US top court rejects Blackwater Iraq shooting appeal

ShareThis US top court rejects Blackwater Iraq shooting appeal 04 Jun 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by four Blackwater Worldwide security guards mercenaries who argued prosecutors made improper use of their statements to investigators in charging them with killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. The justices refused to review a [...]

Obama Administration Doubles Down for Indefinite Detention Authority

  (Common Dreams)   DOJ threatens appeal after judge issues injunction, calls provision ‘unconstitutional’. Federal prosecutors from Obama’s Dept. of Justice on Friday asked a judge to lift an injunction placed on specific section of a recent law that permits the ‘indefinite military detention’ by the United States government and was signed by the President in [...]

Bradley Manning lawyer in struggle to have government documents released

ShareThis Bradley Manning lawyer in struggle to have government documents released 03 Jun 2012 The US government is in possession of 250,000 pages of documents relating to the transmission of state secrets to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which it is refusing to disclose to defence lawyers representing the alleged source of the leaks, Bradley Manning. Manning’s [...]

Cops Taser Pregnant Woman 3 Times Over Driving Violation

  (Mary Fischer)   When I heard about three police offers who wound up using a taser on a pregnant woman in Seattle, my first thought was that the story was some kind of a joke. Cops tasering a pregnant woman? In some sort of attempt to subdue her? For real?! You gotta be kidding me. Apparently these three [...]

Court blocks release of CIA interrogation methods

ShareThis Court blocks release of CIA interrogation methods 21 May 2012 CIA secret interrogation methods – including detention and harsh questioning torture of suspected terrorists – remain off limits to public release, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The agency was sued eight years ago to provide details of certain communications describing the use of [...]

Supreme Court to hear electronic eavesdropping case

ShareThis Supreme Court to hear electronic eavesdropping case –Obama administration lawyers appealed to the highest US court on behalf of James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence [Thanks, Obusha!] 21 May 2012 The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a US government challenge to a lawsuit against its electronic surveillance program, which allows authorities to [...]

Facebook Suit Over Subscriber Tracking Seeks $15 Billion

Facebook Inc. (FB), the social network operator whose shares began trading today, was sued for $15 billion in an amended complaint by subscribers who claim the company invaded their privacy by tracking their Internet use. In the complaint filed yesterday in federal court in San Jose, California, the plaintiffs say Facebook improperly tracked users even [...]

US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court

ShareThis US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court 11 May 2012 The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision [...]

Thanks to U.S. Appeals Court We Will Likely Never Know the Details of the NSA-Google Relationship

By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com May 12, 2012 Here at End the Lie we have devoted a significant amount of coverage to Google’s Big Brother activities – which are set to rise exponentially once their recent troubling patent is put into use – not the least of which includes deliberately stealing personal information from Americans with [...]

Anonymous blogger must appear in NY court

ShareThis Anonymous blogger must appear in NY court 11 May 2012 A New York judge has ordered an anonymous blogger to appear in court next week over accusations that the blog Alfredlittle.com wrote false reports about a Chinese company to drive down the stock. The blogger was served with a subpoena via email to appear [...]