Brandon Mayfield was a US Army veteran and an attorney in Portland, OR. After the 2004 Madrid train bombing, his fingerprint was partially matched to one belonging to one of the suspected bombers, but the match was a poor one. But by this point, the FBI was already convinced they had their man, so they rationalized away the non-matching elements of the print, and set in motion a train of events that led to Mayfield being jailed without charge; his home and office burgled by the FBI; his client-attorney privilege violated; his life upended.

Some enlisted personnel are also questioning the use of drones. Heather Linebaugh, a drone operator for the US Air Force for three years says: “Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I’d start with: ‘How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?’ And: ‘How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?’ Or even more pointedly: ‘How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?’”

Russland rechnet laut seinem Botschafter in den USA, Sergej Kisljak, damit, dass die Abrüstungsverhandlungen mit den USA fortgesetzt werden und die Vereinigten Staaten dabei eine konstruktivere Haltung einnehmen.

Describing the move as preventive, it said: „The SBU‘s anti-terrorist center, in accordance with the law, is obliged to put on readiness anti-terrorist units on the territory of the state.“

It said international airports, power stations, and railway and bus stations in large cities were particularly at risk.

Back in 2012, the ACLU of Massachusetts published a report called ‚Policing Dissent‘, exposing the Boston Police Department‘s ‚red squad‘ surveillance operations, directed at antiwar and economic justice organizers. Among thedocuments we obtained through a public records lawsuit were so-called ‚intelligence reports‘ from the Boston police fusion center, the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC). These documents shocked the public. In files labeled „HOMESEC-DOMESTIC“, „GROUPS-CIVIL DISTURBANCE“, and „GROUPS-EXTREMISTS“, detectives described the entirely peaceful activities of groups and individuals ranging from Veterans for Peace and CodePink to Howard Zinn and a former city council member.

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“Once you are inside the assumption is that you are supposed to be there, like in most organizations,” said Richard Bejtlich, the chief security strategist for FireEye, a Silicon Valley computer security firm, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “But that doesn’t explain why they weren’t more vigilant about excessive activity in the system.”