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I will not pretend to know Knowshon Moreno's projected ability as an NFL player. There are people in the league who are paid good money to throw that dart and make that guess -- and it is that, an educated guess, nothing more.
But I will repeat what I have been saying since the day the Eagles were eliminated from the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals: they need to come out of this off-season with a running back who can step in and play immediately.
I know everybody in town wants a wide receiver. But go game-by-game last year and really look at it -- look at the situations where many of the games turned -- and the Eagles' depth at running back was their greatest problem. When Brian Westbrook limped, they were limp. They had Correll Buckhalter last year and they had Tony Hunt for part of last year and it wasn't enough. They weren't good enough all-around backup running backs. They didn't know the plays. They couldn't pick up blitzes. They couldn't be trusted, not enough, when Westbrook was nicked. And now both of them are gone and Westbrook is coming off of what has been described as minor off-season knee surgery. There is no backup plan currently in place that is worth talking about.
They do have until August to find somebody. But given Westbrook's history, the somebody can't just be anybody. I remember they got Dorsey Levens late one summer, and he was decent, but this is a big spot here and waiting that long is an enormous risk. It is not a risk they can afford to take.
So they need a running back, and he needs to be camera-ready. The Eagles cannot afford to get out-maneuvered here and they cannot allow the vagaries of draft day -- "there's a run on running backs!" -- to prevent them from doing this.
History says it won't be a first-round guy. But the Eagles have never faced the current set of imperatives: a crying need and the certainty that the guy is going to have to play immediately. Could a second- or third-round guy play right away? Sure. Could a second- or third-round guy be a better value in the long run? Sure. The league is full of just such guys, including Westbrook.
But the odds get longer the longer they wait, and the Eagles cannot miss on this. Cannot. Because this isn't a rebuilding team, not with Donovan McNabb at quarterback. This is all about now, about right now.
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Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews has been ruled out for Sunday night's game against the New York Giants due to a hamstring injury.
The star pass rusher missed last week's win over the Detroit Lions and didn't practice all week.
Matthews has 31 tackles and nine sacks in nine games this season.
Wide receiver Greg Jennings is listed as questionable. The Western Michigan product continues to recover from groin surgery and was a limited participant in practice all week. He hasn't played since Week 4.

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Munson passes on pro baseball career for SDSU
After signing his National Letter of Intent with San Diego State back in February to play linebacker for the Aztecs, Calvin Munson thought about not even playing baseball for St. Charles (Mo.) Francis Howell this past season.
But Munson ultimately decided it would be fun to play out his senior baseball season with his friends. So every time he stepped to the mound or into the batter's box, the pitcher/first baseman was cool, calm and collected. There was no pressure to do well and impress the Major League Baseball scouts at his games, since his future was already decided.
Then wouldn't you know it, Munson had a monster year. He led Francis Howell to a Missouri Class 5 state championship and a 33-5 record. On the mound, he had a perfect 9-0 record with a 0.64 ERA and 74 strikeouts. He also batted .434 with 46 RBI and nine home runs, while sporting a .496 on base percentage and .796 slugging percentage.
Needless to say, those same pro scouts that Munson felt no need to impress were quite impressed. The St. Louis Cardinals -- his hometown team -- selected Munson with the 935th overall pick in the 31st round of the MLB Draft, and all of a sudden he had another option to think about.
"I was all football going into the baseball year, and I was still doing football workouts," Munson said. "I was even considering not playing baseball, but I decided to do it and have some fun with my friends. I was just going to have fun with it and I didn't think much of it. I succeeded and did really well. I was still all football, but the Major League Baseball Draft door opened up and I really considered it. I didn't know why God would open that door and not want me to consider it."
So after 10 days of deliberation and weighing the options, Munson made his big decision on Tuesday and announced it to the world via Twitter:
After thinking and praying I made my decision, looks like I won't be ending my football career on a loss. Passion over money #football- Calvin Munson (@calmunson) June 18, 2013
"I put in a lot of consideration, but in the end it's where your passion is at, and my passion is in football," said Munson, who passed up the Cardinals and a $100,000 signing bonus to join SDSU and begin his college football career.
"In a way it was cooler because it was my hometown team, but a baseball team is a baseball team and it's the same. You can get traded, so joining the Cardinals wasn't a set thing. Just the fact that it was the Cardinals was cool, but in the end I don't think it made it much harder.
"It didn't make sense for me money-wise to turn down a full scholarship for school. In the end, even if it were a bigger money amount, it wouldn't have been worth it because my passion is for football."
Munson plans to head down to San Diego on July 1, then the Aztecs start summer school July 8. In the meantime, he's busy working out and preparing to make the transition to Div. I football.
But at the end of the day, if football doesn't work out then Munson says baseball will definitely be an option he would explore. The Cardinals have already told him they'd be happy to give him a tryout in the future.
"If football doesn't work out, then I'm a competitor and I always will be one," Munson said. "If the football door ever closes then I'm definitely going to try to re-open that baseball one for sure."


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A fortnight ago, we wrote that we couldn't understand why Bodemeister was rated over Union Rags in the weekly NTRA Poll, reasoning that two runnerup finishes does not equal one classic victory in the world of accomplishment.
In my view, opinion as to which is the "better horse," or which has the better chance to earn a divisional or Horse of the Year title at year's end is not germane: Opinion is not fact; accomplishment should be the barometer.
I asked an NTRA representative about voting guidelines and was informed that the only hard and fast "rule" is that a horse must have competed within the calendar year and that the organization did not want to impose restrictions on its voters.
Recently, Steve Haskin of Bloodhorse.com wrote that I'll Have Another, retired last month, ranked #1 with on his list because no horse in 2012 accomplished as much as he did. I for one certainly can't argue with that line of reasoning.
As a result of Haskin's comments, the Twitterverse came alive with opinions that came in all shapes and sizes, from voters and non-voters alike. This prompted an e-mail response to voters from NTRA with suggested guidelines, which we've culled below.
"Voters are to select horses that have raced at least once in North America. Horses can be of any age or sex. The vote should not be based purely on how much money the horse has earned. A vote can be cast for a horse who may have retired during the current calendar year.
"Ultimately, the last NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll of the season should be representative of who may be selected as Horse of the Year," concludes the advisory.
Final results from the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll – July 9, 2012:
Chart includes Rank-Name-Age-Sex-Starts-1st-2nd-3rd-Points-First Votes-Previous Week
1 Game On Dude 5 G 4 3 0 0 415 (18) 3
2 Ron The Greek 5 H 4 2 2 0 394 (10) 1
3 Mucho Macho Man 4 C 4 3 0 1 360 (4) 15
4 Shackleford 4 C 4 2 0 1 337 (4) 2
5 Royal Delta 4 F 3 1 1 0 252 (5) 5
6 Wise Dan 5 G 2 1 1 0 209 4
7 I'll Have Another 3 C 4 4 0 0 164 (8) 6
8 Acclamation 6 H 1 1 0 0 115 7
9 Bodemeister 3 C 6 2 4 0 106 (1) 10
10 Union Rags 3 C 4 2 0 1 70 11
Other horses receiving votes:
Alternation (66), Caleb's Posse (52), It's Tricky (36), Successful Dan (27), Groupie Doll (23), Hymn Book (17), Nates Mineshaft (17), Awesome Feather (15), Richard's Kid (14), Fort Larned (9), Awesome Maria (8), Musical Romance (7), Turbo Compressor (7), Amazombie (4), Caixa Electronica (4), Paynter
To illustrate, and for the record, my top six horses this week were: Game On Dude; Ron The Greek; Shackleford; Mucho Macho Man; Royal Delta and I'll Have Another. (I will rank I'll Have Another #1 next week).
The guidelines provided this week were a bit different than what I was led to believe earlier; no harm, no foul. The recent clarification gets us all closer to truth, the meaning of what a "Top Thoroughbred Poll" should be.
Parenthetically, the NTRA Poll shouldn't be simply an interesting list for mainstream sports consumption but also a guideline for horsemen into the thought process of most voters; an approximation of where their horse's rank in the championship picture.
Serious questions remain, of course: Shouldn't It's Tricky, e.g., the presumed leader of the 3-year-old filly division, be ranked somewhere in the Top 10 with the likes of I'll Have Another, Bodemeister and Union Rags?
An orange shouldn't suffer discrimination because it's not an apple and, in my view, accomplishment trumps opinion every time.
Should Acclamation's one victory this year, albeit a big one, count more than Alternation's winter and early spring campaign? Shouldn't all divisional leaders somehow be acknowledged in any compilation of top American Thoroughbreds?
Unfortunately, that must be taken as a "no." Mainstream media doesn't care about 3-year-olds after the Triple Crown, and it will only provide space for one list.
On Monday, 50 media members voted in the NTRA Poll. Haskin and seven others ranked I'll Have Another #1. But others, however, left him off entirely which seems completely unfair because not including him in any Top 10 list apparently is more an indictment of the trainer than the horse.
And, sorry, until there's some kind of evidence that I'll Have Another won any or all of those Grade 1s with a performance-enhancing substance coursing through his body, this terrific race horse does not deserve to be disrespected in such a manner.
In the future I will vote accordingly, with a "loosely reflective" on the Horse of the Year leader in the clubhouse and whose accomplishments on the racetrack get him/her closer to that goal.
Right now, and until season's end, opinion and perception has an edge on accomplishment, as that barometer can only be known when all the year's racing is done. It will still be opinion, of course, but backed by the record.
Besides, even non-fans know it's a difference of opinion that makes a horse race.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Aquarium has lost part of its fish collection after being flooded by the superstorm and having its equipment extensively damaged.
The Wildlife Conservation Society runs the aquarium. It says in a statement the aquarium's "walruses, sea lions, seals, sea otters, sea turtles and sharks are all fine."
Friday's statement says most of the fish that were lost were in an exhibit tank workers couldn't immediately reach after the storm.
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For well over 50 years, the United States has been involved in the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's), better known as drones.
For well over 50 years, the United States has been involved in the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's), better known as drones. With today's advanced technology, drones have become an important part of our military arsenal and are vital weapons to our national security. They have been widely used in the Middle East conflict. They are excellent surveillance-gathering devices, and most Americans support their use against a potential adversary.
During the last several years, questions have arisen about drones being used as a surveillance-gathering tool in the United States against its citizens. These concerns have caught the attention of legislators, both in the U.S. Congress and in state government.
In the U.S., drones are mostly associated with military uses, but other government agencies and businesses, private corporations, and individuals are finding numerous uses for drones. One example of drone use is in the effort to protect our nation's borders. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, has been using drone surveillance since 2005. They currently own 10 drones.
Drones are getting smaller in size and are now more cost efficient. With this affordability, it is predicted that in the next five years there will be a substantial increase in the number of drones used in our nation. They are a powerful and highly sophisticated surveillance tool and are capable of collecting valuable information with high-tech systems, such as cameras and other devices. Even now they can scan a license plate from the air.
In January of 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration, seeking a release of information about drone usage in the United States. As a result of this lawsuit, the FAA had to release names of all public and private groups who have applied to fly drones domestically. According to this information, there are hundreds of drones in operation in the United States. The documents that were released describe the location and the identity of owners of domestic drones throughout the country. The Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Homeland Security are some governmental entities that operate drones. In addition, here are several university research departments who use them, as well as several of our nation's larger cities' police forces—such as Seattle, Houston, and Miami.
This week the Missouri House Committee on Agribusiness held a hearing on House Bill 46, otherwise known as the Preserving Freedom from the Unwarranted Surveillance Act. This bill would prohibit any person or state department—except law enforcement—from deploying unmanned aircraft over private property without prior consent. Police officers or law enforcement officials would have to have a warrant to use drones over private property. If a drone were involved in an active chase, then the warrant could be foregone.
Why am I writing about drones? In Missouri this past June, rumors surfaced that the EPA had dispatched drones from Kansas City, Kan. to investigate livestock operations who were believed to be polluting ground water. As it turned out, the EPA was flying small, piloted planes for this purpose in Iowa and Nebraska but not in Missouri.
Missouri and Nebraska are two of about eleven states—including Texas—that are considering anti-drone legislation this year. Texas has introduced the Texas Privacy Act, a piece of legislation that is being introduced there, that would ban the use of drones over private property. Though there are no Missouri state agencies involved in the use of drones at this time, privacy groups are concerned that the domestic use of drones for surveillance will lead to widespread drone misuse (spying) against our nation's citizens and infringe upon our right to privacy.
Drone usage in the United States has many legitimate, helpful uses, not only in crime prevention and investigation, but also for search and rescue operations, natural disaster and weather information-gathering purposes, and in fighting wildfires. But are the increased uses of drones in this country becoming a threat to our personal privacy rights? Is this useful piece of technology worth us taking a chance of having some of our privacy compromised? Could drone usage open the door for further intrusion into our personal, private spaces?
Today in the United States, individuals have very little, if any, legal privacy protection from aerial surveillance conducted from drones or airplanes. This fact was brought out in the Supreme Court decision Florida vs. Riley, that held that police officials do not need a warrant to observe individual's property from a public air space. What can be garnered from this decision is that individuals do not have the right to property privacy from police observation in the air. The key point here is no warrant is required for police observation from public air apace.
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Disclosures about National Security Agency cyber-spying on millions of Americans vividly illustrates how the federal government's check-and-balance system is out of balance.
Despite periodic attempts to assert itself, the legislative branch over time has settled into a secondary role to the executive branch on questions of national security. The dominance of the executive branch in the nuclear age – when presidents claimed the need to act on a moment's notice – continued into the age of terrorism with the claimed need for vast new spy powers handed over by Congress with the Patriot Act and renewed and extended ever since.
Lawmakers offered little resistance to American intervention in Libya two years ago, or to the use of American troops in central Africa and Uganda. Nor was there much demand for changes in the use of drones aimed at suspected terrorists in foreign countries, even after the administration disclosed last month that four Americans had been killed by strikes abroad.
Bowing to the president in the interest of protecting the nation has been commonplace for a century, ever since the U.S. became a major international player and had to react quickly to crises. "Presidents assumed power and got away with it," said Stephen Hess, a presidential historian at Washington's Brookings Institution who worked with four presidents.
Some of Congress' inability to act like a co-equal branch of government is rooted in the institution's nature. The president can act quickly and speak with one voice. Congress, divided between two parties and two chambers and featuring political factions ranging across the spectrum, cannot.
The executive branch has another built-in edge: The public routinely supports the president's ability to act decisively in times of crisis.
Even those who once urged more congressional advice and consent see events differently from inside the Oval Office.
In 2006, for example, Denis McDonough urged a more active role for Congress, in a study for the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group.
"Recent news headlines that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans without the knowledge of key congressional committees underscores the need for Congress to serve as the American public's watchdog in overseeing intelligence agencies," the 2006 study said. "Congress today has been negligent, with profound implications for the safety and security of America."
Now White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, McDonough argues that safeguards have been established so Congress has a stronger role.
Indeed, members of Congress have had access to information about the spy programs. But few have shown up to read the material.
"It's the perfect example of Congress handing over power to the executive branch and failing to keep up with it," said Jim Harper, a former congressional counsel and now director of information policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Congress thought it had given itself nearly equal billing by passing the 1973 War Powers Resolution. Approved after years of political conflict over Vietnam, it aimed to place new restrictions on presidents' military initiatives.
But "every president has taken the position that it is an unconstitutional infringement by Congress on the president's authority as commander in chief," Richard Grimmett, a Congressional Research Service international specialist, said in a report. Courts have not directly addressed the issue.
"The war powers act is routinely violated these days," said Jim Manley, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "In recent years Congress has tended to defer to the executive branch when it comes to national security-related issues."
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The IRS
- Total number of individual tax returns for fiscal year 2012: 146 million.
- Total number examined or audited: 1.5 million (1%).
- The IRS targeted more than 300 conservative applicants for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.
By Kevin Thibodeuax
The government knows how much money you earn, what you contribute to a church or charity, whether you had a lot of medical expenses, or moved in the past year.
Americans filing tax returns supply the Internal Revenue Service with a Social Security number, the names of their dependents, salary, and other forms of income, such as stock dividends.
And many supply the federal government with more information, so they can deduct additional expenses from their taxable income.
They report moving expenses. Teachers' expenses. Donations to religious organizations or charities. Union dues.
This mass of information has been routinely collected for decades. But recent revelations showed that IRS agents also sometimes asked intrusive questions of conservative taxpayers seeking tax-exempt status for their organizations. And they may have targeted conservative taxpayers who donated to similar organizations.
Questions included whether or not the groups endorsed candidates and how they assessed candidates. Some groups were also asked to provide copies of press releases, op-eds, letters to the editor and interviews with the media about any of the topics they were trying to promote.
The IRS has apologized, and said it stopped asking those questions. FBI and congressional investigations are ongoing.
Credit cards and magnetic strips
- In 2009, there were 21.6 billion credit card transactions.
- Millions of magnetic particles form a strip on credit cards that records transaction information.
- The government can monitor when and where a credit card was used and how much was charged.
By Ali Watkins
Think Uncle Sam knows where you buy your coffee? He might be able to tell you the exact café.
Once your magnetic-striped credit card gets swiped, the information is fairly easy for the government to get.
That stripe on the back of your credit card is swiped through thousands of electronic readers every year. Millions of iron-based magnetic particles form the black bar, each one 20-millionths of an inch wide. Individual particles can be alternated to point north or south to code information on to the card. That's how each credit-card holder has a personalized strip full of intimate data sitting right inside his pocket, and how each purchase he makes can be traced directly back to his wallet.
And the National Security Agency is monitoring just that.
Although the scope of credit-card tracking efforts are unknown, former NSA officials confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the NSA had established relationships with credit card companies akin to those that they had established with phone carriers, which provide them with data under warrant, subpoena or court order. These former officials didn't know whether the tracking was ongoing.
What could they find? The metadata — digitally contained bits of information — from a credit card could show when and where a purchase was made, and what it cost.
Experts don't believe the metadata shows what was purchased, but that information is associated with the card, and undoubtedly accessible.
In any credit card transaction, card holder data is passed between retailers and credit companies. According to Payment Card Industry security standards, retailers aren't supposed to hold on to that information unless it's deemed "absolutely necessary" by the retailer. Oversight is left largely to credit companies themselves. A tiny digital footprint is created when and where you swipe your card. This information, with a warrant, could be traced back to you whenever and wherever you use it, says cyber security expert Robert Siciliano.
- 91% of adults in the U.S. have cell phones, most of which are smartphones.
- In 2011, the government made 1.3 million requests for subscriber phone data.
- The FISA court has rejected just 11 out of 33,900 government applications for surveillance.
By Ali Watkins
We've got a Pandora's box in our pocket, which raises the question: How much can the government see when they open that box?
With the advent of Smartphones and SIM cards, cell phones are no longer strictly for storage of digits and 180-character messages. We use them to navigate roadtrips, to buy vintage boots on eBay, and to watch the game when we're stuck on the subway. We deposit checks with a bank app and a camera, find the closest Happy Hour, and board a train with the flash of a QR-code. It holds on to our coupons, our favorite cat videos, and functions as a credit card when we forget ours at home.
Recent reports have revealed that the National Security Administration is collecting subscriber information from major cell phone carriers. This information is primarily based on metadata, snippets of digital information which include the location and duration of calls, along with numbers dialed. This metadata doesn't include the call's content, which the government would need a warrant to access.
But, says American University School of Communication Professor Christopher Simpson, metadata can be at least as dangerous.
"The problem with [metadata] in terms of a democratic society is that it works on the assumption of guilt as distinct from an assumption of innocence," said Simpson. Suspects are identified through algorithms, he said, which can make many completely innocent cell-phone users appear suspicious.
Although the conversation about phone tracking has heated up in recent days, this is not the first time that Washington has come under scrutiny for looking through mobile devices.
In 2012, Rep. Ed Markey, D-MA, wrote to major cell phone carriers asking about government requests for information. His questions came in the wake of an April 2012 article in The New York Times, and offered a look into phone tracking from providers, including Sprint, Verizon, T- Mobile and AT&T.
These responses noted an increase in law enforcement requests for subscriber information in 2011, totaling 1.3 million requests.
And, carriers noted, there's a good chance that the number of customers whose information was obtained in 2011 is far greater than 1.3 million. One of those 1.3 million, for example, could be for tower data, which could include hundreds or even thousands of mobile users at any given time.
Although many of these requests should require warrants, or at least easier-to-get court-ordered subpoenas, carriers reported that officials could request information and label it as an "emergency" -- which allowed authorities to collect the information without formal legal documents.
These government requests, both from 2011 and more recently by the NSA, are limited to metadata. That doesn't mean that the content of conversations is off-limits. The government just needs a warrant, granted through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to listen in on calls.
Established in 1978 as a way to grant government surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists, the Court (FISA) has been considered by the Obama administration to provide "judicial oversight" of the government's phone tracking habits.
The court approves almost every request, fully denying just 9 out of 33,900 government applications for surveillance over its 33-year existence, according to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reports submitted to Congress.
The overwhelming rate stems in part because most requests go through an intense vetting process by department lawyers before ever going to the court, said Timothy Edgar, visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
By the time it gets in front of the court, he said, it's nearly foolproof.
- 742,713 people traveled by plane in the U.S. during 2012.
- TSA shares information with 6 airlines to make expedited pre-screening of passengers available.
- The TSA keeps information on frequent travelers for up to two years as part of the Known Travelers list.
By Trevor Graff
Attempting to make travel safe for the masses may endanger an individual citizen's privacy.
Travelers' personal data could be used to learn where a person is going, where they've been and in some cases even their purpose for going there.
The Transportation Security Administration and airlines collect personal data on a daily basis.
Passengers are required to submit Secure Flight Passenger Data to the airline when booking flights. Each traveler submits a name as it appears on a government issued ID, date of birth, and gender.
Once collected, the airline submits this data to TSA's Secure Flight, where it is used to perform several cross-checks with watch lists of suspected terrorists.
Once the names are examined and cleared, TSA returns the matching results to airlines to allow the issuance of boarding passes.
TSA says the data is collected, stored and then disposed of.
Information filed by frequent travelers for the government's Known Travelers list — which allows access to special security lines – is retained by the TSA Office of Intelligence and Analysis for up to two years.
The TSA says external sharing of data is prohibited unless the individual is involved in a security incident or is found on other watch lists.
There is no private-sector knowledge of how the information may be used to track passengers from airport to airport.
The State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program also collects travelers' information for government use.
International travelers can enroll in the program, giving the State Department personal information that allows them to keep track of travelers overseas. The program allows the department to send alerts and warnings to travelers.
It also assists the department in recovering U.S. citizens in international emergencies and natural disasters. The program assisted in evacuating 16,700 U.S. citizens from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and 15,000 in the civil unrest that embroiled Lebanon in 2006.
- The government can access your email with either a warrant or subpoena depending on how old messages are.
- Google granted about 90% of government requests for user data in 2012.
- Microsoft granted about 65% of government requests.
By Kate Irby
The government can read your email.
Access to an email sent within 180 days requires a warrant, while an email older than 180 days and email drafts only require a subpoena and prior notice.
Prior notice can be delayed up to 90 days if it would impede an investigation. Since email services such as Yahoo! and Hotmail offer unlimited storage space on email accounts, that represents an extensive level of access to information.
Google will provide email account creation information such as name, associated email addresses and phone numbers on a subpoena, and data from email headers (subject, sender, recipient and priority) under court orders.
However, citing Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure, a Google spokesperson said they refuse to supply any email content information to the government without a warrant even if the email is over 180 days old.
Government officials can read all the ingoing and outgoing emails on an account in real time if they acquire a specific type of wiretap warrant, which is granted with probable cause for specific crimes, such as terrorism.
Google received 16,407 user data requests concerning 31,072 users from the U.S. government in 2012. It granted about 90 percent of those requests.
Microsoft, with its Outlook/Hotmail email service, received 11,073 requests concerning 24,565 users, granting (at least partially) 65 percent of those requests.
- 30 million surveillance cameras are watching Americans.
- There are 4,000 cameras in part of Lower Manhattan alone.
- Cameras on toll roads and at intersections record car data that can be shared with insurance companies.
Americans are constantly being watched by one of the United States' estimated 30 million surveillance cameras.
Walking to work, withdrawing money from an ATM or even shopping at a favorite local grocer, we are within sight of a surveillance camera. Police use them to monitor streets, subways and public spaces. Homeowners put them on their houses. Businesses mount them in stores and on buildings.
In Boston, the FBI used still photos and video pulled from cameras to identify suspects after the Boston Marathon bombing. The images showed the suspects making calls from their cell phones, carrying what the police say were explosives, and leaving the scene.
In New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative uses 4,000 surveillance cameras in a 1.7 square mile area to track and combat crime, according to CNN. Through facial and object recognition technology, the cameras give the NYPD the ability to track people and cars through the networked area.
New high-tech, high-definition security camera manufacturers give police departments the options of thermal imaging, 360-degree fields of view, and powerful zoom capabilities for identifying people. Pelco even offers an explosion-proof camera designed for harsh environments such as the oil rigs of Alaska and offshore drilling sites in South America.
Whether these cameras help prevent attacks is a subject of debate.
Cameras helped police thwart a 2010 attack on Times Square in New York by tracking a vehicle packed with explosives.
But security analyst Bruce Schneier wrote in The Guardian, a British newspaper, that a police officer walking the street can easily respond to a crime as it happens while the officer manning the screen can only dispatch an officer to help, costing precious time in a volatile situation. In Schneier's opinion, cameras are only effective for gathering forensic evidence for use in investigations after the crime occurs.
Advances in camera technology enable new ways of monitoring American citizens.
Some states such as Colorado are using cameras as an alternative method of charging motorists toll fares. As a motorist drives through the toll lanes, motion-activated cameras capture an image of the license plate, and the driver is billed.
Traffic cameras are watching if you speed or run a red light, too.
Police departments in several metro areas began employing cameras to deter traffic infractions and raise revenue. Nine cameras placed on Washington, D.C.'s New York Avenue, for example, made more than $30,000 dollars a day in fiscal year 2011.
Libertarians and electronic privacy advocates oppose these methods, citing a lack of transparency in the use of the cameras and the retention of the data they collect. In some situations, EPIC Director Ginger McCall said, information from these traffic citations was kept indefinitely and released to third party insurance companies.
- The FAA expects 30,000 drones to patrol U.S. skies within 20 years.
- 81 agencies have been approved to use drones in the U.S.
- Drone wingspans range in size from 6 inches to 66 feet.
By Kevin Thibodeaux
For now, they're largely the unseen tools of warfare in far-off lands. But it's only a matter of time before fleets of drones fly over the U.S., providing surveillance from thousands of feet in the air.
As many as 30,000 domestic drones will travel the skies above U.S. soil within 20 years, according to a report for Congress by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Gearing up, Congress has called on the FAA to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national air system even sooner, by 2015.
Already, the FAA has approved domestic drone use by 81 agencies including schools, police departments and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of privacy advocates.
Among the applicants approved: the Arlington Police Department in Texas; California State University in Fresno; Canyon County Sheriff's Office in Idaho; the city of Herington, Kansas; the Georgia Tech Research Institute; Kansas State University; the Miami-Dade Police Department in Florida; the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; the Seattle Police Department; and the Universities of Alaska at Fairbanks, California-Davis and Florida.
In March, the American Civil Liberties Union addressed the dangers of domestic drones and warned of the surveillance capabilities of this technology. Although these drones range in size, most are able to hover tens of thousands of feet in the sky, collecting images of people on the ground below.
Websites selling this technology boast about these drones' high-resolution cameras.
Predator B drones, a type of unmanned aircraft that has a wingspan of 66 feet, have been used by the U.S. along its southern border of Mexico, according to the ACLU. The aircraft can reach an altitude of 50,000 feet, stay in the air for 27 hours and travel at speeds of nearly 300 mph.
Touted as having "persistent surveillance/strike capability for the war fighter," the Predator B drones can be equipped with electric-optic/infrared, a technology that allows for infrared imaging, night vision capabilities and range finding tools.
Lynx Multi-mode Radar can be used by these drones to provide photographic-quality images through clouds, rain, dust, smoke and fog, in daylight or total darkness with a range of nearly 50 miles.
Other drones come in smaller models, but can be equipped with the same technology allowing for high-quality surveillance from a great distance.
The ScanEagle, a smaller drone tested by the Houston Police Department, has a 10 foot wingspan and is only 4.5 feet long, roughly the size of a large pool table. The aircraft can stay in the air for 24 hours, travelling up to 19,500 feet in the air at more than 90 mph.
Smaller drones can measure 3 feet long, weighing around 4 pounds and be launched by hand. Drones of this size can stay in the air for almost two hours and reach heights of 14,000 feet.
The Nano Hummingbird, designed to look like its namesake, has a wingspan of 6 inches and weighs about as much as an AA battery. The miniature technology is equipped with a video camera to provide footage of its target.
"Based on current trends—technology development, law enforcement interest, political and industry pressure, and the lack of legal safeguards—it is clear that drones pose a looming threat to Americans' privacy," the ACLU report argued.
Computers and the Internet
- Government agencies can gain access to online behavior through warrants, subpoena, court order.
- Even a deleted Facebook account remains in backup logs for up to 90 days.
- Most search engines use cookies to keep user data for 180 days.
By Kate Irby
A quick Google search for a lunch spot? There's a record of that.
Arranging a vacation? Someone knows where you're planning to go. And do you check in with Facebook? The social network tracks all the sites you visit that have "like" buttons or allow you to sign in with Facebook – pretty much all of them.
If Internet giants can record so much about you, who can look at this electronic diary?
The government can access any emails, chats, searches, events, locations, videos, photos, log-ins and any information people post online with a warrant, which the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can grant secretly.
The revelation of Prism, a secret government program for mining major Internet companies, suggests the government could have direct access to Internet companies' servers without a warrant.
Every company whose data was mined — Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk and AOL — denied knowing about the program or providing direct access to their servers.
Each social media company has different standards and levels of access to private information that it will provide to the government.
Facebook, for example, only requires a subpoena for basic subscriber records, such as credit card information, name, length of service, email addresses and recent IP addresses of log-ins and log-outs. A subpoena usually only requires the signature of a court clerk, not one of a judge or magistrate.
Facebook requires a warrant for messages, photos, videos, wall posts and location information. Much harder to secure, the government must get the signature of a judge or magistrate for a search warrant. And it has to provide details on the information it seeks and the places to be searched, as well as facts that demonstrate a logical reason to believe that evidence in crimes would be found in those places.
Facebook also tracks other websites you visit that have Facebook features, such as the ability to sign in with Facebook or the "like" button. They can tell when you're on the site, the site URL and your user ID.
Deactivation of Facebook accounts does not remove any of the information they have stored on you. If you delete a Facebook account, which takes a month to do, some information remains in backup logs for up to 90 days.
Twitter, which was not involved in any Prism reports, requires a warrant for private communications such as direct messages. The company will disclose other private information about its users through subpoenas and court orders, though it will notify users before doing so unless law or court order prohibits it.
Google automatically stores certain information such as search terms, websites visited as a result of searches, IP addresses, private videos and location information, which can all be accessed if the government has obtained a warrant. Even if users have no account with Google, it can store their searches based on IP addresses.
If users have logged in and given them permission, search engines can keep users' search information indefinitely, though users can clear that history in their settings. Most will keep information on users' searches for 180 days through cookies, which can be deleted, then will anonymize search information after 18 months.
All of those companies specifically state in their privacy policies that they will not respond to overly broad or vague government requests for information.
- There were 153 million registered voters, in 2012, about 71.2% of the eligible population.
- 33 states record your party affiliation when you register to vote.
- In 2012, 1.5 billion people donated $200 or more to political campaigns.
By Kevin Thibodeaux
Americans may think their political opinions are a secret protected by closed curtains at the voting booth. But the federal government collects a slew of information regarding its citizens' politics.
Party affiliation, campaign donations as well as membership in some political groups that might be considered radical or extreme are all recorded by the federal government.
Individual donations to candidates and campaigns are reported to the Federal Election Commission – with the names, addresses and occupation of the contributor, the amount donated and the date.
This information is made public when people contribute more than $200. Contributions of less than $200 are reported but not revealed publicly – though the government still keeps the information on file.
The FEC uses this information to monitor contribution limits, according to Bob Biersack, a senior fellow with the Center for Responsive Politics and a former FEC staff member.
Federal law prohibits the use of the information for commercial purposes or for solicitation. Beyond that, it's fair game.
"The fact that that's published on the Internet, or it's available, means that it can be used in any number of ways," Biersack said.
Individuals who spend money independently, such as on a commercial endorsing a candidate, must then disclose that information the same as other contributors.
However, individuals donating to 501 (c)(4) organizations, tax-exempt groups labeled as social welfare organizations, do not have to be disclosed. The IRS acknowledged earlier this year that conservative groups applying for this tax exemption status had been more strictly scrutinized than other organizations.
Voter registration forms also collect a range of information on residents that are stored in government databases. Information ranges from a person's name and driver's license number to party affiliation.
These states record party I.D.'s when voting in a presidential primary: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii (for Democrats only), Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota (for Republicans only), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota (for Republicans only), Utah (for Republicans only), Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Getting involved in political causes can draw the attention of federal authorities.
In 2010, it was revealed that the FBI improperly investigated liberal and anti-war groups including Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for terrorism. The Justice Department's Inspector General said the moves were wrong and without basis.
This much is clear: Congress has adjusted its role in recent years so that "Congress does its best job at the front end and the back end," said Gary Schmitt, co-director of the American Enterprise Institute's Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies.
The usual pattern is that as a crisis unfolds, lawmakers often raise serious questions. If something goes awry, they try to put curbs on presidential action, which usually take a long time to approve let alone implement.
When President George W. Bush was considering invading Iraq in 2002, Democrats controlling the Senate held hearings on war and its aftermath.
But when the Bush administration argued that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction – a claim later proven false – Congress gave Bush broad bipartisan authority to act against Iraq and any others threatening the United States. On the back end, though, Congress got assertive. As popular support dwindled, and the war turned ugly, lawmakers raised new questions and debated withdrawal deadlines.
Just as the war demonstrated Congress' limits, so has the NSA controversy. Congress has offered little apparent resistance, though it did build some safeguards into the system.
A secret court must approve NSA data collection. Congressional intelligence committees routinely scrutinize the effort, as evidenced by the lack of surprise members expressed when news of the programs surfaced.
So, says Schmitt, don't think about Congress' role anymore in terms of what an equal branch of government might do. Think of the reality.
"Congress wrote the law, amended it and debated it," Schmitt said. "They wanted an executive who could act decisively and in secret. It's the kind of inevitable result of us being a world power."


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Carlos Munoz shot straight to the top of the Indianapolis 500 speed chart Sunday.
A little more than 24 hours after passing his rookie test, the Colombian narrowly averted a collision with teammate Marco Andretti in the first turn and posted the fastest lap in two practice sessions by going 223.023 mph on a cold, windy day.
Despite the near mishap, Andretti Autosport still claimed four of the top six spots Sunday. Defending series champ Ryan Hunter-Reay posted Sunday's second-fastest time at 222.825. Venezuela's E.J. Viso was third at 222.523. Andretti was fourth at 222.485 and James Hinchcliffe was sixth at 220.907.
The only non-Andretti driver among the top six was rookie AJ Allmendinger, who was fifth at 221.279. He drives for Penske Racing.
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Ralph Buss, 87 - March 18, 2009
Ralph C. Buss, 87, of Cozad, died Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at the Golden Living Center in Cozad.
Graveside services were held Friday, March 13, at the Block-Buss Cemetery north of Cozad with the Rev. Irwin Edwards officiating.
Buss was born on June 17, 1921, in Dawson County, to Chris and Ollie (Brewer) Buss. He attended school in rural Cozad, then went to work for several farming operations including Blocks, Kochs and Kinnans.
On June 20, 1952, he married Artis L. Coller at Cozad. The couple made their home at Cozad where they raised their children and lived their entire married life. She preceded him in death in 2004.
He was said to have operated the first "picker/sheller machine" used in Dawson County, according to family members. He retired from farming in the mid-1980's.
?Buss enjoyed his work and especially loved spending time with his family, said family members.
?He was preceded in death by: his wife, Artis; three grandchildren—Christopher, Toni and Tammie; a brother, Walter; sister, Freda Parsons.
?Survivors include: his daughter, Doris (Earl) Atteberry of Lincoln; a son, Jay (Gail) Buss of Cozad; brother, Arthur (Virginia) Buss of Cozad; sister, Margaret Buesing of Gothenburg; six grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
A memorial has been established. Condolences may be shared with the family at berrymanfuneralhome.com.
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by Barry Bennett
In an earlier post I updated George Orwell's Politics and the English Language for the 21st century, describing how, by creating a false picture of the political process, the word filibuster masks the undemocratic nature of our political system. In this post I describe how use of other words and phrases creates similarly false images that obscure an equally nefarious phenomenon: the destruction of the social contract and the continuing transfer of the country's wealth to a small elite.
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