Terrorism – Page 2

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October 21, 2007April 21, 2008 John Action, Chris Cooper, Crime, Drama, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Peter Berg, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, The Kingdom, Thriller

When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team (Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman) and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter.

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More Constitutional Erosion

July 29, 2007 John FISA, george bush, president, Surveillance, Terrorism, Terrorists

In his weekly radio address Bu$h demanded that Congress update the laws governing electronic surveillance. Now why would George give a damn about whether the law is up-to-date or not. It’s not like the Cheney/Bush Administration is following any of the laws anyway.

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And Away Goes the Fifth Amendment

July 19, 2007 John Fifth Amendment, Guardian, Secretary of The Treasury, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treasury Department

President Bush unveiled an executive order that allows the administration to block bank accounts and any other financial assets that might be found in this country belonging to people, companies or groups that the United States deems are working to threaten stability in Iraq.

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Civil Penalties if Authorities Merely Misinterpret Your Intentions

May 9, 2007April 21, 2008 John Boston, Hoax, MA, Mooninites, Senate Bill 735, Stupidity, Ted Kennedy, Terrorism, Terrorists, Thomas Menino

Sen. Kennedy’s bill, S. 735, the so-called Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007. The act would, among other things, attach civil liability to anyone whose actions were misinterpreted by authorities as being a hoax and who didn’t immediately notify those authorities about the actual nature of the incident.

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Watch List Datamart

April 9, 2007April 9, 2007 John Authoritarianism, Database, facism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Terrorist, Watch List

The master list the federal government keeps of known and suspected terrorists, from which other government agencies derive their own watch lists, already hundreds of thousands of names large, is growing out of control, filling with “fragmentary,” “inconsistent” and “sometimes just flat-out wrong” information, a top counterterrorism official said.