug. 13 2012 at 7:30 AM
Eric Holder: “Closed Down Pot Clubs in a Fast and Furious Way”
Turns out the federal Justice Department’s almost-yearlong crackdown on state-legal medical cannabis has nothing to do with hard-line drug warriors, forfeiture numbers, President Barack Obama’s reelection effort — or even marijuana itself.
Shutting dispensaries in California, Colorado, Montana, and Washington is all an attempt at political misdirection, with a state-legal industry as the unfortunate collateral damage, according to journalist Martin A. Lee.
Attorney General Eric Holder directed his prosecutors to dismantle legal weed so that he could distract Republican congressmen and Justice Department officials from his mishandling of the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal, Lee, the author of an upcoming social history of marijuana, said in an article published this weekend on Truthout. . . . Read Complete Report
Category: Border Wars, Drug Wars & Pot Prohibition /
Tags: crackdown, distract, eric holder, Fast and furious, jJustice Department, marijuana, scandal, staged
