Author: Greg Stuessel

On Monday, The Daily Beast published a hugely important story about AT&T’s in-house, for-profit surveillance operation called Project Hemisphere. The program has nothing to do with information sharing legally required under a warrant, but rather consists of a business line through which the telecom giant stores customer data longer than peers in order to turn around and sell it to government agencies (no warrant required). This allows law enforcement to use secret and never disclosed evidence to build cases against citizens via a shady and unaccountable practice known as parallel construction.

What is going on in North Dakota? For weeks now information about the protests going on in North Dakota has been only skirting the mainstream. But, now, what started out as only private security forces have now turned into police and military equipment being brought in to handle the protests.