Sometimes the IP logging feature on LJ is a beautiful thing, especially when Homeland Security employees think they’re being all badass by flaming you for your political views from work.
Back to work, you. I pay you to beat up Mexicans and lose the city of New Orleans, not click around on the internet like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.
We have a quasilegal military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The status of the prisoners there is precarious. Military justice applies, and events are recorded and public records made.
We also have a murky gulag of international detention centers, to which various foreign terrorism suspects are flown in unmarked planes. It is not known how many prisoners there have been or what their fates have been. Nothing is publicly recorded.
At least one U.S. citizen has been detained in an irregular manner in a military prison, and his case has been well-reported and debated.
How do we know that U.S. citizens and others are not being simply picked up off the streets and disappeared? Any witnesses could be threatened into silence with the Patriot Act.
And if it isn’t already happening, how will we know? People go missing all the time. It’s a big country. They could try it out with some random people who don’t seem to matter before they went after someone who might be noticed.
Secret police, makers of secret police fanclub TV show meet
This is worth reading just for the million dollar phrase “Moderated by Rush Limbaugh.”
I didn’t know that 24‘s sets person designed the operations center for the National Counterterrorism Thingy. That’s hilarious.
Also. Clarence Thomas?
Also. Chertoff took time for this?
Suspicious lamp prompts evacuation
A Huntington Beach homeowner saw the object in a garage.
By RYAN HAMMILL
The Orange County Register
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A report of a suspicious lamp in a garage led to a neighborhood evacaution today before the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad determined that the object was harmless.
A Mangrum Drive homeowner called Huntinton Beach police about 3 p.m. after seeing wires protruding from the base and an unfamiliar light bulb, Sgt. Dave Bunetta said.
Police officers visually inspected the lamp before calling the bomb squad and the Huntington Beach Fire Department’s hazardous material unit, Bunetta said.
Residents within 300 feet of the house were evacuated for about 3½ hours during the investigation.
The house is next door to a home day care, which also was evacuated, and two blocks from Marina High School.
Government Can’t Explain Change in 2002 TSA Contract
The modification to the contract involved switching the interview sites for tens of thousands of airline passenger screener jobs from a contractor’s own assessment centers to hotels and luxury resorts.
Federal auditors eventually called into question an array of expenses, including charges of $525 for an airport shuttle trip in Tallahassee, $7,920 for beverage breaks at a Manhattan hotel and $514,000 to rent tents in Boston.
So let’s get this straight. Homeland Security changed from using classrooms to using luxury hotels, we got charged $343 million for this, and no one can explain why?
I want someone’s head on a plate.
During the big antiwar demonstration and also during the First Lady’s appearance at the National Book Fair, sensors on the Mall picked up traces of tularemia, a deadly bacterial disease that has been weaponized. Choose your paranoia: was Big Brother trying to kill the antiwar demonstrators? Was Osama trying to whack Mrs. Bush? Who knows. But what happened then? They didn’t tell anyone.
Whether or not the sensors picked up a false positive (apparently this is likely), I can’t believe that it takes 72 hours to pick up the phone and ask the CDC to check it out.
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