Fighting To Uncover Secrets Of the Cold War Surveillance State
On February 26, 1991, the FBI sent agents to “conduct surveillance” and “collect literature” at a “demonstration against the US policy in the Middle East.”
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Twenty Years In A Security State: After Failing To Stop 9/11 Attacks, FBI Invented Terrorists
"[W]e try to identify plots in the earliest stages possible because we don’t know what we don’t know about a terrorism plot," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared, referring to the FBI.
The PATRIOT Act And The Whistleblowers Who Challenged Mass Surveillance After 9/11
Mark Klein, former AT&T technician who blew the whistle on NSA warrantless
wiretapping (Photo: insunlight
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[Editor's Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American
security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter
FBI Seized Legally Privileged Materials From Julian Assange After Arrest In Ecuador Embassy
"One record of [Assange’s] entire archive” was effectively purloined, and without it, attorney Gareth Peirce mentioned it has made putting together a defense in his extradition case more difficult.