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Yet another fistulagram + angioplasty
End-stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis like myself, who are fortunate enough to have arteriovenous (AV) fistulas, are much less prone to blood clots or infections. A vascular surgeon creates...
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US surveillance statistics rise dramatically
It’s a good thing that the US government is required to release reports on its surveillance activities. It’s a bad thing that it ignored the requirement. It’s a good thing that the American Civil...
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Last March, US intelligence officials met at the White House to debate a proposal to “create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about US citizens — even people suspected of no...
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National disgrace: Five more years of warrantless wiretapping
Last September, to no one’s surprise, the US House of Representatives passed the FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act for 2012 on a vote of 301-118. On 28 December 2012, scheduled to be hidden as...
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Time for pitchforks, torches, and heads on pikes — investigate Lanny Breuer...
The US Justice Department is out of control. Underlying the wildly overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz is the abject failure of a single bankster to be indicted, let alone convicted and jailed for...
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US Representatives Issa and Cummings want answers about Aaron Swartz prosecution
US Representatives Darell Issa (R-California) and Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chair and ranking minority member, respectively, have sent US...
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US taxpayers subsidize “too big to fail” banksters
Because of the way the US financial system is rigged structured, it’s in a bank’s best interest to get as large and unwieldy as possible because once a bank is “too big to fail” it’s also “too big to...
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Fairview and Sanford sitting in a tree
On 26 March, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson telegraphed her concerns about a merger currently under consideration between Fairview Health Services — the second largest healthcare system in...
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Holder signed warrant for Fox News reporter’s email
While US Attorney General Eric Holder apparently recused himself from the warrantless seizure of Associated Press telephone records, he reportedly signed the warrant application used to obtain the...
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Obama rumored to nominate Comey as head of FBI
When he was President George W. Bush’s deputy attorney general, James Comey was the figure who authorized one of that administration’s biggest scandals — the warrantless wiretapping fiasco — and...
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From Clipper chip to secure email shutdowns
Chances are you don’t remember much about then-President Bill Clinton‘s public encryption management directive — also known as the Clipper chip — whereby private encryption keys would be escrowed...
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Google’s PREF cookie, mobile phones, and the meaning of “relevant”
Edward Snowden’s latest disclosure regarding the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic surveillance program reveals the agency is surreptitiously using advertising tracking cookies in users’...
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US court forces release of drone memo
A US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has released a previously secret Obama administration memo outlining a legal justification for the government’s use of drones to target and kill...
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DOJ releases useless NSL report
Last month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 198-page heavily redacted report (.pdf; 3.9MB) on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) use of national security letters (NSLs)....
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DOJ releases warrantless wiretapping justification memos
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has released two heavily redacted memos outlining the government’s justification for warrantlessly wiretapping domestic telephone calls. The documents were released...
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President Obama: Please pardon Edward Snowden
In mid-November, President Barack Obama sat for a lengthy interview with Klaus Brinkbaumer and Sonia Seymour Mikich for Der Spiegel. The most interesting bit was the last question; Obama was asked if...
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Trend to neuter US First Amendment
In the US, the framers of the Constitution rightly made freedom of expression the First Amendment because it’s the most important. President Donald Trump is, of course, fanatically in favor of his own...
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Trump administration issues warrant for identities of visitors to anti-Trump...
On 17 July 2017, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) served a search warrant (.pdf; 1MB) on DreamHost, a website host, for all information related to a website used to coordinate protests during the...
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