RSN: Former Top NSA Official: "We Are Now in a Police State", Annexing the West Bank - A Catastrophic Plan for the Jewish People, Inside the Senate Report on CIA Interrogations, et al

FOCUS | Former Top NSA Official: "We Are Now in a Police State"

Washington's Blog
Excerpt: "Bill Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency's mass surveillance program for digital information."
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Andy Borowitz | CNN Apologizes for Briefly Airing Non-Flight 370 Story

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "CNN apologized to its viewers today for briefly airing a story on Sunday that had nothing to do with the missing Malaysia Airlines flight."
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Charles Pierce | And Visions of Missiles Danced in Ted Cruz's Head
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Republican presidential aspirant Tailgunner Ted Cruz made a little foray into foreign policy and stumps everywhere suddenly felt themselves intellectually validated."
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Dan Froomkin | The License-Plate Tracking Database Is Alive and Well
Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Froomkin writes: "In a February 19 front-page story, the Washington Post appeared to be breaking news of yet another massive federal surveillance program invading the privacy of innocent Americans."
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Inside the Senate Report on CIA Interrogations
Jason Leopold, Al Jazeera America
Leopold writes: "Al Jazeera has learned from sources familiar with its contents that the committee's report alleges that at least one high-value detainee was subjected to torture techniques that went beyond those authorized by George W. Bush's Justice Department."
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Michael Winship | Why UK's Tony Benn Didn't Bend
Michael Winship, Consortium News
Winship writes: "Tony Benn died in London Friday morning, age 88, A diehard socialist once described by elements of the right wing in his country as the most dangerous man in Britain."
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Gershon Baskin | Annexing the West Bank - A Catastrophic Plan for the Jewish People
Gershon Baskin, GershonBaskin.org
Baskin writes: "In all of the many years I have been working for peace I have yet to figure out what people on the Right propose instead of partitioning the land into two states for two peoples."
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Jeremy Rifkin | The Rise of Anti-Capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin, The New York Times
Rifkin writes: "We are beginning to witness a paradox at the heart of capitalism, one that has propelled it to greatness but is now threatening its future."
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