https://www.dailykos.com/news/billofrightsdefensecommittee News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:59:49 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:59:49 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/28/1325479/-Building-Bridges-Radio-From-Ferguson-to-Staten-Island-Building-Resistance-to-Police-Terror <p><a href="http://www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2014/08/from-ferguson-to-staten-island-building.html">http://www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/...</a><br /> <strong>From Ferguson to Staten Island<br /> Building Resistance to Police Terror<br /> withMichael McPhearson, Ex. Dir. of Veterans for Peace,<br /> Carl Dix, co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West of the Stop Mass<br /> Incarceration Network,<br /> Shahid Buttar, Exec. Dir., The Bill of Rights Defense Committee</strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (buildingbridgesradio) billofrightsdefensecommittee CarlDix EricGarner FergusonMissouri MichaelBrown MichaelMcPhearson ShahidButtar StopMassIncarcerationNetwork VeteransforPeace _1325479 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:57:15 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/6/5/1304689/-Commander-Behind-Bin-Laden-Killing-FBI-DHS-Wasting-Time-Tracking-Environmentalists <p>Dave Cooper, Command Master Chief SEAL (Retired) for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), has authored a threat assessment concluding TransCanada‘s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is potentially at-risk of a terrorism attack.</p> <p>In the report, Cooper concluded operational security vulnerabilities for the pipeline have been overlooked by the U.S. government. Cooper — &nbsp;most famous for overseeing the Abbottabad, Pakistan Osama Bin Laden raid as the commander of Navy SEAL Team Six — wrote the report as a consultant for billionaire Tom Steyer‘s advocacy group NextGen Climate Action.<br /></p> rss@dailykos.com (Steve Horn) 350.org Abbottabad Alberta Archilochus billofrightsdefensecommittee BoldNebraska BORDC BrennanCenter CarlosPascual Cushing DarylHannah DaveCooper DaveMCooper DavidCooper DavidMCooper Department of Homeland Security DepartmentofHomelandSecurity DEVGRU Dilbit DilutedBitumen DzhokharTsarnaev FederalBureauofInvestigation fusioncenters JaharTsarnaev Keystone XL KeystoneIPipeline KeystonePipelineSystem KeystoneXL National Security NationalSecurity NavalSpecialWarfareDevelopmentGroup NavySeal NavySpecialWarfareDevelopmentGroup Nebraska NebraskaInformationAnalysisCenter NextGenClimateAction NIAC Occupy Boston OccupyBoston Oil Sands OilSands Oklahoma operationalsecurity OPSEC Osama bin Laden OsamabinLaden Pakistan Pennsylvania PredictivePolicing RaeBreaux RainforestActionNetwork RAN RedCell Sand Hills SandHills ScottParkin SealTeam6 SealTeamSix ShahidButtar SOCOM TamerlanTsarnaev Tar Sands targetedkillings TarSands Terrorism ThomasSteyer TomSteyer TransCanada USSOCOM USSpecialOperationsCommand _1304689 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:52:49 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/3/12/1284325/-Reports-WH-Won-t-Release-9K-CIA-Docs-to-Senate-Intel-Cmte-Calls-For-Brennan-s-Ouster-Increase <p>This evening, McClatchy and <i>The / / Intercept's</i> Dan Foomkin are reporting upon two major developments in the ongoing, knockdown-drag out pissing war between the Central Intelligence Agency and the top folks on Capitol Hill that are vested with the task of overseeing that monolithic government entity, the Senate Intelligence Committee.</p> <p>If readers wish to skip the excerpts, below, here are the links: from <i>McClatchy</i>, "<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/12/221033/despite-vows-of-help-white-house.html">Despite vows of help, White House withholds thousands of documents from Senate CIA probe</a>," and <i>The / / Intercept</i>, "<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/12/calls-brennans-ouster-emerge-along-details-cia-search-senate-computers/">Calls for Brennan’s Ouster Emerge Along With Details of CIA Search of Senate Computers</a>."</p> rss@dailykos.com (bobswern) AngelaCanterbury billofrightsdefensecommittee BrennanCenterforJustice CentralIntelligenceAgency DeepState DepartmentofJustice DianneFeinstein DOJ ElizabethGoitein governmentobfuscation JohnBrennan Kabuki Mark Udall MarkUdall MartinHeinrich NewYorkUniversityLawSchool POGO ProjectonGovernmentOversight Propaganda Recommended SenateIntelligenceCommittee shadowgovernment ShahidButtar StatusQuo Torture waterboarding _1284325 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 06:22:00 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1/27/1272836/-Cut-Off-the-NSA-s-Juice <p>The National Security Agency depends on huge computers that guzzle electricity in the service of the surveillance state. For the NSA’s top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big Brother nourished is essential -- and any interference with that flow is unthinkable.</p> <p>But interference isn’t unthinkable. And in fact, it may be doable.</p> <p>Grassroots activists have begun to realize the potential to put the NSA on the defensive in nearly a dozen states where the agency is known to be running surveillance facilities, integral to its worldwide snoop operations.<br /></p> rss@dailykos.com (NormanSolomon) 4th Amendment 4thAmendment Big Brother BigBrother billofrightsdefensecommittee Bluffdale DavidTaylor DianneFeinstein FortMeade FourthAmendmentProtectionAct LuisMoscoso MatthewKellegrew MikeRogers NationalSecurityAgency Oak Ridge OakRidge offnow _1272836 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:03:53 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/20/827744/-A-historic-opportunity-to-re-examine-the-Patriot-Act <p>From <a href="http://www.restorefairness.org/blog">Restore Fairness blog</a> <br /><strong>Use this historic opportunity to put pressure on Congress to re-examine provisions of the Patriot Act and create amendments that will prevent infringement on the rights of U.S. citizens.</strong></p> rss@dailykos.com (Lets Breakthrough) 9-11 ACLU American-ArabAnti-DiscriminationCommittee AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion AsianLawCaucus billofrightsdefensecommittee BrandonMayfield BreakThrough CenterForConstitutionalRights Congress DefendingDissentFoundation Detention Due Process DueProcess FacesofSurveillance ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct Human Rights HumanRights Immigration justiceact lonewolf MaterialSupportStatute MuslimPublicAffairsCouncil NationalLawyersGuild nationalsecurityletters PakistaniAmericanPublicAffairsCommittee PATRIOT Act PATRIOTAct PresidentBush Racial Profiling RacialProfiling ReclaimingPatriotism ReformthePatriotAct Rescued Restore Fairness RestoreFairness rovingwiretaps September 11 SouthAsianAmericansLeadingTogether Terrorism _827744 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:31:49 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/21/795652/-Your-Town-Can-Demand-Justice-More-Powerfully-Than-You <p>Most city council members take oaths to defend the Constitution. &nbsp;The Constitution makes the rights and standards in its amendments and in international treaties the supreme law of the land. &nbsp;Our nation has a rich tradition of local governments lobbying state and national governments through the passage of resolutions. &nbsp;Under Clause 3, Rule XII, Section 819, of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives local governments may petition Congress. &nbsp;Under the First Amendment, we all can. &nbsp;</p> rss@dailykos.com (David Swanson) billofrightsdefensecommittee Constitution Justice Local Resistance Resolutions Rule of Law RuleofLaw _795652 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:12 +0000