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Here's what we still don't know about the U.S. drones program
Nearly six months ago, President Obama promised more transparency and tighter policies around targeted killings. How much has changed since then?
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50 Organizations Call For Ban on Armed Drones
The dozens of groups and over 75,000 individuals are calling for sanctions against nations that carry out drone attacks in violation of international law, and are demanding an immediate U.S. ban on the use or sale of weaponized drones.
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Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
No other nation we know of so thoroughly sifts through the world’s communications, bugs 35 key leaders, targets individuals for assassination by CIA drones or U.S. special forces and stores every word its citizens ever sent.
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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition and is acquiring heavily armored tanks which have been seen roaming the U.S. streets. It's clear this is meant for unrest at home, and not abroad.
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North Carolina Deals Setback to Drone Surveillance — For Now
A provision was recently added to the state budget preventing those in law enforcement and similar government agencies from buying surveillance drones for two years.
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Revealed: Leaked Report Shows High Civilian Death Toll from CIA Drone Strikes
The secret Pakistani document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism describes 147 civilian deaths, much higher than the U.S. administration has admitted to.
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America's Defining Choice: A Free or An Authoritian Future
Today's whistleblowers are fighting the same scourge that the Founders and every genuine patriot has fought against, only today, the authoritarianism that we're confronting isn't a foreign enemy, but one from within.
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Terror vs. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps
Before I am bullied into accepting intrusive government surveillance that is open to politicized abuse, here are two proposals: stop creating new terrorists, and change U.S. policy toward the Arab and Muslim world.
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CIA Didn't Always Know Who it Was Killing in Drone Strikes
One of every four of those killed by drones in Pakistan between Sept. 3, 2010, and Oct. 30, 2011, were classified as "other militants."
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Former Drone Operator Says He's Haunted by His Part in More Than 1,600 Deaths
A former Air Force drone operator says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people.
