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Submission + - Police Taser Man in Airport to Death (cnn.com)

Lucas123 writes: "A video was just released showing the last moments of a Polish immigrant who died after police shocked him with a taser and restrained him at Vancouver's airport last month. Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was going on a rampage out of frustration for waiting 10 hours for his mother in the airport, but witnesses said he was hurting no one. Police shot him with the taser after he refused to place his hands on a table. They apparently gave him two jolts. He later died."
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Submission + - Spy Master Admits Error (msn.com)

Cemu writes: Just one day after the slashdot article Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot, MSNBC reports the United States' Intel czar, Mike McConnell, had to adjust his statement that the information was in fact "not collected under authorities provided by the 'Protect America Act'." In fact the "exchange of information took place months before the new 'Protect America' law was passed."
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Submission + - Eavesdropping Didn't Help Uncover Terrorist Plot

crymeph0 writes: Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell asserted that the "Protect America Act", which frees the intelligence community from pesky things like judicial oversight while they eavesdrop on international conversations, was used to good effect in exposing the recently foiled terrorist plot to bomb U.S. military facilities in Germany. Not so, according to other, anonymous, intelligence community officials. McConnell was forced to admit his errors in a phone call to Sen. Joe Lieberman. Turns out the military got wise to the bad guys months before the law was passed, simply due to alert military guards noticing odd behavior by some passers-by, a.k.a. good old fashioned police work!

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