Since DHS doesn’t seem willing or able to do its job, Congress should clarify the situation lest those coming here seeking sanctuary and freedom will continue to be thrown into camps or turned back to the very people they were fleeing.

the contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

In the post-9/11 rush to beef up intelligence, the government has outsourced everything from spy satellites to covert operations -- and well-connected companies are cashing in.

n countries such as the United States, whose economies are commonly, though inaccurately, described as "capitalist" or "free-market," war and preparation for war systematically corrupt both parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military goods and services.

I gave a talk this weekend (1/26/07) at the EPIC Privacy Conference on 'national security' and civil liberty related issues. I suggested during my talk that we need to reclaim our language from the state who has used it to distort the truth, misrepresent the facts and pollute the mental environment with toxic memes...

Like so many other disillusioned ex-CIA, FBI and other erstwhile spooks, Haig Melkessetian’s career was derailed for telling the truth.

Maine overwhelmingly rejected federal requirements for national identification cards on Thursday, marking the first formal state opposition to controversial legislation scheduled to go in effect for Americans next year.