Obama administration claims right to kill Americans suspected of terrorism

Due process? What's that? Read the post of the same title by Jonathan Turley here. What is surprising is how little controversy this is generating.

FBI violates your privacy... again

From Slashdot which links to the Washington Post:

An anonymous reader writes to tell us of a report from the Washington Post which alleges that the FBI "illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records."

US attempting to strongarm Costa Rica into compliance with IP laws

Under the auspices of "free trade." The Bahamas are also discussed in the article.

Just a Thought

If Obama ran a very successful advertising campaign, can he be sued for false advertising when he fails to deliver on his campaign promises?

Just a thought.

Sprint served 8 million customer GPS coordinate requests to law enforcement in one year

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.

If you build it, they will come... and infringe on your privacy.

Obama escalates war in Afghanistan giving strikingly similar reasons as Bush's escalation in Iraq

It is almost as if Obama and his advisors are guilty of plagiarism, or at the very least unoriginality. They're contributing nothing to the intellectual reasons for advocating war. See Glenn Greenwald's take on the subject.

Obama says Tibet is part of China

Now I have never been a huge Free Tibet advocate, but many progressive Obama supporters are, and this comes as the latest in a long string of middle fingers from Obama to his liberal base. Turley notes that Obama, in a break from past presidents, has affirmed Tibet as being part of China. Never let anyone tell you that Obama hasn't worked for change... for the worse.