Sometimes the IP logging feature on LJ is a beautiful thing, especially when Homeland Security employees think they're being all badass by flaming you for your political views from work.

Back to work, you. I pay you to beat up Mexicans and lose the city of New Orleans, not click around on the internet like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.

We have a quasilegal military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The status of the prisoners there is precarious. Military justice applies, and events are recorded and public records made ( Read more... )

Secret police, makers of secret police fanclub TV show meet

This is worth reading just for the million dollar phrase "Moderated by Rush Limbaugh."

I didn't know that 24's sets person designed the operations center for the National Counterterrorism Thingy. That's hilarious.

Also. Clarence Thomas?

Also. Chertoff took time for this?

"The kangaroo is good for raising levels of awareness," said Reed.

Suspicious lamp prompts evacuationA Huntington Beach homeowner saw the object in a garage ( Read more... )

Government Can't Explain Change in 2002 TSA ContractThe modification to the contract involved switching the interview sites for tens of thousands of airline passenger screener jobs from a contractor's own assessment centers to hotels and luxury resorts ( Read more... )

During the big antiwar demonstration and also during the First Lady's appearance at the National Book Fair, sensors on the Mall picked up traces of tularemia, a deadly bacterial disease that has been weaponized. Choose your paranoia: was Big Brother trying to kill the antiwar demonstrators? Was Osama trying to whack Mrs. Bush? Who knows. But what ( Read more... )