Secrecy News: Court Slams Justice & NSA on Drake

SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2011, Issue No. 72 July 29, 2011 Secrecy News Blog **     HANDLING OF DRAKE LEAK CASE WAS “UNCONSCIONABLE,” COURT SAID The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War days, said …

DefDog: Criminal Complicity at Department of “Justice”

CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH: There is a massive complicity in America today between the corporations that fund elections and the officeholders they elect. Actions like Tim’s are aimed at disrupting that complicity. For our children, for our country and for the world, we should honor his courage and self-sacrifice and pledge to follow in his footsteps, each …

Post-Legal Amerika: Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Justice

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His latest book, just published, is The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books). Watch a Timothy MacBain TomCast video of him discussing the American way of war by clicking here. Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is …