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U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap
a Vast Database of Citizens
Wall Street Journal, by Julia Angwin
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/13/2012 2:17:56 PM
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| Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens—even people suspected of no crime. Not everyone was on board. "This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public," Mary Ellen Callahan, chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, argued in the meeting, according to people familiar with the discussions. A week later, the attorney general signed the changes into effect.
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Comments:
Note that the attorney general signed this into effect. Congress was not involved. I weep for our country.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
august9, 12/13/2012 2:52:10 PM (No. 9063832)
.......they know when you are sleeping....they know when you´re awake....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 12/13/2012 3:02:45 PM (No. 9063842)
What did they find out about Roberts?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma, 12/13/2012 3:25:49 PM (No. 9063867)
is obama in the database...oh wait..article says citizens....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
realrep, 12/13/2012 3:34:11 PM (No. 9063881)
Oh yeah, anyone who is a registered Republican is bound to be regulated and taxed more to pay for the bureaucrats who watch us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 12/13/2012 3:40:48 PM (No. 9063894)
This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public."
- Mary Ellen Callahan, of the Obama Department of Homeland Security (sic)
Yes, Mary Ellen, most of us have noted that change. We also note that it began on January 20, 2009.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/13/2012 3:42:34 PM (No. 9063898)
I am so glad the federal government is on the case ... hold on, there´s someone at the door ...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/13/2012 3:44:00 PM (No. 9063901)
In my crystal ball I see a massive federal agency staffed by thousands of large round women of color. Little or no work is being done, but work is not the object. This is a unionized work free smoke place, just a jobs program for minorities.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
skywarrior, 12/13/2012 4:03:16 PM (No. 9063944)
Hmmm...lemme see:
Veteran? Check
Registered Gun Owner? Check
White Male? Check
Republican? Check
Live in South? Check
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Terrorist? Must be, all the important boxes were checked.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav, 12/13/2012 4:09:52 PM (No. 9063961)
Article notes that this has been in place for EIGHT YEARS. Now lemme see.... Zippy has been in office four years...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
obdurate, 12/13/2012 5:41:18 PM (No. 9064137)
Can you say Stasi or KGB? I can: Stasi or KGB!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 12/13/2012 9:32:46 PM (No. 9064434)
Just think, we elect and actually pay people to spy on us, and remove our constitutional liberties.
I want my old America back....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
eorsc, 12/13/2012 9:58:21 PM (No. 9064477)
Start with the illegals who are just embedded terrorists. Oh-I forgot. Obama outlawed the use of the word terrorist, especially of the Islamist kind. His kind of people you know.
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Jason Richwine, the Harvard PhD graduate who co-authored the Heritage Foundation’s controversial report on the costs of amnesty, resigned his position at the venerable conservative think tank Friday. “It is our long-standing policy not to discuss internal personnel matters,” Heritage Foundation Vice President of Communications Michael Gonzalez tells The Washington Examiner. Richwine first joined the Heritage Foundation in 2010 after earning his doctorate in public policy in 2009 from Harvard University while on an American Enterprise Institute dissertation fellowship. Richwine’s Harvard dissertation asserted that, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites,
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jeremy Herb
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Washington Times, by Sen. Rand Paul
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 12:40:56 PM
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When I took Hillary Rodham Clinton to task in January for the mishandling of security in Benghazi, Libya, I told her that if I had been president at the time, I would have relieved her of her post. Some politicians and pundits took offense at my line of questioning. During those hearings, I reminded Mrs. Clinton that multiple requests were sent to the State Department asking for increased security measures. I asked if she had read the cables from Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens asking for increased security. She replied that she was busy and had not read them.
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Exclusive: Benghazi Talking
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ABC News, by Jonathan Carl
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/10/2013 6:54:20 AM
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When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the document were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensive edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
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She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers
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"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."
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Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
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Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
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Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
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Business Insider, by Jay Yarow
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/9/2013 1:19:00 PM
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John McCain is going to release a bill that would dismantle cable as it´s currently constructed, Brenden Sasso at The Hill reports. The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called "à la carte programming," and it´s long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. McCain tried to introduce similar legislation in 2006 and it went nowhere.
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Benghazi Eight Months Later
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National Review Online, by Ted Cruz
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/8/2013 8:09:28 PM
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On September 11, 2012, terrorists attacked our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered four Americans, including our ambassador. Eight months later, we have learned some of what happened, but many questions remain.(Snip)What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House.
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Report: Muslim cleric invited
to pray over fallen SEALs
damns them during service
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Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
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Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 5/9/2013 6:23:57 PM
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The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.” In addition to blasting the Obama administration for the mission and for an official investigation they deemed a cover-up, the families complained that “military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen
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IRS Apologizes for Targeting
Conservative Groups
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election
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