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Spooks in the classroom
The government’s plan for teachers to monitor their pupils for signs of extremism stifles debate and encourages secrecy Francis Gilbert | Of all the roles I thought I might play as a classroom teacher,
Read More »New Documents Reveal Unlawful Guantanamo Procedures Were Also Applied On American Soil
Market Watch | According to newly released military documents, the Navy applied lawless Guantanamo protocols in detention facilities on American soil. The documents, which include regular emails between brig officers and others in the
Read More »Md. Police Put Activists’ Names On Terror Lists – Surveillance’s Reach Revealed
By Lisa Rein | The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief
Read More »Amnesty accuses Spain of allowing CIA flights to Guantanamo
Madrid – The human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused the Spanish government of not having tried to prevent US flights transporting terrorist suspects to illegal detention centres across Spanish airspace. At
Read More »Privacy groups praise bill curbing warrantless laptop searches
By Jaikumar Vijayan | Privacy and civil rights groups are welcoming legislation that proposes tough new standards for conducting searches of laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders. The legislation, called the Travelers’
Read More »DNA finger printing could soon reveal your surname
By Richard Alleyne | The laboratory which invented genetic fingerprinting believes the same technique could be refined to reveal the surnames of men. A study of more than 2,500 men bearing over five hundred
Read More »Seven Years After 9/11, Spies Finally Forced to Share
By Noah Shachtman – WIred |The country’s spy agencies famously failed to share information before 9/11. It only took seven years. But now, the nation’s spooks and security bureaucrats will have to start swapping
Read More »Former officials say Iran helped on al-Qaida
By BARRY SCHWEID | In an effort to help the United States counter al-Qaida after the 9/11 attack, Iran rounded up hundreds of Arabs who had crossed the border from Afghanistan, expelled many of
Read More »Documents say detainee near insanity
AP | A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents
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