DHS Monitoring Social Media and Web Sites for Terror, Disaster Info
Yes, your good friends and mine over at Motherland… errr… Homeland Security have announced that they are monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats.
Attention terrorists: if you know what’s good for you, don’t tweet your plans, ok?
Hmmm…. this seems to go nicely with warrantless wiretaps and internet drivers licenses, doesn’t it?
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The White House is ‘reviewing a plan that would require the Justice Department and FBI to consult with the intelligence community before *deciding* whether to inform terrorism suspects arrested in the United States that they have the right to remain
silent and to consult with an attorney.’
Meanwhile, Miranda spins silently in its grave.
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A US Appeals Court weighs a government petition on whether to allow the police to track down suspected criminals through cell-phone signals without a warrant.
We’re the government: we don’t need no steenkin’ warrants!
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Aspartame has been renamed and is now being marketed as a natural sweetener.
Beware of AminoSweet!