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BREAKING: The federal government has been illegally surveilling and building profiles for Americans in secret portal called DSAC for those who oppose firearm restrictions, lockdowns & vaccine mandates, and or support border security and are labeling them as domestic extremists.

Senate confirms new director for spy agency, cyber command WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed on Tuesday President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency, Army Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone. Nakasone has an extensive background in cyber issues, having held positions including serving as chief of the U.S. Army’s cyber command since late 2016. Nakasone, 54, replaces Admiral Mike Rogers, who is retiring after nearly four years in the “dual-hat” position leading the NSA, the country’s largest spy agency, and the military’s cyber warfare division. During his confirmation hearing, Nakasone said he did...

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html Their state supreme court ruled you can not stop a police officer from illegally entering your home. They can enter for any reason, no warrant, without pause. You must let them enter and seek remedy in the courts, if the entry is in fact illegal....

Illegal immigration may become one of the most fiercely debated issues when the state Legislature reconvenes in January. A panel of Georgia House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday met with more than a dozen law enforcement officials from across the state to get ideas for legislation that would crack down on crime committed by undocumented im- migrants.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 - As the mother of two young sons, Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush's domestic security adviser, believes that families need to know as much as possible about terror threats. That is part of the reason Ms. Townsend has moved from the shadows to a center stage role as an advocate of raising the threat level with urgent warnings of a possible attack. "I don't want the government to make decisions for me and my kids," she said in a recent interview, in which she added that the government was much better prepared to detect and deter terrorist...

<p>Author Bruce Schneier discusses why the Patriot Act and other anti-terror measures mean "giving up a lot -- and not getting very much"</p> <p>Bruce Schneier is a rare creature in the computer-security world. Although he made his name as an alpha geek in cryptography and later, as chief technology officer of Net-security outfit Counterpane, Schneier can also speak to laypeople about the general security matters that increasingly touch all of our lives.</p>

Senate Democrats struggled furiously today to reach a compromise on worker rights in an effort to get the stalled homeland security bill moving again. With Republican demands for immediate action growing louder, several moderate Democrats gathered behind a proposal that would allow a president to deny workers in the proposed Homeland Security Department collective bargaining rights in the event of a national security emergency. It would, however, allow the workers the right to appeal to the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Democrats want to curtail that power for the huge new security department, fearing that President Bush would use national security...

June 18, 2002 The Under Secretary of Transportation for Security, John W. Magaw, today announced the five airports selected to participate in the Private Security Screening Pilot Program -- intended to test the feasibility of having private contractors perform federally supervised passenger and property screening at airports. Airports chosen for the two-year pilot program are San Francisco International, Kansas City International, Greater Rochester International in New York, Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming, and Tupelo Airport in Mississippi. “The airports selected for this pilot program will be key in determining how TSA moves forward in meeting provisions under the Aviation and...