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Reports from the FSA - Fascist States of America
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PHOENIX -- Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert.
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Afterward, a sergeant reportedly unlocked the handcuffs, helped clean the blood off his face and apologized.
It turns out they busted the wrong guy.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Janice Wells called the Richland Police Department when she feared a prowler was outside her clapboard house in the rural west Georgia town.
The third-grade teacher had phoned for help. But within minutes of an officer coming to her backdoor, she was screaming in pain and begging not to be shocked again with a Taser. With each scream and cry, the officer threatened her with more shocks.
"All of it's just unreal to me. I was scared to death," Wells said in an interview with the AJC. "He kept tasing me and tasing me. My fingernails are still burned. My leg, back and my butt had a long scar on it for days."
The National Security Agency has completed plans for a massive expansion at Fort George G. Meade as the secretive code-cracking arm of the Pentagon gears up to battle cyber terrorists across the globe.
The agency recently completed a study on the impacts of its proposed $5.2 billion expansion, growth that includes adding up to 11,000 jobs and 5.8 million square feet of new office space to its Fort Meade headquarters. The environmental impact statement outlines several possible growth options, either of which stands to have a dramatic impact on the Fort Meade area and Greater Baltimore.
The NSA is planning to expand onto a 227-acre parcel at Fort Meade known as Site M, displacing a golf course now on the land. That is in addition to the 630 acres it already occupies at the 5,067-acre military base.
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Washington Post, 19 July 2010
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.