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Clock Was ‘Half a Bomb’; When Is Assassination not Assassination; Govt Wants Your Cell Phone Location
Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Was “Half a Bomb,” Says Anti-Muslim Group With Ties to Trump, Cruz. Gaffney, who was an acting assistant secretary of defense for several months in the Reagan administration, has spread a variety of Islamophobic conspiracy theories in recent years, claiming that President Obama is a secret Muslim, that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan supports Islamic law, and that the redesign of the Missile Defense Agency’s logo revealed a “worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam.”
When Is Assassination Not Assassination? When the Government Says So. Today, the preferred line for assassination is “targeted killing,” as in Greg Miller’s recent Washington Post exposé revealing that CIA and special operations forces have launched “a secret campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program.”
Government Argues: If Your Mobile Phone Provider Knows Where You Are, Why Shouldn’t We? The third-party doctrine is a legal theory that asserts that users voluntarily give up information like location data by subscribing to public services like communications providers, and thus have “no reasonable expectation of privacy” when it comes to that information.
