Homeland Security

TSA and America's Zero Risk Culture November 16, 2010 By Richard Forno Counterpunch.com The lede on the DRUDGEREPORT most of Monday showed a Catholic nun being patted down at an airport security checkpoint, with the caption starkly declaring...

This article was brought to my attention via the long-running, excellent Newsletter from Information Clearing House, a daily wire (headlines only or brief blurbs) of the "News you won't find on CNN". Check 'em out!! See also related story below, 73,000 blogs shut down as FBI probes Qaeda posts.

By The Associated Press July 19th, 2010 RawStory.com Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no one really knows what it cost and how...

Speaking of managed news and absent truth, why is the media being blocked - under threat of felony arrest and a $40,000 fine - by the Coast Guard, BP security, local police, and Homeland Security, from the Gulf? See, for instance, Glenn Greenwald's July 5 commentary on "The BP/Government police State" at Salon.com. And this excellent blog entry, "Facing the Future as a Media Felon on the Gulf Coast". (And see lots of important, excellent investigative research from Project Censored here.)