Police State

Daniel Ellsberg knows Snowden has no chance at a fair trial in the US.

NSA collecting pictures of faces and putting them in its facial recognition database. Of course it is.
More on the Seattle cops' civil rights lawsuit claiming they have the right to inflict violence as they see fit.

"At present, in most of the country a police officer who brutalizes or kills somebody without moral justification can take refuge in the “totality of circumstances” test. In practice, this is nothing less than an unalloyed entitlement to kill first, and devise a suitable rationale after the fact."

Good insight into police state mentality.

LAPD gets some drones from Seattle and promises to use them for very limited reasons. The good guys in LAPD would never break a promise.

Feds investigate Icahn, Walters and Michelson for insider trading.