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Mandy Nagy

Mandy Nagy (aka "Liberty Chick") was an investigative writer and researcher. She primarily covered the institutional left, protest movements, hacking and cybercrime, and technology. After suffering a serious stroke in September 2014, Mandy no longer was able to work at Legal Insurrection, but she's always on our minds and in our hearts. For more information, see here.

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 24, 2013 53 Comments

It's very rare that I stand in 100% agreement (or any percent agreement) with something written by the NY Times editorial board.  But after yesterday's newly introduced sexting chronicles of Anthony Weiner - aka (allegedly) "Carlos Danger" - the board took to publishing a scathing...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 23, 2013 12 Comments

Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Sean Murphy was placed on restricted duty today, after he released photos of the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to a magazine in protest of the recent Rolling Stone cover. From Boston Magazine: Sgt. Sean P. Murphy, the 25-year veteran of...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 23, 2013 51 Comments

Look out, Anthony Weiner's back and in charge.  This time (allegedly) as "Carlos Danger." New lewd messages and photos have emerged from an anonymous source, and they are purported to have been sent by Weiner, who is now running for NYC mayor. The website The Dirty posted...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 22, 2013 4 Comments

Demolition can move forward in Taksim Square's Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, according to an administrative court's ruling. From Hurriyet Daily News: An Istanbul administrative court has unanimously overturned a lower court’s stay of order ruling on planned construction on Istanbul’s Gezi Park, allowing the demolition of...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 21, 2013 5 Comments

The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports the Assad regime, claims it has hacked the database server of messaging and social networking service, Tango. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA12/status/358355124751568896 The group posted the following message to its website Friday: The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Tango app (video/text messages...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 20, 2013 76 Comments

The push for an economic boycott of Florida has ratcheted up in recent days, with some members of the Congressional Black Caucus now publicly supporting the idea of such an action.  The underlying target of their ire?  Stand Your Ground laws, of course. From The Hill: A...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 166 Comments
President Obama surprised reporters by showing up to today's White House press briefing, where he made remarks about the Zimmerman case and on the Stand Your Ground law. National Journal was able to capture some of the key quotes:
While the president began by commending the judge in the case as "professional" and the jurors as "properly instructed," he brought the case into the much broader context of race in America. "When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said this could've been my son. Another way of saying that is, a Trayvon Martin could've been me 35 years ago. When you think about why in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away." He also said that "there are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping at a department store. That includes me." The same goes for African American men who have heard "locks click on the doors of cars," or seen a "woman clutching her purse nervously" in an elevator. The president also said that "there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws" -- from the death penalty to drug laws. He continued (with our emphasis): "Folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys. But they get frustrated that they feel that there's no context for them, that that context is being denied. And that all contributes to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that from top to bottom both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 10 Comments

NSA head General Keith Alexander said at a forum earlier this week that the agency is taking steps to insure that a breach of its systems like the one committed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor employed through Booz Allen Hamilton, cannot occur again. ...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 17 Comments

Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace in 2008 after a prostitution scandal, is now running for the position of NYC Comptroller.  As Business Insider points out, he's since begun a huge national media tour and Thursday wasn't an especially good day for...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 19, 2013 20 Comments

One Massachusetts State Police officer is speaking out in angry opposition to Rolling Stone's glamorization of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And he's doing so through photos. [caption id="attachment_59370" align="alignnone" width="575"] Photo credit: Sean Murphy. Published at http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/18/tsarnaev/[/caption] From Boston Magazine: Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 56 Comments

In case you missed it, WOFL, the local FOX affiliate station (FOX35) in Orlando, Florida did an exclusive interview with alternate juror E54 from the George Zimmerman trial.  Sean Hannity aired segments on his Wednesday evening program. Anonymous juror E54 told WOFL's Valerie Boey that he agrees with the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 15 Comments

Bradley Manning will face the charge of "aiding the enemy," after a military judge ruled today that the charge will not be dropped.  Defense attorneys for Manning had earlier filed a motion for this and other charges to be dismissed, while human rights groups also...

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