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  By • Mar 30th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Government Waste, Homeland Security, Politics, Secrecy

Eloise Lee | Mar. 28, 2012, 11:31 AM The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an “indefinite delivery” of an “indefinite quantity” of .40 caliber ammunition from defense contractor ATK.  U.S. agents will receive a maximum of 450 million rounds over five years, according to a press release on [...]

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  By • Sep 5th, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Cyber War, Ethics, International Relations, Politics, Secrecy

By MICHAEL WINES Published: September 4, 2011 BEIJING — This capital city’s skies were clogged with pollution, as is often the case, and China’s government was concerned. So it summoned officials of the American Embassy here to a meeting. But the session had nothing to do with hazy skies. Rather, Chinese officials were peeved that [...]

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  By • Sep 3rd, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, International Relations, Politics, Secrecy

By Andy McSmith Saturday, 3 September 2011 WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange was at the centre of another political storm yesterday after more than 251,000 US diplomatic cables were published in their original form on the internet for anyone to read.  No attempt was made to redact the cables to protect whistleblowers or other innocent people [...]

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  By • Jul 7th, 2011 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Ethics, Government Waste, Opinion, Politics, Presidency, Secrecy

July 7, 2011 By William Sullivan Barack Obama, after extending the Bush-era tax cuts in the lame duck session last year against his wishes, is seeking to redeem himself by launching an all new (but oh-so-familiar) assault upon wealthy Americans.  And this time, in his desperation, the attacks are all the more venomous, and concentrated [...]

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  By • Sep 28th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Ethics, Government Waste, Politics, Secrecy

The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop mailing instructions and paper forms for annual income tax returns, saving the agency about $10 million a year as more Americans are filing online. Sep 28, 2010 CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/28/politics/washingtonpost/main6906850.shtml?tag=stack Social Bookmarking

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  By • Jul 14th, 2010 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Homeland Security, Intelligence, International Relations, National Defense, Politics, Secrecy

Public trial of 10 Russian agents could have led to revelations By Bill Gertz 9:10 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 2010 The Obama administration’s rapid release of 10 Russian intelligence officers removed the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to [...]

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  By • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Homeland Security, Politics, Secrecy, War on Terror

Sept 22, 2009 By Ben Conery (Contact) and Valerie Richardson (Contact) The FBI’s arrest of three men on charges of lying to investigators came after the probe of a possible terrorism plot was revealed to its target, a sequence that led terrorism scholars to describe it as a blown case and at least one of [...]

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