Tag: NDAA

Barrett Brown, a Texas-based journalist who was imprisoned by federal authorities following a raid of both his apartment and his mother’s house amid his own investigations into government defense contractors, was released from prison Tuesday, five months prior to his scheduled release date. Brown, who pleaded guilty two years ago to three Internet threats, accessory after the fact, and interfering with the execution of a search warrant, had originally been charged with more than a dozen crimes and faced more than 100 years in prison. A majority of the charges were dropped after his lawyers challenged the wisdom of the allegations in court.

"It’s about love at the center of it that leads to a protest, that leads to a critique, leads to a resistance, leads to solidarity,.."

The legal battle to stop the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens has come to an end.

"Just the threat of getting charged is enough to chill that journalistic practice. It sends a real scary message to those people who do this for a living.”

Our annual roundup of the most-clicked stories of the year.

The law was previously ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.

"It's the largest leak trial in U.S. history. It has ramifications, wide ramifications."

Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’

The quote of the month for March, 2013. It's a doozy.