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		<title>Only an expert</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/23/only-an-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurie Anderson explains the (non-)solution to our problems: only an expert can do it. This is one song that addresses Oprah, Iraq, torture, and Wall Street financial crimes, while being kick-ass msuically.  The version below is live, but the version &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/23/only-an-expert/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chronicle of an assult on the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/01/chronicle-of-an-assult-on-the-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=14472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that whenever Americans feel insecure the first actions are to jettison long held Constitutional protections that were created only by revolution and bloodshed. The latest such action, of course, was what happened after the 9/11 attacks, 10 years &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/09/01/chronicle-of-an-assult-on-the-constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Safety&#8217;s threat to liberty</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/10/safetys-threat-to-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this. It provides a nice summary of the six times that Americans gutted their Constitution wrongfully. The first five largely have been corrected. The sixth time remains an open question. Excerpt: The Patriot Act, amending those privacy statutes, passed &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/10/safetys-threat-to-liberty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The secret &#8220;Patriot&#8221; act (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/26/the-secret-patriot-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 12:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) says that the Patriot Act that we all think we know about is bad. But even worse is the secret Patriot Act. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/26/the-secret-patriot-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Job (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched the film &#8220;Inside Job&#8221; (link to trailer) that dissects the causes of the &#8220;great recession&#8221; we are still suffering from. It is the most cogent and understandable explanation of a very complex set of issues I have &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/22/inside-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer, writing the current issue of The New Yorker, tells an amazing story about a former NSA employee who is charged under the Espionage Act for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse inside the NSA. The article &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/21/your-tax-dollars-at-work-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Torture quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/10/torture-quote-of-the-day-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 11:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a subject I know something about. I was a student at the DIA interrogation school i[n] 1969. I worked as an interrogator/debriefer for three years after that working for the DIA. One of the first things we discussed &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/10/torture-quote-of-the-day-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Politcal quote of the day 2</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/politcal-quote-of-the-day-2-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For civil libertarians, the legacy of bin Laden is most troubling because it shows how the greatest injuries from terror are often self-inflicted. Bin Laden’s twisted notion of success was not the bringing down of two buildings in New York &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/politcal-quote-of-the-day-2-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/political-quote-of-the-day-91/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; there can be no doubt that justice for the families of the 9/11 victims was agonizingly delayed because the Bush team took a megalomaniacal detour to Baghdad. A pigheaded Donald Rumsfeld, overly obsessed with a light footprint, didn’t have &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/political-quote-of-the-day-91/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Torture is torture</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/torture-is-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Bush administration officials, including the despicable John Yoo who authored legal memoranda authorizing torture, are claiming that the &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; aka torture implemented by the Bush administration is responsible for the killing of bin Laden. This is not &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/05/04/torture-is-torture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote anniversary of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/23/political-quote-anniversary-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem. &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, explaining in 2003, after &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/23/political-quote-anniversary-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the criminal?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/04/13/who-is-the-criminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<title>Starting a war is easy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/18/starting-a-war-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and leaving a war is very difficult. This principal is well stated by Peggy Noonan in an essay in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. In Afghanistan, America cannot leave because it is the 9/11 place, the place that helped 9/11 &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/18/starting-a-war-is-easy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Known and Unknown</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/11/known-and-unknown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s memoir, Known and Unknown, has received a number of terrible reviews. But one such review that must really hurt is Peggy Noonan&#8217;s review in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. The entire review is worth a read. Excerpt: You&#8217;d expect &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/11/known-and-unknown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Security theater meets fraud</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/20/security-theater-meets-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting story in the Times this morning about a man named Dennis Montgomery. He apparently developed software that he claimed could detect and stop the next Al Qaeda attack on the US and the US paid him &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/20/security-theater-meets-fraud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MIA: the rule of law</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/18/mia-the-rule-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is happening in this country?  Do you think that, in a nation that purports apply the law to all citizens equally, that a citizen seized by the government within the United States should have a right to have he &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/18/mia-the-rule-of-law/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There they go again</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/01/16/there-they-go-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=11481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the Department of Homeland Security have somewhat quietly introduced yet another assault on the civil liberties of American citizens. This time in involves not an assault on the person, but rather an assault on the person&#8217;s data. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/01/16/there-they-go-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How we stay &#8220;secure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/how-we-stay-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=10816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Englehardt describes the US security state: Of course, the U.S. national security state has quite a different formula for engendering safety in America: fight the Afghan war until hell freezes over; keep the odd base or two in Iraq; &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/how-we-stay-secure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration actively fought torture probe</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/obama-administration-actively-fought-torture-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=10799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia One of the items revealed in the Wikileaks document dump is that the Obama administration (and several prominent Republicans) actively intervened in Spain to block a probe of American torture policy under the Bush Administration as it was &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/12/02/obama-administration-actively-fought-torture-probe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Looking forward&#8221; on torture</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=10761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books, explains why Obama&#8217;s effort to &#8220;look forward&#8221; and not backward on the torture committed by the Bush administration, will fail and that a full accounting, at a minimum, is necessary &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/11/28/looking-forward-on-torture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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