Refusing to Let DHS Ignore the Constitution: The Mastermix

by Eileen | 9:02 am, February 27, 2013

Over at Reason, Scott Shackleford has posted a fabulous montage of people refusing to comply with unconstitutional DHS check points and warrantless searches. In each case, an individual traveling within the continuous United States is stopped with any suspicion and asked to answer questions about citizenship and to provide identification.  In several cases, the individuals [...]

Zombie CISPA Walks Among Us, and Counting on a Presidential Veto is Folly

by Eileen | 7:49 am, February 17, 2013

CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is back.  In the last Congress, House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) introduced the bill and got it through the House.  After that, the Senate ignored it.  Now, Rogers and Ruppersberger are running the same version of CISPA that passed in [...]

Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order: The Policy Directive (If That’s Not a Sexy, Enticing Title, I Don’t Know What Is)

by Eileen | 2:12 pm, February 13, 2013

* Damn near every existing Federal agency is involved and stands to gain new regulatory authority and access to private data. * The focus is on achieving real-time access to information across a wide swath of U.S. industry. * The sheer size of the planned project is going to cause major problems. Happy (almost) Valentine’s [...]

TSA Monkeys Will Go Back to Paying for Their Porn

by Eileen | 10:30 pm, January 18, 2013

…and, presumably, watching it on their own time.  I don’t know for certain; it’s anyone’s guess what goes on the those break rooms.  At any rate, our blue-gloved faux-security force is now able to devote more of its time to robbing passengers, having lost their x-ray scanners. The line from on high is that Rapiscan, [...]

Policy from a Politically Manipulative Fantasyland: the TSA’s Latest Bid for All Your Data

by Eileen | 5:06 am, January 12, 2013

The TSA is trying to resurrect a terrible program that been deservedly thwarted since its post-9/11 conception.  It was CAPPS, then CAPPS II, then Secure Flight.  Under all those guises, the goal was the aggregate any and all commercially available datasets into a behemoth database and then generate unique ‘aviation risk profiles’ for any airline [...]

10M Videos by DHS Shows Terrorists to be Middle Aged White Men and Women

by Mr. Bob | 7:33 am, August 19, 2011

A large component of the DHS’s careful selection of actors in its PSA videos seems to be PC-based. Although the average terrorist who has attacked/attempted to attack American interests in recent years has been a young Middle-Eastern Muslim male, …

We are next: DHS now calling domestic dissent "terrorist."

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 1:57 pm, December 28, 2010

A Tennessee division of the Department of Homeland Security has put the ACLU on a “terrorist watch list.”Soon, all dissent will be labeled “terrorist” by the feds.And remember all of the conservative cheer leading behind the notion that “terrorists hav…

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