So the Yemeni govt was definitely lying then but definitely telling the truth now?

I mean, given that Yemen's government has a long history of falsely claiming the deaths of terrorists, given that the US government had a huge incentive to give some scary name in connection with a strike that killed a 16 year old American, and given that Yemen's government at the moment has no apparent incentive to pretend this guy is alive if he wasn't, I'm a little skeptical at the moment of the US version of events on Al-Awlaki's son's death. Are you not?

Interested in what the Klinkmeister and others think about this

Similar things happens to me every time I come back home. It is about the most tilting and depressing thing after a very long voyage. They are so mean and condescending, always trying to intimidate you or trick you with their questions and comments. Thank goodness that they only spend 1-2 hours with me. They have never tried to seize my laptop before, and that is really scary.

When I travel internationally I always wipe my laptop before (and after!) crossing any borders and transfer files through a secure VPN once I arrive. This isn't because of any criminal activity, it's mostly because we can't risk losing control of sensitive business data.

OTOH, I haven't been detained (AT LEAST NOT THAT I REMEMBER THEY PROBABLY GOT ME WITH THE FLASHY THING)

See, if you aren't doing anything wrong and don't say anything bad about the government in movies and are white and don't look like viffer you have nothing to worry about.

And don't study the wrong majors.

Ok, I think a brief summary of the Al-Alwaki's son hanging out with terrorists discussion is in order

Here suzzer quotes a Time article citing an unnamed us official who triumphantly went to the press to proclaim that AQ press secretary Ibrahim Al-Banna was killed in the strike.

I do a quick google search:


Suzzer refuses to believe:



And now, a new report gives us some closure on the Al-Bann'a dead or alive issue:



By not widely reported, they mean that this is the first disclosure from a serious news organization that Al-Bann'a is alive, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE YEMENI GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED HE WAS ALIVE MONTHS AGO. I've been emailing journalists to try to get some coverage of this, but apparently no one cares enough about the death of a 16 year old to do a ****ing google search to check if the government version of events is remotely believable. Keep in mind, that when Al-Bann'a was "killed" it was deemed a serious enough story to warrant widespread media coverage. But now that he's alive and the only people apparent victims of the strike were some teenagers, we get absolute silence.

The whole article is worth the read, and, suzzer, hopefully we've learned our lesson about trusting super serious journalists who quote unnamed US sources on the casualties in drone strikes.

Obama plans to invoke Florida's "stand your ground" law in defense to the child's killing.

You gotta murder the son so he doesn't come back for revenge later. This is Tyranny 101

See, e.g., Michael Corleone ldo

Doesn't it take forever to truly wipe a hard drive?

Going for the double post because I'm confirmed mad atm.

What the **** does it say about our society when the government kills a bunch of kids, gets caught blatantly lying about it, and not a single ****ing "journalist" in the entire ****ing country thinks it's worth their time to do a quick investigation and write an article? I mean seriously, Travon Martin has become the scandal of the century, but with Al-Awlaki people don't give a ****, either because of his ethnicity, or because murder isn't seen as a crime when the state does it.

Collateral damage bro.

no. Write some zeros and then gl.

http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/th...ins-unaccepted
http://www.anti-forensics.com/disk-w...th-screenshots

With us or against us

DOD standard used to (and this was 15+ years ago) specify 10 passes of zeros, ones, or random combination, due to some theoretical possibility that an attacker could somehow read residual magnetic footprints of files, though I don't know if a practical implementation was ever demonstrated.

SSDs don't, AFAIK, suffer from this vulnerability. But even if I had platters I wouldn't worry beyond a single pass.

Data wiping your laptop when traveling internationally should be probably cause enough to get you on some kind of terrorist watch list.

Media certainly can't tell a story that says our government lies and murdered children... Are you crazy? Do you want them to lose their jobs?

BUmp.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/23/wh_l...ilm/singleton/

Obama has passed Bush in terms of optics for political gain by a country mile.

I found some comfort in this: in the documents, the CIA clearly shows they knew they were breaking the rules, but they were just like lol rules, we'll just keep this **** on the down low, that will let us leak to these film people, if we don't tell anyone.

So, at least we've confirmed that when some non-impressive people without Oscars who aren't producing propaganda show up and want to know about banal, non-exiting and undramatic things like "so exactly what due process, if any, will be afforded to these guys at Gitmo, and hey, are you sending some away to black sites for torture still?" and the federal government is like "YOU CANT KNOW, NATIONAL SECURITY," they kinda sorta seem to internally not believe it themselves.

GG on CFA (or more specifically, on gasbag politicians looking to restrict CFA's buisness)

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/30/free...and_donations/

Good Guy Glenn Greenwald:


Hates CFA's anti-gay chicken.

Will defend to the death CFA's right to sell their anti-gay chicken.