The National Security Agency threatened to label technology executives traitors and send them to prison if they did not collaborate with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has told reporters. Releasing any data about the surveillance programs would have ...
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Silenced: Jailed US Journalist Can’t Discuss NSA Spying
A federal court in Texas has effectively denied an imprisoned reporter and his attorneys’ right to freedom of speech with a so-called gag order — preventing him from discussing US surveillance efforts. The order is only the latest action that ...
Read More »Police Brutality: Man Alleges He Was Beaten, Tortured – But Not Charged
A California man claims that police officers tossed him in a jail cell, beat him, and then took away his clothes. If David Scott Byrket’s story is accurate, he was released two days after the ordeal, without any charges being ...
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