Just ask Glenn Beck!

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Anyone who didn’t know the Bush White House was bugging their own side doesn’t know much about human nature.

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So when the 9/11 commission had more questions for detainees, the CIA would go back and torture them. Isn’t that great?

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Why yes, Glenn, I noticed that myself:
What was most remarkable about this allegedly “anti-government” movement was that — with some isolated and principled exceptions — it completely vanished upon the election of Republican George Bush, and it stayed invisible even as Bush presided over the most extreme and invasive expansion of federal government power in [...]

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Or me, or anyone else we know:
A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung [...]

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See, I was just leaning back in my chair and I accidentally hit the “delete” button:
President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until [...]

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How the Feds are keeping track of your travels.

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Good news, via Joe Bageant.

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If you want to indulge your paranoia and get it out of your system, you can read Greg Palast.
And then you can read this! Or look at this!

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Are you aware that the Department of Homeland Security has extended its extraordinary search-and-seizure powers inland by 100 miles? That covers most major metropolitan areas.

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These evil, evil people. I cry for what used to be our country.

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Until everything crashes and we know exactly what’s at the bottom of the Big Shitpile, it’s going to be a disaster - because no one trusts anyone else enough to lend to them:
With its alphabet soup of CDO and CDS and TAF and TARP, the current financial crisis can seem hopelessly complex. But it really [...]

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It says a lot that some people are surprised by this:
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security [...]

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Imagine that:
The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.
Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the [...]

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My biggest fear was that this election will be close enough to steal. Doesn’t look like it’ll be a problem if Obama’s up 15 points in Pennsylvania - but remember, there’s still enough time for an October Surprise.

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Cybersecurity expert Stephen Spoonamore predicts a McCain-Palin win:

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Go read the King of Zembla. That’ll learn ya!

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Looks like the NRA paid someone to successfully infiltrate gun control groups. She has a history:
McFate’s work as an operative elsewhere is well documented. In 1989, the U.S. Surgical Corp. acknowledged that it had used McFate and another undercover operative to keep tabs on animal rights activists. The practice was necessary, the Connecticut company said, [...]

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Seems the Journal has already started running a post-debate ad declaring, “McCain Wins Debate!”.
Huh.

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Common and familiar brainwashing techniques. For example, chanting slogans (y’know, like “drill, baby, drill!”):
The “Analytical” part of your brain and the “Repetitive Task” part tend to operate in separate rooms. But you didn’t need an expert to tell you that. You know you can’t solve a complex logic puzzle if I force you to scream [...]

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Do you get nervous when you fly? You’ll love this:
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — A scene from the airport of the future: A man’s pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping. Screeners move in to question him.
Signs [...]

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Lutton just emailed me to ask me if I’d noticed the increased number of military helicopters in the area lately. He said they’re flown to a spot in South Philadelphia, where they’re loaded and shipped abroad, and was wondering what all the recently activity means.
It does sound like an October Surprise might be coming, [...]

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This sounded so strange when I first read about her, and now I understand why. And yes, there was a time I would have written off this theory [via Avedon]:
Dr Siddiqui resurfaced this week after five years in a New York court as a ‘top Al Qaeda terrorist’. She was barely able to walk and [...]

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Ron Suskind on how the Bush administration controlled information:

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What Marcy said.

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Isn’t that nice:
A ring of people spread across the globe hacked into nine major US companies and stole and sold more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers from 2003 to 2008, costing the companies and individuals hundreds of millions of dollars, federal law enforcement officials said yesterday.
“So far as we know, this is [...]

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Oh, look! The psychiatric social worker who is the primary witness as to Ivin’s instability has a rather lengthy history of run-ins with the law herself.

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What Rick said.

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All the fun of living in Russia without having to pay to move there!

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