Police State

More on police stealing naked pictures from phones and sharing them with peers.

The deep state.

"How do Wall Street, oil companies and the shadow government agencies like the CIA and NSA really shape the global political order?
That’s the question author Peter Dale Scott examines in his forthcoming book “The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy,” due out on Nov. 12. Scott, a professor emeritus of English at Berkeley and former Canadian diplomat, is considered the father of “deep politics”—the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected."

Don't forget Google.

"But a much larger role for the private sector has come with the increased outsourcing of the government’s intelligence budget. Tim Shorrock revealed in 2007 that “about 70 percent of the estimated $60 billion the government spends every year on . . . intelligence” is now outsourced to private intelligence contractors like Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now Booz Allen Hamilton) and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation). (4)"

That would be good news if it was true, but I don't believe it.

People trust NSA more than Google. Apparently they haven't figured out the two are basically the same organization.

The AP is unhappy the FBI put up a fake website using its name to catch a crook. Poor AP. They support government abuse of the rest of us, but whine it happens to them.

FBI posed as hotel repairmen and entered rooms without warrants. The AP would be all for that because they don't own a hotel.