P a t r i o
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Terrorism and the Oklahoma
City Bombing (1995) Investigative journalist Jayna Davis has discovered evidence that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had connections to Middle Eastern
terrorists and did not act alone in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In her recently published book, The Third
Terrorist: the Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing, she tells about an alarming connection
between Nichols and al Qaeda agents in the Philippines. The evidence and witness testimony she gave to the FBI was at
first refused. Later, in 1999, when they took her evidence to be used in the court case against Nichols, her "documents simply
disappeared" and were not used in the trial. Davis has predicted in interviews that the next terrorist attack in the US may
be a "softer target" such as a shopping mall, theater or hospital. She is the only person who has dedicated years to the discovery
of evidence that may yield justice for the hundreds of citizens who lost family and friends in the Oklahoma City bombing.
She asks if 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if the FBI had only interviewed a single documented witness in 1995. (Source:
jaynadavis.com )
USA
Patriot Act and American Civil Liberties Union
The Department of Justice
is expected to introduce a sequel, dubbed Patriot II, that would further erode key freedoms and liberties of every American. Just
45 days after the September 11 attacks, with virtually no debate, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. Many
parts of this sweeping legislation take away checks on law enforcement and threaten the very rights and freedoms that we are
struggling to protect. For example, without a warrant and without probable cause, the FBI now has the power
to access your most private medical records, your library records, and your student records... and can prevent anyone from
telling you it was done. more...
The USA Patriot Act and Libraries
Library managers around the US are worried about government
measures
that infringe on the civil rights of library users.
Source: American Libraries Association. more...
Data Privacy Lab at Carnegie
Mellon Univ.
The Camera Watch project is part
of their Surveillance of Surveillances ( SOS) effort. They are constructing
a repository of links to publicly availableon-line webcams, where the webcams of interest are those that observe the public
in public spaces. more...
