Daily Archives: January 24, 2011

Cheye Calvo raid settlement

Via Phillip Smith comes this news in the Washington Post Attorneys for Prince George’s County on Monday settled a lawsuit brought by Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo that accused deputies from a county sheriff’s SWAT unit of storming into his … Continue reading

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Questions for Obama

It’s already been discussed some here on the comment threads, but YouTube is once again collecting questions for the President. Who knows what they’ll end up letting through, and who knows whether he’ll give a serious answer, but if you’re … Continue reading

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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a high-resolution camera pointed at you.

Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate by Peter Finn in the Washington Post. But by 2013, the FAA expects to have formulated new rules that would allow police across the country to routinely … Continue reading

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