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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 12, 2013 23 Comments
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked details about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program to the press, gave an exclusive interview Wednesday to the South China Morning Post. Through a series of articles that have been staggered throughout the day, Snowden tells the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 11, 2013 12 Comments
The ACLU has just filed a lawsuit challenging several in the Obama administration over its indiscriminate scooping up of phone records. From the ACLU’s website: In the wake of the past week’s revelations about the NSA’s unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, today the ACLU...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 11, 2013 27 Comments
Edward Snowden, the now-former NSA contractor who leaked secret documents to The Washington Post and the Guardian, said he didn’t want to become the story.  “I don’t want public attention because I don’t want the story to be about me. I want it to be...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 06, 2013 23 Comments
The Zimmerman court is engaged in a pretrial Frye hearing that will decide, in part, whether the prosecution’s expert witnesses can testify about their analysis of an audio recording of the 911 call made by Witness #11, which ended up accidentally capturing the last moments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2013 34 Comments
You know the story. The government is grabbing all your phone records.  In a previously secret order obtained by Obama: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 05, 2013 28 Comments
Hey folks, As the Professor announced this past Sunday, I will be covering the Zimmerman trial (starting Monday, June 10) nearly-live right here on Legal Insurrection.  My commitment is to provide reality-based analysis, without the speculation, spin, and snark we’ve seen too much of already....

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 30, 2013 26 Comments
It’s always interesting to watch the contortionists at MSNBC when it comes to defending the actions of the Obama administration. Mediaite has posted video of a segment from Martin Bashir’s program, in which a panel discusses the language used in the FBI affidavit pertaining to...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 30, 2013 12 Comments
The Al Qaeda magazine, Inspire, is celebrating the Boston Marathon bombings and mocking US security in its current issue, while insinuating unavoidable future attacks on Americans. From the NY Post: Inspire, known as the Vanity Fair of terrorism, also tried to parlay recent ricin-laced letters...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 28, 2013 8 Comments
Long saga of Jeremy Hammond, self-described anarchist, comes to an end. Jeremy Hammond, a notorious hacker and anarchist from the Chicago area, pleaded guilty this morning to hacking charges in a New York courtroom under the terms of a plea agreement. Hammond was initially charged in...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 21, 2013 13 Comments
As we now know, the DOJ targeted James Rosen when it pursued a search warrant in connection with an alleged leak from State Department adviser, Stephen Kim.  The long and short of it is, Kim told Rosen things, and as a reporter, Rosen printed them....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2013 28 Comments
Of all the groups singled out by the IRS, True the Vote seemed to get extra special treatment, in a bad way: True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht doesn’t want to believe the federal government singled her out. But… “These are odd days,” she said....
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