Quantcast
Channel: Jon Taplin's Blog » Surveillance
Browsing all 10 articles
Browse latest View live

Carly Fiorina–Perfect For McCain

Carly Fiorina has replaced embarrassed UBS bag man Phil Gramm, as the public face of McCain’s Economic team. Not only does she flat out lie in this clip about Obama’s tax plan, her own past history is...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

John Lennon Talks

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. John...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Obama, FISA,Faith & Iran

Readers of this blog know that I have been a supporter of Barack Obama since I first met him at a party David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Speilberg threw in February of 2007 to intoduce...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Your Weekend Reading Assignment

James Bamford is our smartest writer on the NSA. The Puzzle Palace was the first important book on the Agency. His piece in The Atlantic on NSA’s real collection capacity is scary. NSA personnel, the...

View Article

1 Million Terrorists

You will be happy to hear that Homeland Security’s terrorist watch list will hit 1 Million names tomorrow. Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program, spoke today along...

View Article


Is Posse Comitatus No Longer The Law?

As Roger MacNamee points out, the deployment of the 3rd Infantry inside the U.S. on active duty seems to violate one of the founding laws of the Republic–Posse Comititus Act. “The PCA generally...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bush's Constitution-Lite Zone

The U.S. Government has long maintained a policy that they have the right to stop and search anyone at the border. The Department of Homeland Security is now taking the position that “the border” is...

View Article

America 3.0 on You Tube

USC/Annenberg School has put a new version of my America 3.0:Rebooting After the Crash up on their You Tube Site. Watch it in the High Quality Setting. It will be up on I Tunes U next week as a free...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

So True

From this week’s New Yorker, the amazing Roz Chwast.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

United States of Secrets

The Frontline documentary, United States of Secrets, Pt. 1 is one of the most important television programs of the last decade. It is a tale of how Dick Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, remade...

View Article
Browsing all 10 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images