Column: Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley: Americans’ Rights at Risk

  By Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent ConsortiumNews.com The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our Constitutional Republic into a powerful, unaccountable Military Empire. The U.S. Senate has just voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, which allows the military to operate…

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Justice Dept. Being Hard-nosed About Leaks: Still Fighting to Get NY Times Reporter to Disclose Sources

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years into the Obama administration, the Justice Department appears to be as hard-nosed about challenging reporters’ rights to protect confidential sources as it was under the Bush administration. The latest: The Justice Department has gone to the Court of Appeals to challenge District judge, who ruled that New York…

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