Air Marshals Lie To Congress, Reporter Harassed

The reporter who documented how federal air marshals lied to Congress has been harassed by a night-time raid.  The alleged purpose of the raid was to look for a potato launcher.  The real purpose of the raid was to send an example to other reporters, and to seize protected notes in the house.

Audrey Hudson says that her reporting notes were taken during a search of her home by the Department of Homeland Security and Maryland police. ... "They took my notes without my knowledge and without legal authority to do so," Hudson told the Daily Caller. "The search warrant they presented said nothing about walking out of here with a single sheet of paper.
... five files with interview notes were taken during the raid. Those files had the names of government sources, and "were used to expose how the Federal Air Marshal Service had lied to Congress about the number of airline flights there were actually protecting against another terrorist attack," Hudson says.

Killing and "Indiscriminate Attacks"

Obama has taking remote killing from Bush and is running full-speed with it.  More drone killing of civilians creates distrust and hate.  Obama is creating the future terrorists!


Six Key Parts of a New Report That May Change Your View on Drones

... U.S. has failed to comply with international law in its use of drones to fight counterterrorism. Gathered over the course of six weeks from a HRW reporter on the ground in Yemen, the report focuses on six specific drone strikes that led to the death of 82 people—at least 57 of whom were civilians—according to the organization.
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the six incidents “represent a range of questions that the [Obama] administration needs to answer—from indiscriminate attacks to killing when capture may have been feasible.”

When Will Consumers Stand Up?

Consumers regularly volunteer their Social Security Number to credit card companies, phone companies, cable companies, and others.  Consumers have the power to say no.  Instead, consumers wanted to have the latest iPhone on the first day of release, so they volunteer their SSN to the cell phone companies.  This is part of the result of consumer choice to volunteer private information:

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus ...

Fed Hides Malfeasance

Contrary to the regulatory mandate of the private Federal Reserve, a former employee alleges she was fired when she refused to lie:

A federal judge rejected the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s plea to seal documents in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former bank examiner who claims she was fired for doing her job...

The Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel that operates like a hidden tax on the people.  This 3rd central bank of the USA should be dismantled.

Sensible Spying?

Hillary Clinton calls for a sensible discussion about big government spying on the citizens.

"Hillary Clinton has called for a "sensible adult conversation", to be held in a transparent way, about the boundaries of state surveillance ..."

There is nothing "sensible" about big government gone wild.  The East Germans employed friends and neighbors to spy on each other.  Now the spying is being done electronically in the USA, and it is not better - it is simply a means for government to control the people.

Hillary said, "On the intelligence issue, we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK."  Democracy gone wild in support of big government and the military-industrial complex."

Domestic Spying For What Cause?

Domestic spying has not helped to thwart domestic terror attacks.  The Washington Times reports on police state lying:

“There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots,” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and committee chairman, told Gen. Alexander
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Mr. Leahy, who has been a chief critic of the NSA, asked Gen. Alexander to admit that only 13 of the 54 cases had any connection at all to the U.S., “Would you agree with that, yes or no?”
“Yes,” Gen. Alexander replied in a departure from normal practice.

The spokesperson for the big-brother security state lied about the number of foiled terrorist attacks.  Is he also lying about the 13 cases?

Gen. Alexander also acknowledged that only one or perhaps two of even those 13 cases had been foiled with help from the NSA’s vast phone records database.

Yes, he did lie.  "Perhaps" one or two.  Or perhaps zero.


Why is the USA's secret police state spying on us?  Are they looking to blackmail potential political candidates?  Are they looking for unclaimed taxes?  In the name of homeland security, we have turned ourselves into 1950s east Germany - we spy on ourselves.