Secrecy News: From Gingrich to Obama–“We Don’t Need No Stinking Constitution…”

EXTRAJUDICIAL TARGETING OF AMERICANS CHALLENGED Two civil liberties organizations said they will file a legal challenge against the government’s suspected targeting for assassination of an American supporter of Al Qaeda, arguing that under the U.S. Constitution no citizen can be “deprived of life… without due process of law.” The American Civil Liberties Union and the …

Journal: Potential End to Two-Party Monopoly

Disillusioned Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system “dysfunctional,” riddled with “brain-dead partisanship” and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, Bayh argued that the American people needed to …

Journal: MILNET–Loss of Rule of Law, Aviation Insecurity

Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the  two suits testing warrantless eavesdropping and executive branch  powers implemented following the 2001 terror attacks. The San  Francisco judge said the courts are not available to the public to  mount that challenge. “A citizen may not gain standing …