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NYPD Deliberately Kept Reporters and Legal Observers Away During Zuccotti Park Raid
New York Daily News
November 16, 2011
The hundreds of cops who carried out the raid on Zuccotti Park deliberately kept the press and even legal observers away from the scene — thus hiding the city’s actions from public scrutiny.
Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly deny that. The nighttime sweep simply aimed “to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park . . . to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood,” Bloomberg claimed Tuesday.
The crackdown, of course, came just ahead of major solidarity marches planned for Thursday by unions and community groups on the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The biggest of those marches was planned for right here. Bloomberg’s raid will likely make Thursday’s march even bigger.
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“This heavy-handed act has made us more determined to support these kids,” one city union leader said yesterday.
There is, for instance, the case of City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Washington Heights), who rushed to Zuccotti Park when the raid started and was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
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Government GPS Spying - Lauren Weinstein - C2CAM - 2011.12.03
Privacy & Technology expert Lauren Weinstein joined Ian Punnett to provide an update on how the government is secretly using GPS devices to track people without search warrants.the government can turn on your cell phone's microphone through the gps chip and listen to your conversations... Even when the cell phone is off. Lauren Weinstein discusses a range of "Internet Freedom" issues, including your new car spying on you, Event Data Recorders and GPS tracking by police ,The Government legally use GPS to Track Your every Movement ,COICA legislation, domain seizures, top level domains (TLDs), DNS, privacy, security, Internet shutdowns, "Zombie" Cookies - Thoughts on the proposed "Do Not Track" list - Future of the pervasive Internet and associated policy issues - Can the entire Internet crash? (and reliability concerns) - The importance of transparency - The potential of wireless spectrum "White Spaces" - The politicizing of technology issues.bandwidth caps, ISPs, video competition, net neutrality, security, biometrics, Facebook, anonymity, top-level domain (TLD) controversies (e.g., "dot-ex-ex-ex"), Internet history, "Do-Not-Track" free speech, data retention, government and legal issues, censorship, DOJ, network neutrality,Facebook privacy issues and much more.
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Pentagon threats won't delay Bin Laden kill mission book's release
The US Defense Department is threatening to pursue “all remedies legally available” against the author of a forthcoming book about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The Pentagon says the former Navy SEAL breached nondisclosure agreements.
29.08, 17:01A firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not have a weapon or resist, as was announced.
06.03, 13:29The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks.
Stratforgate 23.08, 16:20A new book detailing the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, could lead to its author and publisher facing an investigation after it emerged the Pentagon had not granted permission for its publication.
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Cover fragment of No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Matt BissonnetteTAGS: Terrorism, Law, Literature, USA, PakistanThe publisher of a book purporting to chronicle an insider account of the Navy SEAL operation to raid Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound will begin sales on Tuesday, ignoring the Pentagon’s legal threats against the author.
Despite a potential lawsuit against the author of "No Easy Day," Penguin Books is not delaying or canceling its highly anticipated release.
“At this time, we see no reason to change our plans,” Christine Ball, spokeswoman for Penguin Group USA’s Dutton imprint, said in a statement. Rather than delay the book’s release, the publisher moved up its sale date from September 11 to September 4 “to let the book speak for itself.”
The publisher has also increased its initial print run from 200,000 copies to 575,000.
"No Easy Day” is a first-person account of the execution of the one of the world’s most notorious terrorist leaders, written from the perspective of Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette. It includes descriptions of the raid against Bin Laden that directly contradict the US government's official version.
Although the book doesn’t come out for several more days, its pre-orders have already brought it to the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s best-seller list, and some advance copies have already been released to the media.
It is unlikely that the government would try to halt publication of the book, but the Pentagon may still want to take legal action against Bissonnette for violating two nondisclosure agreements by failing to submit the book to a security review prior to publication.
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little is currently reading an advance copy of the book to determine the extent of the legal action his department can take against the author.
“Further public dissemination of your book will aggravate your breach and violation of your agreements,” the Pentagon’s top lawyer, Jeh Johnson, wrote in a letter faxed to the ex-SEAL.
The Pentagon is also “considering pursuing against you, and all those acting in concert with you, all remedies legally available to us in light of this situation,” he wrote.
Bissonnette’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, claims that his client has not breached any of his nondisclosure agreements and that the author had “sought legal advice about his responsibilities before agreeing to publish his book and scrupulously reviewed the work to ensure that it did not disclose any material that would breach his agreements or put his former comrades at risk.”
In a possible attempt to avoid government criticism, Bissonnette wrote in the author’s note, “If you’re looking for secrets, this is not your book.”
In a civil court case, the Justice Department could attack the book’s profits. Should the government win the case, it would reap a portion of, or all the profits – even if the book contains no classified information.
But if the Pentagon does determine that the book contains classified information, Bissonnette could have to answer to criminal charges in a federal court.
“Whether it is administration officials or Special Forces operators, national security leaks are wrong and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible,” said chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Peter King.
President of Special Operations-OPSEC Scott Taylor called on the Justice Department on Monday to block the book’s publication and distribution until the government has the chance to properly review it.
But the Penguin Group and Bissonnette are not backing down.
“Bisonnette’s fate is unclear, as is his book’s,” writes the New York Daily News.
But one thing is clear: the details of one of the most classified and contested US operations in history will soon make their way into more American living rooms than Washington ever expected.
Today: 04:20The California state legislature has passed a bill approving Google’s self-driving cars this week, allowing autonomous vehicles to be operated on state roads – including highways.
Today: 06:04Hundreds of people have taken part in the March on Wall Street South event in Charlotte, carrying banners, banging drums and chanting slogans against corporate greed. The protest ahead of the Democratic National Convention proceeded peacefully.
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