Archive for December, 2005
Blogging the Evidence
Numerous bloggers in the UK have been courting arrest - and breaking that country’s wall of silence - by mass publishing the leaked US/UK/Uzbekistan Torture Memos.
The memos, which outline the rendition and torture of US-arrested prisoners in Uzbekistan, come from the correspondences of former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray.
Here are some of the most [...]
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Tap, Tap, Tap…
In 2004, there were 347 wire-tap orders authorized in New York state, which constitutes the majority of orders authorized for individual states in the U.S. during that period. (California was 2nd with 180 and New Jersey was 3rd with 144. And there were 730 orders authorized for the federal jurisdiction.) Thanks to Mark Schaver’s Depth [...]
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This Just In…
At this very moment, it’s possible we’re being monitored
It turns out that until Tuesday (12/27/05), the NSA installed permanent cookies on the computers of Internet users who visited the NSA’s Website. (By coincidence, we were there on Tuesday, which means that we just made it into the club.) And these were persistent cookies - they [...]
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It’s Hell Below
Yesterday’s New York Times story on Freeport-McMoran was one of the best investigative feature stories I’ve read in a long time.
Devastating in its simple recitation of the facts, the piece exposed the mining company’s complicity with Indonesia’s military (whose human rights record is so poor that the U.S. government stopped dealing with them for 12 [...]
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It’s Nice to Know…
that the NSA is looking out for our 4th Amendment protections.
As quoted on their Website:
“Americans expect NSA to conduct its missions within the law. But given the inherently secret nature of those missions, how can Americans be sure that the Agency does not invade their privacy? The 4th Amendment of the Constitution demands it… oversight [...]
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Striking Reality
As the trains get ready to roll again (and our feet finish thawing out from this morning’s 1.5 hour hike from Brooklyn), it’s a good time to reflect on the true stories behind the 2005 NYC transit strike.
Sure, we’re all a little annoyed at the transit workers (retiring at 55 with a pension is a [...]
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Welcome
Welcome to our first, fumbling effort to put together a blog.
Expect plenty of remodeling in the next few months.
Over a few Irish coffees, I’ll come up with a better motto but for now:
This blog will be devoted to investigative journalism - our team consists of an investigator and an ink-stained wretch who are disgusted with [...]
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