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Wired describes Lockheed Martin's 'Squad Mission Support System' ("SMSS") robot, now on patrol in Afghanistan:

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"We've actually picked up two vehicles today using the camera system, from historical data."

By the end of May 2012, almost the entire United States had been blanketed by an ICE storm. 

The remaining “Secure Communities”-free zones had dwindled to two states (Alabama, which was only 55 percent activated) and Illinois (25 percent activated) as well as the District of Columbia.

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The Chicago police officer in the video above sounds he is moonlighting for the NYPD at #OWS when he says "I don't care about no damn lawsuit" before cuffing NBC journalists for standing on a public street and filming.

Photo credit: Essam Sharaf

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After NSA whistleblowers accused the secretive, behemoth military snooping agency of dragnet electronic surveillance, Representative Hank Johnson asked the head of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, some tough questions.

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Listen to Jacob Appelbaum discuss so-called "cyber security" legislation and electronic surveillance. The clip was filmed before the House passed CISPA; a similar bill is currently working its way through the Senate.

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