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Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 20, 2013 39 Comments
The fallout of NSA surveillance revelations continues to produce the closings of many services and outlets in the name of privacy.  After the closure of encrypted email service provider Lavabit and Silent Circle’s shuttering of its Silent Mail product, another valuable tool has decided to...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 20, 2013 15 Comments
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger revealed Monday that security experts with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) entered the Guardian’s building weeks ago and oversaw the destruction of hard drives containing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In a post published at The Guardian,...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 20, 2013 5 Comments
San Diegans have been gathering together for a number of events with Mayor Bob Filner as their central theme. However, the messages for Filner, who has now been accused by 16 women publicly of sexual harassment,  have been strikingly different. This past Sunday, hundreds gathered...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 18, 2013 21 Comments
The partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained and questioned for nine hours on Sunday at Heathrow airport in London as he was returning home to Rio de Janeiro.  Authorities ultimately released him, but not before confiscating several pieces of his electronics equipment. From...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 18, 2013 36 Comments
We’ll be covering the second degree murder trial of Merritt Landry, who was charged with second degree attempted murder for his shooting 14-year-old Marshall Coulter (described as a “professional thief” by his brother in news reports). Coulter had scaled a spiked metal fence to enter...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 16, 2013 11 Comments
In an online video forum hosted by the transparency organization OurSay.org before a live studio audience in Australia on Friday, Campus Reform editor-in-chief Josiah Ryan asked Wikileaks founder Julian Assange his thoughts about Matt Drudge and Rand Paul. Assange praised Drudge for breaking down self...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2013 6 Comments
We predicted this would happen when Hezbollah intervened on behalf of Assad in Syria, including the conquest of Qusayr, and the ongoing battles in Homs and Aleppo. Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, openly bragged that Hezbollah was in Syria to the bitter end. The death toll...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2013 9 Comments
NOTE – This post will be updated throughout the day, with “breaking” news at the top, other updates below, and the live streams at the bottom: BREAKING – OBAMA STATEMENT – Condemns violence, cancels joint military exercise, but no aid cutoff: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking...
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