Wiretapping and Legal Ethics, and More from CRS
New reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been released to the public include the following. Wiretapping, Tape Recorders, and Legal Ethics: An Overview of Questions Posed by...
View ArticleCourt Rules NDAA Unconstitutional
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View ArticleObama & the NDAA: Through the Looking Glass
Actions speak louder than words, or in this case, a signing statement. Actions are also a good indicator of intent. Despite all of the assurances from Barack Hussein Obama that he would not implement...
View ArticleRep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has No Idea What This Obama Kill List Thing Is...
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View ArticleNDAA to expand if Obama re-elected?
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View ArticleAfter Obama Victory, A Petition For States To Secede On The White House Website
At 25,000 signatures, the White House says it will respond. Potheads and UFO truthers displaced by secessionists. More than a dozen petitions sprung up on the White House petitions website "We The...
View ArticleRon Paul’s Farewell Speech to Congress: We Must Reject Coercion as a Tool to...
Rep. Ron Paul, who did not seek re-election to the House seat he won in 1996, gave part one of his farewell speech to Congress from the House floor this afternoon, aired live on C-SPAN. (Paul told me...
View ArticleWhite House threatens NDAA veto over Guantanamo provisions
In an official statement released Thursday, the White House said it would veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2013 if it passed in its current form. The White House “strongly...
View ArticleSenate votes down indefinite detention of Americans — or does it?
The Senate on Thursday voted in favor of a narrow amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act in the hope of ensuring an end to the indefinite detention of Americans. The newest draft of the...
View ArticleJohn McCain Says Rand Paul Is Helping Democrats Make The Case For Filibuster...
Senator John McCain apologized to Democrats Monday on the Senate floor for efforts by Senator Rand Paul to block the National Defense Authorization Act. McCain said Paul's efforts “lends some credence”...
View ArticleMcCain Apologizes To Democrats For Rand Paul’s Stance On NDAA Bill
(Pete Kasperowicz) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday apologized to Democrats for a Republican attempt to block progress on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and said that blocking is...
View ArticleSenate approves $631 billion defense budget
The US Senate unanimously passed the Pentagon’s 2013 budget on Tuesday, despite a political impasse over debt reduction that could see huge cuts to military spending next year. After months of...
View ArticleUS Senate approves $631 bn defense budget
The US Senate unanimously passed the Pentagon’s 2013 budget, despite a political impasse over debt reduction that could see huge cuts to military spending next year. After months of negotiations,...
View ArticleAbortion For Military Rape Victims Amendment Passes Senate
In a historic bipartisan vote on Tuesday, the Senate passed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's (D-N.H.) amendment to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that would extend abortion insurance coverage to...
View ArticleTate Watkins on How Haiti Highlights the Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy
It's no secret that much U.S. aid to Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquake hasn't been spent effectively. An Associated Press report from earlier this summer noted that “the fruits of an...
View ArticlePresidential Reorganization Authority, and More from CRS
Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made available to the public include the following. Presidential Reorganization Authority: History, Recent...
View ArticleSupreme Court asked to strike down NDAA’s indefinite detention clause
The U.S. Supreme Court building (AFP Photo / Chip Somodevilla)The US Supreme Court has been asked to step in and make sure the military cannot detain US citizens indefinitely without charge or trial as...
View ArticleNDAA Indefinite Detention Provision Mysteriously Stripped From Bill
WASHINGTON -- Congress stripped a provision Tuesday from a defense bill that aimed to shield Americans from the possibility of being imprisoned indefinitely without trial by the military. The provision...
View ArticleNDAA 2013 – Indefinite detention without trial is back
Members of the group "Witness Against Torture" dressed in orange prison jumpsuits protest against the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.(Reuters / Larry...
View ArticleCommittee vote clears way for abortion care coverage for servicewomen
For the first time on Tuesday, a bipartisan conference committee agreed to include an amendment providing abortion coverage for military rape survivors in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)....
View ArticleU.S. House approves sweeping $633 billion defense spending bill
The US House passed a $633 billion defense authorization bill that includes fresh sanctions against Iran and funds the war in Afghanistan, while offering compromise language on military detention of US...
View ArticleNDAA Passes House, Senate By Wide Margins, Amicus Brief Filed by Descendants...
While the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act by a comfortable 315-107 margin and the Senate by a margin of 81-14, the controversial provision which allows for the indefinite detention...
View ArticleRand Paul: Indefinite Detention, Martial Law And The NDAA
; (RT) The controversial NDAA bill, which allows for the indefinite detention of US citizens, was approved by the Senate despite White House threats to veto the legislation. Republican Senator Rand...
View ArticleObama prepares to ignore NDAA provisions blocking Guantanamo closure
President Barack Obama appears ready to ignore key provisions of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aim to block him from closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba,...
View ArticleAnonymous – #Operation Unite
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View ArticleGitmo-go-round: No solution in sight on 11th Guantanamo anniversary
Gitmo-go-round: No solution in sight on 11th Guantanamo anniversaryGet short URLLink copied to clipboardemail story to a friendprint versionPublished: 11 January, 2013, 16:05 TAGS:Anniversary, Obama,...
View Article‘US strikes China nuclear match in Asia-Pacific powderkeg’
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View ArticleMilitary Suicides Set Record, Exceed Afghanistan Combat Deaths
Military deaths by suicide have exceeded combats deaths three of the last four years. Source: media.komonews.com According to a report from the Associated Press, deaths by suicide in the military hit a...
View ArticleNDAA is back in court
While CIA director nominee John Brennan faces a grilling at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday over the legal reasoning behind Obama's "kill lists," another sprawling stain on the Obama...
View ArticleDick Cheney Latest, Highest Profile Bush Administration Official to Support...
Cherie A. Thurlby / Foter.com / Public domainFormer Vice President Dick Cheney became the highest profile Bush Administration official to come out in support of President Obama’s drone targeted...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Not So Hot as Non-Interventionist, American Conservative Explains
In an article on the Hagel confirmation, “the most depressing episode in the Republican foreign-policy debate since George W. Bush was president,” The American Conservative asks whether there might be...
View ArticleObama’s Wars in Africa: 100 Military Personnel in Niger Edition
President Obama sent about 100 U.S. military personnel to Niger to support the French mission to root out Islamists in Mali, of which he informed Congress today. In his State of the Union address last...
View ArticleYRV Declares War on Anonymous for their terrorist actions in attempting to...
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View ArticleRand Paul: Not One Penny To Countries That Burn Our Flag
At the opening of CPAC 2013, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) picked up where he left off in his 13 hour filibuster last week. … Read More
View ArticleGitmo press agent admits 21 inmates taking part in growing hunger strike
Navy Capt. Robert Durand added that no one was in immediatedanger from the hunger strike.The remark came just days after Durand downplayed the situation,denying that it was “a widespread phenomenon,...
View ArticleCongressmen Demand DHS Explain 1.6 Billion Bullets Purchase
Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ) has come out and demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explain why the Department of Homeland Security has been engaging in huge amounts of...
View ArticleIntelligence Budget Requests for 2014 Disclosed
Some $4 billion is being cut from the National Intelligence Program this year as a result of sequestration, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee at a...
View ArticleBillions of US tax dollars potentially funding Afghan terrorism – report
The “alarming” findings were greeted with calls for urgent action to mend the weak links in US regulations.The report, titled ‘Contracting with the Enemy’ and published by the Special Inspector...
View ArticleMontana’s Final Vote to Pass Anti-NDAA Bill Might Override Governor Veto
The momentum is clearly swinging in favor of restoring liberty, with dozens of states and local governments proposing legislation to thwart federal intrusion and tyranny. … Read More
View ArticleCalifornia Liberty Preservation Act Passes Committee 6-0 to Nullify the NDAA
Now California has taken a much-needed step toward rebuking federal overreach. And, once again, the protections afforded by the Liberty Preservation Act are seeing support from a wide spectrum of...
View ArticleNDAA 2014: Congress to fund Pentagon’s ‘War Machine’
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View ArticleNDAA debate: US programming the war machine
Not only does the National Defense Authorization Act establish funding levels for the various agencies in charge of our national defense, but it also sets the guidelines under which that money will be...
View ArticleIn Guantanamo, fine words are no substitute for freedom
Until six weeks ago, the majority of prisoners were spending most of their time communally, in Camp Six of the prison, where they were able to watch TV and would have seen President Obama's speech....
View ArticleOne-quarter of Gitmo prisoners now being force-fed
The latest press release from the facility reported the rise in the number of inmates receiving enteral feeds, up from the previous 39. The report also claims that the four prisoners currently...
View ArticleFind the FEMA Camp Nearest You
The evidence that we the people, are at risk of being placed under martial law, and losing all of our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution is overwhelming. … Read More
View Article2014 NDAA Amendment #FAILS
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View ArticleHouse Passes Ban on Drone Strikes Against US Citizens
However, the amendment does contain an exception for Americans "actively engaged in combat against the United States". … Read More
View ArticleUS ends ban on ‘domestic propaganda’
Until earlier this month, a longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated outlets...
View ArticleWho does the US call an enemy? White House won’t say
So is the White House really refusing to say who can be targeted by drone strikes and blown to smithereens? Essentially, yes. ProPublica journalist Cora Currier explored the president’s remark about...
View ArticleGermany sent helicopter to snoop for NSA spy equipment at US consulate
The helicopter flew twice over the consulate - just 60 meters above the building - as German staff took high resolution photographs of potential surveillance equipment on the roof. No listening posts...
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