Being a whistle-blower in the post-9/11 world
The Olympian
I'm glad I live in a country with people who are vigilant in defending civil liberties. But as I listen to the debate about the disclosure of two government programs designed to track suspected phone and email contacts of terrorists, I do wonder if ...

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BOTH SIDES NOW: After 9/11, Is Obama's NSA Really a Version of Hoover's FBI?
Huffington Post
Talk about 'Beyond Right & Left' -- when Franken-Rove clash with Scahill-Beck over the NSA program, knee-jerkers are confused. So Huffington & Matalin debate domestic snooping not by Hoover against protestors in the '60s but by Obama after 9/11 and ...

Dickey Cheney says surveillance could have stopped 9/11, calls Edward ...
Toronto Star
11, 2001. Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush during the post-9/11 period when the current surveillance programs were first implemented, said congressional lawmakers are wrong to suggest the practices are an invasion of Americans' privacy. He also ...

The former Vice President also called Edward Snowden a 'traitor' and fears he ...
Daily Mail
'As everybody who's been associated with the program's said, if we had had this before 9/11, when there were two terrorists in San Diego - two hijackers - had been able to use that program, that capability, against that target, we might well have been ...

PBS
Alleged 9/11 Plotters Have Another Day in Guantanamo Court
PBS
The courthouse used for detainees at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an old airport. Photo by Larisa Epatko. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, identified in the 9/11 Commission Report as the "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks," is slated to ...

ABC News
Cheney: NSA Monitoring Could Have Prevented 9/11
ABC News
Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the National Security Agency's surveillance programs today, saying that had they been in effect over a decade ago, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks might have been prevented. “Now, as everybody has been ...
Cheney says NSA monitoring could have prevented 9/11NBCNews.com
50 terror plots foiled since 9/11, NSA chief saysSarasota Herald-Tribune
Dick Cheney says surveillance could have stopped 9/11, calls Edward Snowden ...Toronto Star
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Lawfare (blog)
Reminder: Pretrial Hearings Tomorrow in the 9/11 Case
Lawfare (blog)
Tomorrow at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week's worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. The docketing order for our five-day session can be found here. Since the order's issuance, various ...

Cheney says surveillance could have stopped 9-11, calls Snowden a 'traitor'
GlobalPost
Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush during the post-9-11 period when the current surveillance programs were first implemented, said congressional lawmakers like fellow Republican Rand Paul are wrong to suggest the practices are an invasion of ...

Lessons from 9/11: How it's shaped the NSA
NBCNews.com
interesting, because as some commentators this week have pointed out, those who are concerned about civil liberties , imagine their reaction if there were another 9/11-style attack and what the american public would rise up to support in terms of ...

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World Tribune
Journalist who interviewed Snowden called 9/11 blow to America a 'very good ...
World Tribune
Getting into his discussion of 9/11, which killed nearly 3,000 Americans, Greenwald said: “They [Al Qaida] knew that a single attack on U.S. soil, very minimal in scope compared to the level of violence that we bring to the world and have been bringing ...

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Town Hall
Cheney says NSA monitoring could have prevented 9/11
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The United States might have been able to prevent the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington had controversial National Security Agency surveillance practices been in place at the time, former Vice President Dick Cheney said ...
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Kass: We gave up our freedom after 9/11
Denver Post
Last week, when Americans learned of a massive erosion of our freedom, also marked the 64th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's "1984." If you haven't read it, please do so. If you read it years ago, read it again. The movie doesn't count.

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America post-9/11 has lost its way
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
For a generation of Americans, it is hard to imagine a tragedy more gut-wrenching than the slow-motion horrors we watched on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. ... Now, yet again, with the revelations of the surveillance techniques that the U.S. government ...

Daily Kos: 'Forget the "Terrorism" Crusade!' The Toll on 9/11 Was Tiny
NewsBusters
In the wake of the new leaks about NSA surveillance, the Daily Kos wants the entire War on Terrorism repealed as a vast violation of American civil liberties. Terrorism, scherrorism, says "Letsgetitdone." We lose many more Americans due to "gun ...

New York Daily News
Could NSA surveillance have prevented 9/11?
New York Daily News
The furor over the National Security Agency's court-supervised program of mining information from phone records boils down to a debate pitting theoretical civil liberties violations against real and bloody mayhem. FBI Director Robert Mueller starkly ...

As 9/11 Continues to Justify State Crimes, New Book Reveals Suspects ...
Center for Research on Globalization
Were the crimes of September 11, 2001 solely the work of Osama bin Laden and nineteen troubled young Arabs, or were more powerful people involved? After a decade of investigation Kevin Ryan, the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, offers an ...

KING5.com
9/11 memorial looking for home in eastern Wash.
KING5.com
“If you guys don't want it, then we're going to find a place that's going to want it,” said Dave Lewis before hitching the memorial to his pickup. The piece features life-size depictions of people killed on 9/11 surrounding a piece of steel from the ...

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New York Post (blog)
Seahawks coach Carroll reportedly asks Army vet about 9/11 conspiracy theories
Houston Chronicle (blog)
“Every 9/11 conspiracy theory you can think of, Pete asked about,” said Riki Ellison, the former NFL linebacker who now runs the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance and introduced Carroll to Chiarelli. Ellison, along with Seahawks offensive line coach ...
Report: Seahawks Coach Peppered 4-Star General With 9/11 'Conspiracy ...CBS Local
Pete Carroll seeks truth about 9/11 from four-star general, finds out that it ...Field Gulls
Seahawks coach Carroll questioned four-star general with 9/11 conspiracy ...New York Post (blog)
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Report: Seahawks Coach Peppered 4-Star General With 9/11 'Conspiracy ...
CBS Local
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Seattle head coach Pete Carroll hosted a retired four-star general at the Seahawks facility last spring and blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government, according to ...
Seahawks coach Carroll reportedly asks Army vet about 9/11 conspiracy theoriesHouston Chronicle (blog)
Pete Carroll seeks truth about 9/11 from four-star general, finds out that it ...Field Gulls
Seahawks coach Carroll questioned four-star general with 9/11 conspiracy ...New York Post (blog)
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Christian Science Monitor
Secret NSA program could have 'derailed' 9/11 attacks, FBI director says (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Washington. Had the National Security Agency's secret phone-monitoring program been in place prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it probably would have prevented them. Skip to next paragraph ...
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