Using military documents, press accounts and other open source information, an in-depth analysis by AlterNet identified over 60 bases integral to U.S. military and CIA drone operations. AlterNet alleges that other bases are already under construction or in the planning stages.

“Google released another legal disclosure notice related to the United States government’s ongoing grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks,” Kevin Gosztola writes at Firedoglake.

Google recently told Jacob Appelbaum, who has worked with WikiLeaks, that Google was ordered by the U.S. government to provide data from his account to federal investigators.

Another top secret memo says Gulf countries were prepared to pay $10 billion to secure freedom of Egypt‘s Hosni Mubarak.

Saudi Arabia Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute „documents that might be faked“ in an apparent response to WikiLeaks‘ publication Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications.

The statement, made by the Foreign Ministry on its Twitter account, did not directly deny the documents‘ authenticity.

While the US represents nearly five percent of the world’s population, it incarcerates about 25 percent of the global prison population, making it the world’s largest jailer, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Imprisonment of America‘s 2.3 million prisoners costs $24,000 per inmate each year and $5.1 billion in new prison construction.

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He‘s admitted that September 11th gave him permission to reinterpret the 4th Amendment. He‘s claimed that terrorist attacks that weren‘t prevented were proof for why the NSA should keep collecting metadata. He lied about whether he and others lied about the CIA‘s torture program. He claimed that the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee‘s exec summary of the CIA torture report would be the tipping point for terrorists attacking us (how‘d that work out?). He‘s argued that no one who thinks Ed Snowden is a whistleblower should be allowed to work in government. He claimed that Senator Feinstein was too emotional about the CIA torture program to judge it effectively. And on and on and on.

And then there‘s this.

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Heute, am 20.6.2015, tagt der SPD-Konvent zur Abstimmung über den Gesetzesentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Derweil ziehen die Medien alle Register um die Zustimmung der Basis für Gesetz durchzudrücken. Einige Beispiele:

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