Attorneys Sue FBI, Homeland Security for Surveillance Records of Black Lives Matter
The FBI and Homeland Security have been sued for documents on the agencies’ surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters.
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CIA Photographed Captives Nude Before Sending Them to Be Tortured
CIA captives were photographed naked before being sent to other countries for torture.
Judge Gives Rare OK to Discovery in Lawsuit Challenging DEA Bulk Surveillance
By Mark Rumold Electronic Frontier Foundation A federal judge in Los Angeles has given our clients, Human Rights Watch, the go-ahead to take discovery from the government in our ongoing lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the DEA’s bulk surveillance program. Friday’s decision is rare, and it’s a decisive victory—both for HRW and for the general…
Human Rights Groups to Meet With Snowden at Moscow Airport Where He Will Break His Silence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA leaker Edward J. Snowden plans to break his silence after spending nearly three weeks in legal limbo at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, The New York Times reports. Airport officials said Snowden plans to meet with international human rights groups Friday. The rights workers will be escorted through security and into the transit…
Ex-Federal Judge Facing Nightmare Behind Bars
By Allan Lengel For AOL News As a federal judge in southern Texas for some 18 years, Samuel Kent sent folks off to prison. Now he’s behind bars himself, being subjected to what his attorney describes as a Kafkaesque nightmare of “cruel and abusive treatment.” Kent, 61, is serving a 33-month sentence for obstruction of…
Ex-Federal Judge Facing Nightmare Behind Bars
By Allan Lengel For AOL News As a federal judge in southern Texas for some 18 years, Samuel Kent sent folks off to prison. Now he’s behind bars himself, being subjected to what his attorney describes as a Kafkaesque nightmare of “cruel and abusive treatment.” Kent, 61, is serving a 33-month sentence for obstruction of…
Kenyan Prez Accepts FBI Offer to Help Investigate Murders of 2 Human Rights Workers
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire The Guardian newspaper in London is reporting that the Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has accepted an offer from the FBI to help probe the murders of two human rights workers. The human rights workers, Oscar Kamau Kingara and Paul Oulo, who were highly critical of police killings, were shot to…