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Obama’s secret plan to harvest personal data from social networking websites

Posted on September 3, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Ken Boehm reports that the: NLPC [National Legal and Policy Center] has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails,…

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Opinion: Obama takes stand for secrecy, executive power

Posted on September 3, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Over on Politico, Josh Gerstein writes: President Barack Obama’s administration is escalating a legal showdown which has the Justice Department defending official secrecy and executive power with arguments more associated with former Vice President Dick Cheney than the White House’s newest occupants. On Wednesday afternoon, the Justice Department filed an appeal and a request for…

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Philly cop accused of running criminal background check on Obama

Posted on August 8, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Philadelphia’s police department is investigating why an officer used his police car’s computer to run a criminal background check on President Barack Obama. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Friday the officer could face discipline for performing the check Wednesday morning. The Secret Service alerted the department after it learned about the incident from National Crime…

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Congress delays debate on gay ban

Posted on June 27, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Congress seems intent on delaying any debate on repealing the military’s ban on open service by gays until next year. As the House passed its version of the 2010 defense authorization bill, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee talked about having hearings later this year on the possible repeal of the so-called “don’t…

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