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Mail Call - June 17
“To all you people out there who complain about getting tickets from speed cameras, which allow you 12 miles an hour over the speed limit before you’re fined: Try to stop complaining, and slow down.” — Hancock “I just read...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Susan Rice, Memorial Day, Politics
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Naperville reshapes security measures for special events after Boston Marathon bombings
Naperville police are changing security measures for major events this year in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. The department will schedule more officers, make better use of technology, improve communication with other agencies and plan for...
Tags: Boston Marathon, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Too much comfort in secret-keeping
Los Angeles TimesPresident Obama's response to the troubling news of indiscriminate government collection of communication information was meant to be reassuring: The NSA is operating under supervision by all three branches of government, he assured us. Even if this were...Tags: Mark Udall, National Security Agency, U.S. Congress, The New York Times, Judges
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NSA surveillance defeats democracy
"And so the charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air. Built on misrepresentation. Supported by unfounded fear. Held aloft by hysteria. On this and every other tool provided in the Patriot Act, charges of abuse of power...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, George W. Bush, National Security Agency, Politics, U.S. Congress
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NSA surveillance sparks privacy debate
You make a call from your land line or text a friend from your smartphone. You browse an online retailer for clothing, a book or music; you create a wish list or write a review. You walk past a security camera outside your home; you use GPS to find...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Business Enterprises, Politics, National Security Agency, Donna F. Edwards
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The case against NSA's phone record surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit against the National Security Agency, seeking an end to the collection of data about nearly every phone call made by Americans, provides an almost unprecedented opportunity for the public to challenge the...
Tags: Verizon Communications, Justice and Rights, Edward Snowden, National Security Agency, Politics
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Defending NSA spying puts GOP establishment on wrong side of debate
Yes, President Big Brother has been hurt by the National Security Agency domestic spying scandal. He once campaigned for the White House as a champion of civil liberties, and now he haplessly defends the NSA's secret data mining of the American people,...
Tags: Justice and Rights, White House, George W. Bush, PRISM (surveillance program), Republican Party
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Time to roll back the Patriot Act
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceAUSTIN, Texas It's time. It's time for President Obama to live up to his own words. It's time for Congress to do its job. It's time to contract the ever-expanding national security state. And it's time to roll back the Patriot Act. In Washington, elected...Tags: White House, Labor Legislation, Mark Udall, National Security Agency, Politics
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Congress unlikely to change NSA snooping
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock...Tags: Brookings Institution, Mike J. Rogers, Justice and Rights, Bernard Sanders, Barbara A. Mikulski
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U.S. senator calls for reopening of the Patriot Act
ReutersBy Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - A Democratic senator called on Sunday for a reopening of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11, 2001, law that gave intelligence agencies broader powers of data surveillance, after disclosures the...Tags: Verizon Communications, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, The Washington Post, Mark Udall, Politics
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White House defends collection of private phone records
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON President Barack Obama's administration on Thursday defended a newly disclosed National Security Agency program that gathers telephone records of tens of millions of Verizon customers, authorized under a secret court order. In an unusual move,...Tags: Mike J. Rogers, Justice and Rights, Barbara A. Mikulski, Bernard Sanders, White House
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Privacy advocates outraged, but lawmakers defend collection of phone records
Privacy advocates expressed outrage Thursday over revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting telephone records of virtually every phone call made in the United States for seven years, but the Obama administration and a bipartisan...
Tags: Mike J. Rogers, Barbara A. Mikulski, White House, Politics, National Security Agency
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Jun 9, 2013
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