Intel Official: Say Goodbye to Your Privacy
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- Written by PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer
- Published: 11 November 2007 11 November 2007
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Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.
Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.
Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.
The Last Refuge
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- Written by Uri Avnery Uri Avnery
- Published: 10 November 2007 10 November 2007
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ISRAEL IS an island in the global sea. We live in a bubble. This week I was sharply reminded of this.
{josquote}It has been said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". For a failed politician, the last refuge is war.
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I was returning home from Germany. On the eve of the flight, all TV
networks, from CNN and BBC to the German channels, were reporting on
the events in Pakistan. In the airplane, I opened Israel's largest
circulation tabloid, Yedioth Aharonoth, in order to read about the
Pakistani mess. I did not find any mention of it on page 1. Nor on page
2. I found a small item on page 27. The first pages were devoted to
something much more important: the shouts of protest by right-wing
football hooligans when they were requested to stand up in memory of
Yitzhak Rabin.
ADC Deeply Troubled by LAPD Plan to 'Map' LA-Area Muslims
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- Written by The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
- Published: 10 November 2007 10 November 2007
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Washington, DC | November 10, 2007 | www.adc.org | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is deeply troubled by the Los Angeles Police Department's "community mapping" plan. The intelligence-guided mapping plan, which is to be carried out in conjunction with the University of Southern California's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, would collect information about Muslim communities in the Los Angeles area in an effort to identify who the Muslims are and where the Muslims reside.
In addition to obvious constitutional concerns that such a practice
would violate equal protection and burden the free exercise of
religion, religious profiling will engender fear and lack of trust in
the community which will, in turn, hinder law enforcement efforts.
Read more: ADC Deeply Troubled by LAPD Plan to 'Map' LA-Area Muslims
Whose Road Map?
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- Written by Jeff Halper Jeff Halper
- Published: 09 November 2007 09 November 2007
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US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
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- Written by ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
- Published: 08 November 2007 08 November 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent.
[As seen in the Iraq war, placement of military resources on war footing adds to the pressure to go to war - editor]