Kill Lists? Dems don't want to know

On national security, Obama routinely disregards the rule of law -- and his party remains willfully ignorant

(Salon) But, there’s also an additional way to read this...namely, as the predictable result of a political duopoly that so fundamentally agrees on extra-constitutional national security and civil liberties policies, that those policies are no longer permitted to be part of any “serious” national political discussion.

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The Plot Against Occupy

How the government turned five stoner misfits into the world's most hapless terrorist cell

(Rolling Stone) "The government has a responsibility to prevent harm," says former FBI counterterrorism agent Michael German, now the senior policy counsel for the ACLU. "What they're doing instead is manufacturing threatening events."

That's just how it went down in Cleveland, where the defendants started out as disoriented young men wrestling with alienation, identity issues and your typical bucket of adolescent angst. They were malleable, ripe for some outside influence to coax them onto a new path. That catalyst could have come in the form of a friend, a family member or a cause. Instead, the government sent an informant.

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