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Innocent Googling Brings Cops To The Doorstep- NSA Spying In Action (Video)
By Susan Duclos As Barack Obama defends the Prism program which taps into the data of large tech companies like Apple, Google, Skype Verizon and others, what he cannot defend is the appearance of six members of a joint task force showing up on a couple's doorstep because they innocently searched for items they needed in their households. Meet Michele Catalano, who needed a pressure cooker and her husband who, unbeknownst to her, was Googling backpacks, and a 20 year-old news junkie of a son who followed the Boston Marathon Bombing story, as almost every other American was doing at the time. These searches and clicking of story links, ended up being looked at by someone who then put their name onto a potential terrorist list, and resulted in six agents from the joint terrorism task force knocking on their door. In Michele's own words from her blog: At about 9:00 am, my husband, who happened to be home yesterday, was sitting in the living room with our two dogs when he heard a couple of cars pull up outside.
Devastating Military Cuts Endanger Readiness--While Obama Bypasses Congress With Covert Action
by Monica Davis The ongoing budget battles between Congress and the White House endangers readiness, overextends old planes and equipment and creates a dangerous, expensive reliance on military contractors and intilligence agences with allegedly alternative sources of revenue. The miitary, that is the entities which survive at the behest of Congressional funding, are at a distince disadvantage, when covert agencies utilize off the books, covert sources of funding. On the other hand, those pesky little spies in the CIA can allegedly violate international law, where the military can not. And, President Barack Obama is using the CIA to bypass international law and UN restrictions, just like his predecessors.
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