Salon.com > Natasha Lennard http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 03:47:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Assata Shakur first woman named on FBI most wanted list http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/assata_shakur_first_woman_named_on_fbi_most_wanted_list/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/assata_shakur_first_woman_named_on_fbi_most_wanted_list/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13288140 Forty years ago to the day, Assata Shakur (birth name JoAnne Deborah Chesimard) was involved in a shootout at the New Jersey Turnpike, which left a state trooper dead. Shakur, then a Black Liberation Army and Black Panther Party member, was convicted of his murder in 1973. In 1979, with the help of allies in the black radical movement, Shakur escaped from prison, eventually emerging in Cuba, where she has lived since 1984. As of Thursday --  the reward on her capture and return doubled to $2 million -- the 66-year-old fugitive was named the first woman on the FBI's most wanted list.

Shakur was herself wounded by police shots during the Jersey Turnpike shootout and one of her militant comrades was killed. Despite the case's verdict, many of Shakur's supporters -- and commentators rightly skeptical of the criminal justice's system treatment of black liberation activists at the time -- question Shakur's murder conviction. Deserving of further questioning: Why, after 40 years, is Shakur (whose chosen name means "she who struggles") worthy of a $2 million bounty and a spot among the FBI's most wanted?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/assata_shakur_first_woman_named_on_fbi_most_wanted_list/feed/ 22 Dutch police may get right to hack into computers http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/dutch_police_may_get_right_to_hack_into_computers/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/dutch_police_may_get_right_to_hack_into_computers/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287788 The Dutch government has proposed a bill that would give police far-reaching powers to fight cybercrime, while creating a dangerous precedent for police hacking codified into law. Via the BBC:

Under a new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files.

They could also break into servers located abroad, if they were being used to block services.

Critics say the proposed measures are unnecessary and could set a dangerous precedent for people living under oppressive governments.

Use of the powers would be subject to the approval of a judge, the government stresses.

The bill would also make it a crime for a suspect to refuse to decipher encrypted files during a police investigation.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/dutch_police_may_get_right_to_hack_into_computers/feed/ 2 Tsarnaev texted friends “LOL” after bombing http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/tsarnaev_texted_friends_lol_after_bombing/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/tsarnaev_texted_friends_lol_after_bombing/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287756 Details have emerged about the actions of three friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, all of whom were charged Wednesday with covering up evidence to obstruct the investigation. Two Kazakh students -- Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov -- and a U.S. citizen, Robel Phillipos, all 19, are alleged to have removed Tsarnaev's laptop and a backpack containing fireworks from his dorm room, placing the incriminating items into a dumpster. Via the Guardian:

According to the criminal complaint against Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, the pair recognised Tsarnaev from pictures released by the authorities four days after the attack. Kadyrbayev is said to have told FBI agents that then he sent text messages to Tsarnaev, who replied "Lol", "You better not text me", and "Come to my room and take whatever you want."

The complaint alleges the Kazakh pair then went with Phillipos to Tsarnaev's dorm room at Pine Dale Hall. They were let in by Tsarnaev's unnamed roommate, who told them Tsarnaev had left some hours earlier.

The FBI says the accused men described how, while watching a movie in the room, they noticed a backpack containing seven red tubes of fireworks, emptied of their explosive powder. Kadyrbayev, by now sure of Tsarnaev's involvement in the bombings, admitted to agents that he decided to remove the backpack "in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble".

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/tsarnaev_texted_friends_lol_after_bombing/feed/ 22 NYPD’s Ray Kelly: Blacks “understopped” by police http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/ny_police_commissioner_blacks_understopped_by_police/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/ny_police_commissioner_blacks_understopped_by_police/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287607 Echoing what Joan Walsh called Mayor Bloomberg's "ugly" defense of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice, police commissioner Ray Kelly asserted Wednesday night that African Americans are "understopped" by police. During an interview with ABC, the commissioner and the policing tactic's greatest defender, said that "African Americans are being understopped in relation to people being described as perpetrators of violent crime."

While Mayor Bloomberg has been mayor, the NYPD has carried out over 5 million stop-and-frisks. Analysis by the ACLU of official police data found that over 86 percent of the stops were of black or Latino individuals. The analysis of police data also revealed that 88 percent of the stops did not result in an arrest or summons (and of course an even smaller proportion ever lead to a prosecution, or conviction). The number of innocent people stopped alone serves as ample riposte to Kelly's suggestion that any demographic is "understopped."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/ny_police_commissioner_blacks_understopped_by_police/feed/ 10 Gitmo lawyer found dead in apparent suicide http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/gitmo_lawyer_found_dead_in_apparent_suicide/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/gitmo_lawyer_found_dead_in_apparent_suicide/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287540 Andy P. Hart, 38, a federal public defender representing a number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, was found dead last week, reportedly owing to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Although Hart left a suicide note, its contents are unknown. The Ohio lawyer also left a thumb drive with his current case files. Jason Leopold, Truth-Out's investigative reporter, noted:

Hart’s death comes amid escalating chaos that has engulfed Guantanamo over the past three months—from a mass hunger strike to military commissions and renewed pressure on the White House to shut down the prison facility. Hart was one of three-dozen Guantanamo attorneys who signed a letter in March urging Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to take immediate action and bring about an end to the hunger strike.

Because Hart was a federal employee working on sensitive legal issues the FBI was contacted about his death. It is unknown if the agency has been investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

...Hart was assigned by the government to defend Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani, who was detained by the CIA and allegedly subjected to torture methods until his transfer to Guantanamo in March 2008. The government maintained that al-Afghani was Osama bin Laden's translator and a top al-Qaida official.

Hart also represented Saudi Khalid Saad Mohammed, who was transferred back to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo in 2009. He was also the attorney for Adel Hakeemy, a Tunisian who has been detained at Guantanamo for 11 years.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/gitmo_lawyer_found_dead_in_apparent_suicide/feed/ 10 Feds threaten medical pot dispensaries with 40-year sentences http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286000 In the latest act in the ongoing drama pitting federal drug laws against state legislation permitting the sale of marijuana, a U.S. attorney is threatening the landlords housing medical marijuana dispensaries with 40 years in federal prison. After ballot measures legalizing the sale and possession of recreational pot use passed in Colorado and Washington state, we wondered whether Obama's second term would see the beginning of the end of the federal war on drugs.

But as the San Jose crackdown, among others, suggests, the Justice Department will not be backing down. In January, Southern California medical marijuana dispensary operator Aaron Sandusky was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for running a business deemed legal in his state since California legalized marijuana for qualified patients, caregivers and collectives in 1996 and 2003. Now, as the East Bay Express reported, "a new round of actions against lawful medical cannabis dispensaries in the South Bay" has begun following crackdowns in 2011:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/feed/ 57 First “ag-gag” charges brought … and then dropped http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/first_ag_gag_charges_brought_and_then_dropped/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/first_ag_gag_charges_brought_and_then_dropped/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:48:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285952 A Utah woman this week was the first to be arrested and face charges under the state's new so-called ag-gag laws, aimed to protect factory farms from whistle-blowers. As Will Potter reported on Green Is the New Red, Amy Meyer, standing on public land, filmed with her smartphone what she believed to be a sick, live cow being towed away from a slaughterhouse. Via Potter:

When the slaughterhouse manager came outside and told her to stop, she replied that she was on the public easement and had the right to film. When police arrived, she said told them the same thing. According to the police report, the manager said she was trespassing and crossed over the barbed-wire fence, but the officer noted “there was no damage to the fence in my observation.”

Meyer was allowed to leave. She later found out she was being prosecuted under the state’s new “ag-gag” law. This is the first prosecution in the country under one of these laws, which are designed to silence undercover investigators who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms. The legislation is a direct response to a series of shocking investigations by groups like the Humane Society, Mercy for Animals, and Compassion Over Killing that have led to plant closures, public outrage, and criminal charges against workers.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/first_ag_gag_charges_brought_and_then_dropped/feed/ 6 Government preparing to fine tech firms that don’t comply with wiretaps http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/government_preparing_to_fine_tech_firms_who_dont_comply_with_wiretaps/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/government_preparing_to_fine_tech_firms_who_dont_comply_with_wiretaps/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:12:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285738 The government has for many years sought the means, through tech giants like Google and Facebook, to wiretap communications with the use of built-in backdoors. According to the Washington Post, a Justice Department task force, prompted by FBI efforts, is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Face­book and Google to comply with law enforcement wiretaps. Via WaPo:

There is currently no way to wiretap some of these communications methods easily, and companies effectively have been able to avoid complying with court orders. While the companies argue that they have no means to facilitate the wiretap, the government, in turn, has no desire to enter into what could be a drawn-out contempt proceeding.

Under the draft proposal, a court could levy a series of escalating fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars, on firms that fail to comply with wiretap orders, according to persons who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. A company that does not comply with an order within a certain period would face an automatic judicial inquiry, which could lead to fines. After 90 days, fines that remain unpaid would double daily.

... The proposal, however, is likely to encounter resistance, said industry officials and privacy advocates.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/government_preparing_to_fine_tech_firms_who_dont_comply_with_wiretaps/feed/ 2 Navy sends extra medics to deal with Gitmo hunger strikers http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/navy_sends_extra_medics_to_deal_with_gitmo_hunger_strikers/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/navy_sends_extra_medics_to_deal_with_gitmo_hunger_strikers/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:11:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285527 Of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, philosopher Giorgio Agamben wrote in 2004 that they are "subject now only to raw power; they have no legal existence." Almost a decade later, Agamben's conception of the prison camp as inhabited by "bare life" -- inmates outside and at the limits of law, 11 years without charge or trial -- has been played out to its logical extension. According to a military spokesman at Guantanamo Monday, 100 of the 166 inmates are hunger striking and 21 are receiving feeding through nasal tubes -- they are truly subjects of raw, sovereign power over life and death.

According to reports, the Navy last weekend sent in some 40 extra medical personnel to deal with the strike and, as Al Jazeera noted, of the five hospitalized detainees it is not clear whether they are in life-threatening conditions. Via Al Jazeera:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/navy_sends_extra_medics_to_deal_with_gitmo_hunger_strikers/feed/ 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s requests for lawyer were ignored http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/dzhokhar_tsarnaevs_requests_for_lawyer_were_ignored/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/dzhokhar_tsarnaevs_requests_for_lawyer_were_ignored/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285483 Updated, 11:42 a.m. EST: In attempts to further flesh out a picture of the Tsarnaevs, investigators have reportedly discovered that the elder brother, Tamerlan, killed in a police shootout, may have had links to two now-dead militants in Russia. Via New York Magazine:

According to the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Tsarnaev may have been linked to William Plotnikov, a Canadian "boxer-turned-jihadist" (sounds familiar) who died at the hands of Russian forces in the republic of Dagestan last year, while Tsarnaev was visiting...Tsarnaev may have also known, or chatted online, with Makhmud Mansur Nidal, an 18-year-old militant who was reportedly "under surveillance for six months as a suspected recruiter for Islamist insurgents fighting Moscow's rule in the region." Nidal was also killed in Russia, in May 2012 during Tamerlan's six-month visit

 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/dzhokhar_tsarnaevs_requests_for_lawyer_were_ignored/feed/ 14 Over 100,000 open servers leave U.S. infrastructure vulnerable http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/over_100000_open_servers_leave_u_s_infrastructure_vulnerable/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/over_100000_open_servers_leave_u_s_infrastructure_vulnerable/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:36:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13281145 Since former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last year warned of the risks of a "cyber Pearl Habor" striking U.S. infrastructure, experts have been arguing back and forth about the scale of cyberthreats facing the U.S. This week, researchers from security firm Rapid7 said that critical infrastructure, including oil and gas systems, medical devices, naval ships faced very real risks of manipulation, owing to over 100,000 open servers used for remote access into their managing systems.

Via TechWeek:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/over_100000_open_servers_leave_u_s_infrastructure_vulnerable/feed/ 0 Government giving AT&T, others secret immunity from wiretap laws http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/government_giving_att_others_secret_immunity_from_wiretap_laws/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/government_giving_att_others_secret_immunity_from_wiretap_laws/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:10:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13281066 One of the major privacy concerns fueling opposition to CISPA is that the legislation would permit the private sector to acquire and search sensitive data relating to U.S. citizens between corporations and the government. However, according to government documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), such personal data sharing and surveillance is well underway already, while CISPA is yet to come up for a Senate vote.

As CNET reported Wednesday, "Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws." The Justice Department has been granting immunity to service providers through special "2511" letters that absolve carriers in the event that the surveillance is found to run afoul of federal law. As such, the DoJ is secretly enabling AT&T and others to evade wiretapping laws so that the government can conduct surveillance on parts of their networks.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/government_giving_att_others_secret_immunity_from_wiretap_laws/feed/ 2 Gitmo hunger strike growing by the day http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/gitmo_hunger_strike_growing_by_the_day/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/gitmo_hunger_strike_growing_by_the_day/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13281037 As noted here, on Monday military officials put the official number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay detention camp at 77 -- an increase of 25 inmates since last week. As of Wednesday, the number of strikers officially stands at 92 (over half of Gitmo's detainees) -- and these numbers are considered very conservative by lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing a number of starving inmates.

HuffPo's Ryan J Reilly, who toured the prison camp last week, reported Wednesday:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/gitmo_hunger_strike_growing_by_the_day/feed/ 1 Former Reuters employee pleads not guilty to Anonymous charges http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/former_reuters_employee_pleads_not_guilty_to_anonymous_charges/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/former_reuters_employee_pleads_not_guilty_to_anonymous_charges/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:34:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280788 Matthew Keys -- the social media editor fired from his position at Reuters Monday for reasons he believes could be political -- pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges that he conspired with members of Anonymous to attack websites of  the Tribune Co., his former employer.

According to the government's indictment, Keys provided Anonymous hackers with information including usernames and passwords to access Tribune Co. sites in late 2010, after he was fired from his job at a Tribune-owned station in Sacramento, Calif. Keys has rejected a plea bargain and, if found guilty, could face up to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000. His attorneys argue that although Keys had communicated with Anons via online chat rooms, it was someone posing as the journalist who provided the Tribune Co. access to information.

"There's an incongruity to all of this that we're hoping to get to the bottom of in the next couple months," Keys' attorney Jay Leiderman told HuffPo.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/former_reuters_employee_pleads_not_guilty_to_anonymous_charges/feed/ 0 Navy’s newest warship has cyber-vulnerabilities http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/navys_newest_warship_has_cyber_vulnerabilities/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/navys_newest_warship_has_cyber_vulnerabilities/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:48:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280761 Cybersecurity tests on the USS Freedom -- the Navy's newest warship -- found vulnerabilities in the vessel's computer systems. The warship has nonetheless been deployed to Singapore for eight months, reported Reuters, after the severity of the cyber-vulnerabilities was deemed minimal.  As Bloomberg noted, "The concern about cybersecurity adds to previous questions about the $37 billion program to build ships intended to perform missions in littoral waters, those close to shore. The estimated price to build each vessel has doubled to $440 million, and its ability to survive to fight after an attack has been questioned." Via Reuters:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/navys_newest_warship_has_cyber_vulnerabilities/feed/ 1 CISPA in limbo in busy Senate http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/cispa_in_limbo_in_busy_senate/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/cispa_in_limbo_in_busy_senate/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280675 The passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) through Congress has hit an obstacle -- but owing little to protest efforts from privacy advocates and civil libertarians opposed to the bill. Rather, an apathetic Senate with other priorities is holding CISPA in limbo.

As noted here Tuesday, a huge amount of special interest funding ($84 million, to be precise) may have helped more than double the number of Democrat representatives willing to vote for CISPA from 42 to 92. However, the bill -- which would allow the private sector to acquire and search sensitive data relating to U.S. citizens -- is going nowhere particularly fast in the Senate. As the AP reported:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/cispa_in_limbo_in_busy_senate/feed/ 2 Boston mosque refuses to bury Tamerlan http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/boston_mosque_refuses_to_bury_tamerlan/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/boston_mosque_refuses_to_bury_tamerlan/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:32:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280651 The aunt of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect killed in a police shoot out, was denied her request to see her nephew buried in a Boston mosque. The aunt of the suspects told NBC that "one of the suspects' uncles approached the imam of a Boston mosque attended by the brothers to request a burial and funeral service but was declined."

This mosque is not the only one in Boston reticent to lay the 26-year-old's body to rest. The denials and equivocations are a part of a broader pattern of Muslims and Chechens understandably distinguishing themselves from the Tsarnaev brothers in the massacre's wake. Via NBC:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/boston_mosque_refuses_to_bury_tamerlan/feed/ 5 Tsarnaev confession came before Miranda rights http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/tsarnaev_confession_came_before_miranda_rights/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/tsarnaev_confession_came_before_miranda_rights/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280626 According to a report from a "senior law enforcement official," The Boston Globe noted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed to planting the Boston marathon bombs before he was read his Miranda rights. However, this is not necessarily a problem for the prosecution.

Miranda establishes that statements made by a suspect in custody in response to interrogation are not admissible against the defendant in court unless the defendant has been properly Mirandized. But, according to the Globe report, authorities aren't sweating this detail -- they believe that witness testimony from the man carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers will serve as ample evidence for guilt, even if the 19-year-old suspect's hospital bed confession is not admissible in court. Via the Globe:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/tsarnaev_confession_came_before_miranda_rights/feed/ 7 Stay of execution for mentally ill Georgia man lifted http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/stay_of_execution_for_mentally_ill_georgia_man_lifted/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/stay_of_execution_for_mentally_ill_georgia_man_lifted/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:28:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280213 In February we noted how Warren Hill, a 53-year-old man with severe learning disabilities, was just 30 minutes away from receiving a lethal injection from the state of Georgia when he learned of the stay of execution from the federal appeals court. As of this week, however, a decision by the 11th circuit court has lifted the stay on Hill's execution. This, despite the fact that all medical specialists who have examined Hill —  a death row inmate of 16 years — have now concluded that he is unfit to face the death penalty.

As the Atlantic's Andrew Cohen wrote on the decision to once again see the inmate put to death at the hands of the state of Georgia:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/stay_of_execution_for_mentally_ill_georgia_man_lifted/feed/ 3 Senate drone hearing challenges “targeted kill” claims http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/senate_drone_hearing_challenges_targeted_kill_claims/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/senate_drone_hearing_challenges_targeted_kill_claims/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280089 Tuesday afternoon on Capitol Hill saw the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, chaired by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, host a hearing on drone warfare. Just last week a formidable group of human rights advocates and legal experts including the ACLU, Amnesty International, clinics from NYU School of Law and Columbia Law School among others, wrote to the president to challenge the "accountability and transparency" of the drone program, as well as the government's contention that drone strikes are carefully targeted.

Whether the Senate hearing will yield answers to crucial questions about Obama's drone wars is unclear. Witnesses scheduled to testify include retired Gen. James Cartwright of United States Marine Corp; activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi of Sana’a, Yemen; Peter Bergen, director of the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation; and a number of legal experts. Although the Senate committee tried to have a witness appear from the Justice Department, this request was denied.

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