NBC News – by Michael Isikoff

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, said Holder had agreed to review Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists.   Continue reading “Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says”

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, CO - A serviceman stands outside a pair of giant blast doors at the command center of the Northern Command December 9, 2002 located deep within Cheyenne Mountain at the foot of the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Cold War-era station now monitors homeland security as well as foreign nuclear threats. Every commercial plane in U.S. air space is monitored from the center. Crews reporting unruly passengers or planes that drop from radio contact are given special attention since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (Photo by Kevin Moloney/Getty Images)IntelliHub – by Shepard Ambellas

The whole concept of Continuity of Government (COG) was originated by the British government during World War II, then was later adopted by the US and other world governments. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first US president to start implementing such a plan as COG, he put it on the table.   Continue reading “Continuity of Government Redefined to Suspend US Constitution”

Boy Scouts salute early Saturday morning, May 21, 2011 during New Jersey's Boy Scouts Camporee in Sea Girt, N.J. The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)How does an agenda like this even become an issue?  I mean, really, is there a problem with boy scouts wishing they could declare themselves gay?  We are talking children here.  Show me one 13 year old on the news crying because he can’t tell the boy scouts he’s gay….  This is really about the homosexual agenda, just like the church, the prime time shows, everywhere.  It’s part of the plan of you know who.

Did you notice the pic?  They chose the dumpiest boy scout to be the poster boy of the new Gay Scouts of America.   Continue reading “Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys”

FEMA disk given to school children (Photo: Cassius Methyl, Intellihub.com)IntelliHub – by Cassius Methyl

Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps?

FEMA , the Red Cross, and the department of homeland security are now using taxpayer money to educate children in public schools about ‘getting ready for disaster’. But why would government agencies hold interest in this? Is it because they want schools to be safer, or because they want citizens to flee to FEMA camps in a time of crisis?   Continue reading “Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids To Go To FEMA Camps In a Time of Crisis”

ABC News – by Jonathon Karl

President Obama is a little uneasy with the way journalists have been dragged into the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of national security leak investigations. In fact, he has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a 45-day review of the department’s guidelines on the issue.

That bit of news was buried in the middle of the president’s hourlong speech today at National Defense University.   Continue reading “Obama Orders DOJ Review of Leak Investigations”

Connecticut Gun Law Challenged in Federal CourtThe New American – by Jack Kenny

Connecticut’s seven-week-old gun law, passed in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook School in Newtown in December, has been challenged in federal court. A coalition of individuals, gun retailers, sports shooters, and gun rights activists entered a suit in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport Wednesday, asking for a declaration that the law is unconstitutional and both a preliminary and a permanent injunction against its enforcement.   Continue reading “Connecticut Gun Law Challenged in Federal Court”

The Mercury – by Tom Cleary

A bill crafted in secret by Connecticut’s chief prosecutor,governor’s office and legislators would prevent the release of some Newtown school shooting investigation records, including crime scene photos and videos and 911 recordings.

A draft of the proposal was released by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office Wednesday afternoon, a day after the Hartford Courant reported on the efforts to create the bill.   Continue reading “Connecticut bill would limit public access to records of Sandy Hook shooting”

12160 – by ralph hornsby

Remember that scene in Scarface?

Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.   Continue reading “2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Arrest “FALL” Out of Helicopter and Die”

Business Week -by Timothy R. Homan

The U.S. Senate voted 99-0 to adopt a resolution calling for continued and stronger sanctions against Iran.

The resolution, S. Res. 65, also includes a statement of support for Israel if that nation decides to act against Iran.   Continue reading “U.S. Senate Votes to Endorse Continuing Sanctions Against Iran”

Breitbart -by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

On Tuesday, an estimated 175 Tea Party activists protested outside the IRS office in the suburban Chicago community of Downers Grove. Here’s a report from someone who attended the event:

What surprised many was a Homeland Security vehicle came past the protest twice. As you can see from the picture, the vehicle had tinted windows so we are unsure if there were any cameras inside. Were pictures taken of the attendees? Will any of the attendees now be further targeted by the IRS or Homeland Security?   Continue reading “Homeland Security Monitors Tea Party Protests at Chicago, Los Angeles, and St. Louis IRS Offices”

The Petition

Whereas the 2nd Amendment recognizes the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and whereas the right to keep and bear arms need not be demonstrated, and whereas Adam Kokesh’s planned armed march into Washington DC is an unnecessary and dangerous provocation that may be used to demonize guns and gun owners, the undersigned petitioners, while supporting the right to keep and bear arms, state their opposition to Adam Kokesh’s planned armed march into Washington DC on July 4th, 2013.

Continue reading “I do NOT support Adam Kokesh’s armed march in DC!”

NBC News – by Richard Esposito, Pete Williams and Matthew DeLuca

A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed after attacking an FBI agent during questioning in Florida, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.

The man who was shot, Ibragim Todashev, 27, allegedly attacked an agent with a knife. He was not suspected of having played any role in the bombing that killed three people and injured scores more in April, but he did confess to being involved in a brutal Boston-area slaying two years ago, investigators said.   Continue reading “Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect shot during FBI questioning”

LA Times- by Richard Simon and Melanie Mason

WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status.

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’ exempt organizations unit, spoke deliberately and crisply in her opening remarks to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the first time she has appeared before Congress since she revealed earlier this month that the division she oversaw inappropriately screened and questioned tea party and other groups seeking nonprofit status.   Continue reading “Top IRS official pleads the 5th Amendment at testy House hearing”

Mass Privatel

Wisconsin – Police work that has traditionally been conducted in public view is increasingly being shielded, as insurance companies and municipal attorneys throughout Wisconsin push departments to withhold names from reports due to liability concerns.

A long-ignored federal privacy law is driving the redactions, interpreted by some municipal leaders to overrule a state public records law that says the full reports should be released.    Continue reading “Secret arrests by police in Wisconsin is this Big Brother’s future for Americans?”

ars technica – by Casey Johnston

NASA has bestowed a $125,000 grant upon a research corporation to pursue the development of 3D-printable food, according to a report from Quartz. Anjan Contractor, who runs Systems & Materials Research Corporation, hopes to design a system that will turn shelf-stable cartridges of sugars, complex carbs, and protein into edible food on demand.   Continue reading “3D-printable food? NASA wants a taste”

Antiwar.com – by Kelley B. Vlahos

WASHINGTON – Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court.

The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine.   Continue reading “Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge.

In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal status.   Continue reading “Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrants”

AlterNet – by  Iulia Filip

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) – A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused to give her her medicine – after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman’s daughter claims in court.

Ayunna Johnae London sued St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles, jail administrators Austin Nash and Terry Marcrum, Southern Healthcare Partners, and its employee Jennifer Eisel, in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Elderly Woman Dies in Court “Gasping for Breath” After Sheriff’s Deputies “Callously” Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims”