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Secure Flight: TSA secretly collects airline passenger data

June 21, 2005

They don’t give up easily. After the failure of CAPPS II, the Transportation Stupidity Administration decided to start a new program along the same lines, called Secure Flight, which attempts to match air travelers against terrorist watch lists. Without bothering to tell anyone what they were doing. They created a secret database of air travelers [...]

Fudging the numbers: DOJ ordered redefinition of terror investigation

June 18, 2005

A few days ago I reported to you that the Bush administration had been overstating the number of terrorism-related prosecutions and convictions in the U.S. As it turns out, under the revised rules, just about anything could be a terrorism-related investigation. The Des Moines Register obtained copies of internal Department of Injustice memoranda which specifically [...]

U.S. extends deadline for biometric passports

June 17, 2005

Recall that the U.S. wants 27 countries to adopt biometric passports that the U.S. will be able to read easily. These countries, in the U.S. visa waiver scheme, were given an October 2005 deadline to comply with the biometric passport requirement, and the U.S. has extended the deadline to October 2006 after several countries complained [...]

Summer at the airport

May 28, 2005

As many of you know by now, airport delays are up this summer -- not because of flight delays, but because of security checkpoint delays. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has written a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking what they plan to do about it.

The national ID card wasn't enough

May 27, 2005

The Department of Homeland Security has decided that having national ID cards isn’t enough; now we have to have international ID cards. The U.S. is working with Great Britain and 26 other countries to use the same biometric chips in those countries’ passports as the new chip which will be used in U.S. passports, so [...]

Homeland Security wants more surveillance cameras

May 16, 2005

Bruce Schneier points to an article from EPIC titled "Spotlight on Surveillance" which analyzes the growing use of surveillance cameras in the U.S. Later on I'll show you a few of these cameras.

Terrorism will get worse before it gets better

December 5, 2004

Just as I predicted, the Muslim world hates the U.S. even more than ever, because of George W. Bush's so-called war on terror and the invasion of Iraq. Pentagon report states "Just as I predicted, the Muslim world hates the U.S. even more than ever, because of George W. Bush's so-called war on terror and the invasion of Iraq."

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