All Further Articles for 2013-06-19
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Time-Tested: If the FBI Shoots You, It's Always Justified, Says FBI Despite questions that continue to swirl around the FBI's shooting of an apparently unarmed Ibragim Todashev, possible cohort of the Boston bombing suspects, all FBI shootings since 1993 - including 70 "subjects" killed - were entirely justified according to internal reviews done by the FBI itself, which is faultless and has no conflict of interest and should know, right? The bureau's finding they never, ever mess up, released by the NY Times through a FOIA lawsuit, was deemed suspicious by some skeptics, but not us, nope. "The F.B.I. takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents, and as such we have an effective, time-tested process for addressing them internally.” - the FBI Read more |
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Snowden vs. the Dragons, the Media, the Vitriol, the Administration and (An Ever-Snarling) Cheney When Dick Cheney slithered out of his cave to call Edward Snowden a traitor - a claim, given its slimy source, Snowden called "the highest honor you can give an American" - it was the latest in an ongoing, vengeful, bizarre and irrelevant campaign of vitriol against a guy who, regardless of his personal flaws, strengths or story, has indisputably "done something brave and worthwhile." And the best commentary pushes past the distracting, mud-slinging, name-calling debris to capture that kernel of truth. "The everyday fact that the police have the right to monitor the communications of all its citizens – in secret – is a classic hallmark of a state that fears freedom as well as championing it." - Guardian editorial Read more |