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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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		<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>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/24/political-quote-of-the-day-108/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a free country, you should never feel comfortable being searched. This is not the country I was born in. We’re a fascist nation now. &#8211; Jesse Ventura, former wrestler and governor of Minnesota, speaking to a DOJ attorney following &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/24/political-quote-of-the-day-108/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Update on the Thomas Drake case</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/16/update-on-the-thomas-drake-case/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/16/update-on-the-thomas-drake-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I pointed to the Thomas Drake case in which the federal government was accusing Mr. Drake under the Espionage Act for blowing the whistle on what he saw as monumental waste of resources at the NSA. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/07/16/update-on-the-thomas-drake-case/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration case collapses</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/12/obama-administration-case-collapses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=13431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has filed (and appears to be planning to file) more cases against government whistle blowers than the George W. Bush administration. It is part of the Obama administration&#8217;s consistent attack on civil liberties and hardened governmental secrecy. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/06/12/obama-administration-case-collapses/">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>Obama wants copyright enforcement</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/17/obama-wants-copyright-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama White House, which cannot seem to be able to convict any of the bankers that almost took down our entire economy, has issued a 20 page proposal seeking to greatly ratchet up law enforcement activity in alleged intellectual &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/03/17/obama-wants-copyright-enforcement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taibbi: Why no jail?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/21/taibbi-why-no-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=12029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi&#8217;s latest article questions the lack of prosecutions of Wall Street bankers following the collapse. Other than Bernie Madoff, it seems clear that the regulatory/enforcement system is not working. Taibbi notes that the enforcers leave the regulators or the &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2011/02/21/taibbi-why-no-jail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FBI: Give us back our secret tracker</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/10/09/fbi-give-us-back-our-secret-tracker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating story of what happened when a man in California discovered a tracking device had been secretly planted on his car. Related articles Report: Student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI asks for it back (autoblog.com) FBI Takes Back &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/10/09/fbi-give-us-back-our-secret-tracker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another horrible idea</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/28/another-horrible-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Several politicians have announced a new proposed bill called the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). It would create two blacklists of Internet domains: one created by the courts and a second created by government bureaucrats. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/09/28/another-horrible-idea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama = Bush Light, part 2</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/10/obama-bush-light-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, President Obama is adopting positions inconsistent with his campaign promises and consistent with his predecessor.  His Department of Justice is taking a position that the US government is immune to all claims of warrantless wiretapping, a position even &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/06/10/obama-bush-light-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NSA&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping ruled illegal (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2010/03/31/nsas-warrantless-wiretapping-ruled-illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. A federal judge, Vaughn R. Walker, has ruled that George Bush&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program was in fact illegal. This despite the efforts of the Obama administration to fight the result. In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2010/03/31/nsas-warrantless-wiretapping-ruled-illegal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reality TV and reality (updated x2)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/28/reality-tv-and-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that various incidents involving reality TV have recently been causing news. On the first was the entire balloon boy incident, when an aspiring reality TV &#8220;actor&#8221; sought publicity by faking a purported accidental balloon flight by his son. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/28/reality-tv-and-reality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism prosecutions: a report from the DOJ</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/15/terrorism-prosecutions-a-report-from-the-doj/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those concerned about the likelihood of success in the upcoming 9/11 prosecutions in New York, you should understand that the DOJ believes it can be successful.  For example, the United States Department of Justice, in a June, 2006, report, &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/11/15/terrorism-prosecutions-a-report-from-the-doj/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t bogart that joint, dude (updated)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/10/19/dont-bogart-that-joint-dude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has announced that Federal prosecutors will no longer go after medical marijuana users or distributors. Finally, some action to reflect the will of the voters. People who use marijuana for medical purposes and those who distribute it &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/10/19/dont-bogart-that-joint-dude/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CIA heads seek to stop torture inquiry</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/09/19/cia-heads-seek-to-stop-torture-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several former directors of the CIA have asked the Obama administration to drop the Department of Justice inquiry into detainee torture. Why?  They give three reasons: (1) charges should not be brought based on a change in administration, (2) continuing &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/09/19/cia-heads-seek-to-stop-torture-inquiry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring civil liberties: one case at a time</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/09/05/restoring-civil-liberties-one-case-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that weeks-long detentions of innocent people as &#8220;material witnesses&#8221; violates the Constitution. From the New York Times: In the decision, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/09/05/restoring-civil-liberties-one-case-at-a-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Holder to appoint prosecutor to investigate torture (updated x2)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/24/holder-to-appoint-special-prosecutor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Holder is going to appoint a career prosecutor to investigate special prosecutor to examine whether Bush administration interrogations conducted by the CIA were legal. Good for him. But the real question is whether the prosecutor will have the authority &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/24/holder-to-appoint-special-prosecutor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>DOJ ethics office recommends abuse investigations</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/24/doj-ethics-office-recommends-abuse-investigations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way to correct mistakes is to fully understand what happened and why. Then lessons can be drawn to avoid them in the future. The ethics office of the Department of Justice has recommended just such a course of action &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/24/doj-ethics-office-recommends-abuse-investigations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s brain</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/12/bushs-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Rove was knee deep in the US attorneys firing scandal from 2006. And it is now proven by the release of testimony and emails according to the New York Times.  Another Bush Administration perversion of the justice system. Aides &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/08/12/bushs-brain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>John Yoo: Shameless</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2009/07/16/john-yoo-shameless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Yoo has a piece in today&#8217;s WSJ. I won&#8217;t quote it, except to say it is the same old argument, louder and with even less substance. To wit, the President of the US has unlimited power to do anything &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2009/07/16/john-yoo-shameless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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