Posting History for First and Fourth
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| Want to know what can go wrong when the government collects data on you?
Here's an instructive look at what can happen when the government compiles massive amounts of personal data from millions ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 241 | 134 | - | - |
| Dick Durbin: Secret FISA court 'fixed,' 'loaded' Sen. Dick Durbin
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a bright idea for addressing one problem with the out-of-control surveillance state: reform the secret FISA court ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/29/2013 | 206 | 134 | 3 | 13 |
| Songs In the Key of Resistance: Dueling Sing Alongs, Guns, Trombones, and American Resilience. I sit on the hard marble floor of the elegant Wisconsin State Capitol building, listening to America The Beautiful, God Bless America and other "patriotic" songs being sung by about 50 rightwing ... |
noise of rain | 07/30/2013 | 74 | 134 | 6 | - |
| Fears of NSA surveillance hurting the U.S. cloud computing industry By Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Thursday, August 8, 2013 18:49 EDT American technology businesses fear they could lose between $21.5bn and $35bn in cloud computing contracts worldwide over the next ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 08/08/2013 | 247 | 129 | 1 | - |
| An NSA-proof operating system. Yes, for real. Let's start here: do you use Windows? Or an Apple operating system on your computer? You're hosed. The NSA owns you. They own every thought, all your dreams and aspirations. They own your ... |
Jaime Frontero | 07/13/2013 | 171 | 126 | 30 | - |
| Patriot acts National Security Operations Center
In the days before the House of Representatives voted on whether or ... |
Laurence Lewis | 08/04/2013 | 289 | 125 | 8 | 11 |
| How Hollywood sold America Total Information Awareness These guys would never violate the 4th amendment unless it was to keep us safe right?
In America people like to think of their hero's as being unimpeachable in character and motivations. That these ... |
Tool | 07/07/2013 | 113 | 124 | - | - |
| PBS Newshour Gets Played By NSA Lawyers The other night, to it's credit, the PBS Newshour had NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice on for an interview segment, titled, "NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic ... |
joe shikspack | 08/05/2013 | 101 | 121 | 2 | - |
| The NSA's Rank Incompetence ALMOST Overshadows its Authoritarian Agenda Egregious constitutional violations aside, highlighting the sheer level of incompetence and malfeasance at the NSA will ensure that congressional reform will indeed happen.
The U.S. government's ... |
markthshark | 08/28/2013 | 77 | 119 | 2 | - |
| Defund the NSA - ACTION (Now!)
Caucus Diary
This is a Caucus diary, a community diary created by The Caucus Project group at DailyKos.
The goal of this diary is not to debate the policy position of the diarist; it is for ... |
joanneleon | 07/23/2013 | 177 | 117 | 2 | - |
| Obama: ‘We don’t have a domestic spying program’ Raw Story
The President was on the Jay Leno show last night and was provided an opportunity to assure Americans that they are not being 'spied upon'. What we do have are some mechanisms where we ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 08/07/2013 | 354 | 117 | 1 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #13: What happens now? As many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets of downtown Raleigh to protest the repressive bills that made their way through the NC General Assembly this legislative session. Protesters wore red ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/31/2013 | 66 | 115 | 3 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can make No Fly Zones Let me start this diary by saying, this is the kind shit that keeps me up at night. Contemplating the outcomes of the subject explored in this diary scares me. It causes me to lose hope for the ... |
GreenMother | 07/08/2013 | 94 | 113 | 16 | - |
| NSA: u r pwnd It seems that our great protector the NSA is in the texting business in a very big way.
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
The National Security Agency has ... |
Richard Lyon | 01/16/2014 | 89 | 109 | 1 | - |
| Dream Defenders Go After Rick Scott & Co., Legally and Peacefully Using a clever and little-known tactic of calling for a Special Session, the Dream Defenders forced pro-Scott legislators to take sides. Who are the Dream Defenders? What have they done so far?
... |
nancyjones | 08/18/2013 | 65 | 98 | 1 | - |
| Introducing a new DKos Group: The First and the Fourth Our First Amendment is under siege and our 4th Amendment rights have been forced into providing lapdances in clandestine VIP rooms. Since the eruption of the Snowden-NSA-spying issue/scandal/... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/06/2013 | 90 | 96 | 3 | - |
| Julian Assange Spills the Beans --> PRISM "Facebook, in particular, is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, um, here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names ... |
New Minas | 07/08/2013 | 200 | 89 | 3 | - |
| American Sharia, #1: Louisiana begins process to make Bible state's official book I wish this was snark. From nola.com : Legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of Louisiana cleared the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs with a ... |
Dave in Northridge | 04/11/2014 | 74 | 85 | - | - |
| Coleen Rowley has questions for James Comey If you do not remember who Coleen Rowley is, she was an FBI Special Agent and Lawyer in Minneapolis, where she served as chief legal advisor, who became well known because of the paper she wrote for ... |
teacherken | 07/09/2013 | 24 | 84 | 2 | - |
| This Thanksgiving Americans Prepare For a New War - A War on the Homeless. Have no doubt about it. It's war, and a new front has opened in Los Angeles, as the New York Times reported yesterday :
Facing an uproar from homeowners, two members of the Los Angeles City ... |
jpmassar | 11/28/2013 | 23 | 81 | 1 | - |
| Takeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.
Those of us not at the ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/24/2013 | 17 | 72 | 1 | - |
| New suit challenges NSA surveillance
A large coalition of religious groups, privacy advocates, free speech, human rights and environmental organizations have joined with other groups in the Electronic Frontiers Foundation'... |
Joan McCarter | 07/17/2013 | 47 | 71 | 1 | - |
| Time To Unite Against NSA Abuses: A Proposal We are entering a very dangerous period in history. Our national security is now firmly in the hands of for-profit private corporations and their lackeys in government. They have built a veritable ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/11/2013 | 34 | 70 | 3 | - |
| FISA Court: "To date, no electronic communications provider has challenged a 702 directive" See FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton's letter in response to queries from Senate Judiciary Committee Chariman Patrick Leahy .
The FISA court is described as working much as described in my ... |
Armando | 07/29/2013 | 82 | 66 | - | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #11: 101 unique arrests, things heat up Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below.
Amid sweltering ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/16/2013 | 31 | 65 | - | - |
| Massive protest at California Chevron refinery a show of movement strength This weekend, Oil Change International’s newest campaigner and I joined dozens of dedicated community leaders, climate movement allies and friends, and a couple thousand new friends in a march to ... |
dturnbull | 08/06/2013 | 26 | 63 | 2 | - |
| Bloomberg Editorial Board calls for a repeat of the Church Committee First I have to get this off my chest. I am pissed. If one more person tells me to or even implies that I should sit down and STFU I'm not likely to deal with them in a generous manner.
I feel ... |
Just Bob | 08/18/2013 | 92 | 63 | 1 | - |
| One Nation Under Borg The source is a quick read so I encourage everyone to take a look . Just a teaser here:
DARPA insists that Atlas is not being designed for adversarial military tasks, but for humanitarian reasons—... |
Words In Action | 07/24/2013 | 180 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Heroes of the Day Sing Truth To Power Closing down the building singing truth to power for an hour, after consecutive weekday noon-hour Solidarity Sing Along #624, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, day #4 of the illegal mass arrests of peaceably ... |
Wisco Wherls | 07/31/2013 | 19 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Bradley Manning the war on whistleblowers continues Standing up for the principle of righteousness in the face of adversity is a standard rarely encountered. Knowing a crime was committed Manning tried through inside channels to do the right thing. ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/10/2013 | 80 | 60 | 1 | - |
| Anatomy of a Murder: The Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and Religious Liberty
What would you do if you found out that a shocking murder plot was unfolding silently? What if this wasn’t just any murder, but the premeditated and carefully plotted unfolding of a terrifying ... |
Mikey Weinstein | 04/25/2014 | 11 | 50 | - | - |
| Obama meets with key lawmakers on NSA revelations, vows reforms
The debate between privacy and national security that President Obama has said he welcomes has begun, with ... |
Joan McCarter | 08/02/2013 | 144 | 47 | 1 | 16 |
| NSA Extends Surveillance Program NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/19/2013 | 102 | 46 | 1 | - |
| A giant sucking sound
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MattWuerker | 07/25/2013 | 39 | 44 | 2 | - |
| Big Data and Big Brother The controversies surrounding the revelations about the NSA are bringing a lot of background information about recent developments in technology onto the radar screen. 20 years ago when internet ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/15/2013 | 79 | 42 | 1 | - |
| Take 2. Taking The Freeway. Taking It Down as Oakland Rises Up For Trayvon Martin. At about 7:30 PM this evening, after one of the most idiotic manuevers by the Oakland Police I have yet seen, Trayvon Martin verdict protesters went up the down ramp onto an already backed up I880, ... |
jpmassar | 07/16/2013 | 23 | 40 | - | - |
| All Things Bookstore: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the “Howl” Trial Booksellers can become political. A good example of that comes from San Fransico in the 1950s when Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the proprietor of the City Lights Bookstore (which is still very much there ... |
Dave in Northridge | 10/15/2013 | 38 | 40 | - | - |
| Gun Search warrant used for confiscating journalist's files From here .
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist's confidential files. The reporter had written a series of articles critical ... |
ffour | 10/25/2013 | 20 | 38 | 1 | - |
| Obama pondering fate of NSA's bulk data collection | Joan McCarter | 01/09/2014 | 26 | 37 | - | 6 |
| All Access Imagine
A complete file of your medical records.
A complete file of your banking records
A complete record of your credit card transactions
A complete record of all your internet activity
A ... |
LaFeminista | 07/12/2013 | 80 | 36 | 1 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can Declare a No Fly Zone Part II So the last diary was very very long.
I could have cut it up into pieces, but I figured it was just better to put that out and explain it as best as I was able, the disturbing material I am reading. |
GreenMother | 07/11/2013 | 35 | 35 | 2 | - |
| Dream Defenders Occupy Florida's Capitol - Day Eight They're still at it and they aren't going away. The Dream Defenders and their supporters have been occupying the capitol building in Tallahassee, FL since the Tuesday after George Zimmerman was ... |
nancyjones | 07/23/2013 | 21 | 35 | - | - |
| NSA and more lying to the courts Oops:
The spying agency crossed referenced a selected list of some 16,000 phone numbers against databases which contained millions of records, thus violating the law, two senior intelligence ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 09/10/2013 | 41 | 33 | 4 | - |
| Harry Belafonte Visits the Dream Defenders WE FIGHT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR GENERATION BY DIRECTLY CONFRONTING THE SOURCES, SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF IT.
The Dream Defenders are in their 12th day of standing their ground in the offices ... |
JoanMar | 07/28/2013 | 21 | 31 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Fixing the nation's spying laws We begin today's abbreviated pundit roundup with an editorial from The New York Times :
As Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times on Sunday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 07/09/2013 | 65 | 30 | - | - |
| “Todd Gitlin, Are ‘Intelligence’ and Instigation Running Riot?” Do you want to maintain your constitutional rights to engage in unhindered social protest against Keystone XL, the destruction of our climate, our overwhelming surveillance state, the veritable ... |
bobswern | 07/09/2013 | 14 | 29 | - | - |
| Republicans Bum Rush the democratic process and lay siege to your future. This originated as a comment in LaFeminista's We're not amused post from yesterday. I was surprised by the reaction and elected to post it as a diary, fleshed out and spell-corrected.
In this ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/27/2013 | 17 | 28 | - | - |
| The answer to the NSA and the FISA court: James Otis, "On the Writs of Assistance," February 1761 MAY it please your Honors : I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. I have accordingly considered it, and ... |
Superskepticalman | 07/09/2013 | 9 | 26 | 4 | - |
| Religious Exemptions: The First and the Fourteenth This is the first of what I think will be three diaries that directly resulted from my experience at NN 14. Religious exemptions was identified as one of the five major post-marriage issues for the ... |
Dave in Northridge | 08/04/2014 | 41 | 25 | - | - |
| Charlotte Moral Monday 8/19: Fighting for the soul of NC In just two days, Charlotte will host Moral Monday to protest the policies of Gov. Pat McCrory and NC's Republican-controlled General Assembly.
“We are not going to let the so-called religious ... |
SteelerGrrl | 08/17/2013 | 8 | 24 | 1 | - |
| White House sues Sprint for overcharging on compliance with federal phone taps heh. The Obama administration filed a suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Monday, alleging that Sprint overcharged the government $21 million for expenses it incurred while complying ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/03/2014 | 23 | 24 | 1 | - |
| Imagine a smiling man, with only a few questions If you want a vision of the future, imagine a smiling man. In body Armor. With A weapon held at the low ready. Who only wants you to answer a few questions.
He's not threatening you, at ... |
detroitmechworks | 07/08/2013 | 21 | 23 | - | - |
| I'm old enough to remember "entrapment". I'm afraid that for younger cohorts of our citizenry the term "predisposition" is, largely, just another fancy word. For others of us, the connection to the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights/... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 13 | 21 | 1 | - |
| White house warning russia to not give Snowden a propaganda platform Hi,
I don't write too often here, but I should really do it more often.
Living outside the US I can often see things that don't get much attention in the states and maybe a different reflection of ... |
tyfon | 07/14/2013 | 26 | 19 | - | - |
| Warrior Cops--The New Men in Black If you hear someone banging on your door at about three in the morning, yelling, POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT. It’s unlikely you will be able to get up, put on something decent and get to the door ... |
ATexican | 07/20/2013 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders and The Special Session Is Happnin NOW, y'all Pay attention.
The Dream Defenders are a diverse group of progressives led by brown and black youth. As such, they have a special expertise in things like racial profiling and the school to prison ... |
nancyjones | 07/29/2013 | 11 | 19 | - | - |
| Protest arrests at New England coal plant I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:
New England coal plant protest
Rugbymom also diaried here:
... |
cordgrass | 07/30/2013 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| Democratic Senators Feinstein, Schumer Press for Assault on Independent Journalism
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law that would limit the law's protection only to "real reporters," not bloggers and other alternative media.
... |
perceptionisrealityshow | 08/12/2013 | 24 | 17 | - | - |
| Liberty or DAC. A Struggle Against "The Local Chapter of the NSA." A bit of street theatre took place Saturday, February 1st, in Oakland, just a block away from where Scott Olsen was shot and nearly killed by Oakland's Police Department during the first major ... |
jpmassar | 02/04/2014 | 5 | 17 | - | - |
| Police Utilizing Private Companies, Exploits To Access Data From Suspects' Smartphones "I'm thinking there's probably a wealth of information that just got tucked into your pocket," Norton says. "Something that we'd like to get our hands on." from the brute-force-attacks-that-don't-... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/26/2014 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
| First Amendment Project: Caltrans broke law by confiscating anti-tunnel signs In the latest episode in the Brown administration's "Signgate" scandal, Restore the Delta Thursday released an expert legal opinion finding that the California Department of Transportation’s (... |
Dan Bacher | 07/11/2013 | 6 | 16 | - | - |
| Have you read the Amnesty International report on human rights abuses in Ferguson? Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, MO
I don't think I need to detail Amnesty International's widely respected pedigree here. Suffice it to say that the human rights ... |
KingCharlemagne | 10/25/2014 | 10 | 15 | 1 | - |
| Defending the American Dream
Florida governor Rick Scott will give the keynote address to the Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit" scheduled for Aug 30-31 in Orlando, Florida. Ain't that some shit? |
nancyjones | 08/11/2013 | 18 | 13 | - | - |
| Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor Yesterday PEN American Center , 90 years old organization with a goal to defend free expression in literature, released a worrisome report Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to ... |
ScrewedByLawyer | 11/13/2013 | 13 | 10 | - | - |
| U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlikely to end The ongoing revelations about the government's spying programs have changed public opinion on the issue, but the institutions responsible for reining them in have no incentive to act.
Cross posted ... |
danps | 07/13/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| The National Security Agency's Captive Audience 1972 Supreme Court Dissenting Opinion re
Government Surveillance
This case [ Laird v. Tatum] involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army ... |
Lynne Vogel | 07/16/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Under 300 Unique Phone Metadata Searches in 2012
That is a screengrab from a letter sent from the United States Department of Justice to the Judge hearing the NSA case. It illustrates the title to this diary with the following sentence: "In ... |
Tortmaster | 07/23/2013 | 43 | 9 | - | - |
| Washington Times sues Homeland Security The original incident was diaried here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250685/-Gun-Search-warrant-used-for-confiscating-journalist-s-files
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland ... |
ffour | 11/22/2013 | 2 | 9 | - | - |
| MN-Sen: Al Franken (D) Worries That New iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Might Be A Privacy Menace
So the new iPhone came out this week:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/09/20/sen-franken-has-concerns-over-iphone-fingerprint-tech/ |
poopdogcomedy | 09/21/2013 | 11 | 8 | 1 | - |
| Anatomy of a dysfunctional Federal District Court district. Hopefully this comes across as something other than only routine sour grapes. "The First and The Fourth" subject matter area is, if anything, at least as important as the most committed proponents ... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 3 | 2 | - | - |