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Bush’s Secret Army of Snoops and Snitches July 9, 2008 The full scale of Bush’s assault on our civil liberties may not be known until years after he’s left office. The “suggested duties” of these Terrorism Liaison Officers include: “source person for internal or external inquiry,” and...

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IN A FREE SOCIETY, THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SPY ON ITS CITIZENS Bush and the Republicans couldn't do it alone. They needed some Democrats. Enter bribe-happy Democratic powermongers Steny Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel, flush with gigantic "contributions" from the big telecoms looking for retroactive...

Ward-Time President: a president who turns America into a police state via warrantless domestic wiretaps, warrantless searches and seizures, secret military tribunals, suspension of habeas corpus and indefinite detention of citizens without charge. (Ward: the state of being under guard...

The first campaign of this new organization is the formation of Strange Bedfellows, the ideologically diverse coalition we have formed with liberals, libertarians and others who are devoted to the preservation of our core constitutional liberties and the rule of law. Before it has even begun...

Jonathan Turley calls it the "evisceration of the fourth amendment." Tomorrow we mourn. RIP

You sure it was a librarian? Maybe he thought she was a libertarian. Who would scare Obama and McCain more than a true believer in liberty? If we could get this woman and many others to go to these events armed with copies of the Constitution and watch them get kicked out. Oh the symbolism...