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Statement by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes on Syrian chemical weapons use – June 16, 2013 and May 6, 2013
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Ed Snowden to G8: turn on the taps when talking Gary Gibbons on Politics June 16 “Ed Snowden’s computers have delivered another extraordinary story to The Guardian – but one that you can safely predict kills of Mr Snowden’s hopes of asylum. He reveals that GCHQ boasted of tapping into Blackberries, emails and phone traffic [...] A chronicle of the spectacular incompetence of those who purport to lead us The invasion of Syria – Preplanned? I don’t know but some interesting evidence surfaced this week that supports a serious look. Roland Dumas, French Foreign Minister under Mitterrand, made some disturbing statements on French television. He said that the British were preparing [...] While I disagree with a great deal of what is said in tonight’s Nelson Report, I think it is extremely useful to read it to understand how the “insiders” see the leak. They have absolutely no conception of how Main Street sees it. How run of the mill people involved in small scale retail politics [...] (The Guardian Exclusive/Glenn Greenwald): Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama • Read the Verizon court order in full here The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, [...] Washington Post, By Robert Barnes, June 3 A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that police may take DNA samples as part of a routine arrest booking for serious crimes, narrowly upholding a Maryland law and saying the samples can be considered similar to fingerprints. “DNA identification represents an important advance in the techniques used by [...] In scanning the news this morning, I found this headline: Russia says it will help Syria deter “hot heads” Now who could they possibly mean, I wonder… All kidding (on the square) aside, this is a bit troubling, although part of the problem could be in translation (or not). “Hotheads” is a pretty [...] (smh.com.au) – President Barack Obama has recommitted to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison following the arrival of “medical reinforcements” to deal with a mass hunger strike. Nearly 40 Navy nurses, corpsmen and specialists have gone to the detention centre, as 100 inmates who have been held for more than a decade without trial refuse food. [...] (NYT) – “The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.” For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of [...] AFP – More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, an official said Sunday. There are 84 inmates who are refusing food, including 16 on feeding tubes, five of whom are hospitalized, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House said [...] (McClatchy) – The Obama administration does not intend to send a witness to testify at a Senate hearing next week on the legality of the U.S. targeted killing program, the White House said Wednesday. The decision illustrates the limits of President Barack Obama’s pledge in his State of the Union speech on Feb. 12 to [...] (NYT) – A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it. Read the report here h/t ww [...] |
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