Katie Rucke

Katie Rucke is a MintPress staff writer and investigative report specializing in the war on drugs, criminal justice, marijuana legislation, education and watchdog investigations as well as whistle-blowers. Her investigations related to the coverage of the 2010 Toyota recall scandal, and coverage of the trials of Anonymous hacker and proclaimed activist Jeremy Hammond as well as Bradley Manning have received international acclaim. Rucke has been recommended by the Wikileaks organization as a trusted journalist in 2013. Rucke has also written pieces for Yahoo! and various community magazines. Follow Katie on Twitter: @katierucke

Americans Continue Civil Rights Struggle As Government Targets Minority Leaders For Surveillance

“I think all Americans should be worried about NSA surveillance and the targeting of American Muslims, because if it is American Muslims today, it is going to be them next.”

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Hooshang Amirahmadi

With the help of documents obtained by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain reported that the NSA and the FBI were electronically spying on at least five prominent Americans solely because of their connections to the Middle East and Islam -- not because they were involved with or

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CISPA-like Bill Advances In Senate, Despite Outcry From Activists

Opponents of the bill are surprised that Congress wouldn’t be more diligent in ensuring Americans’ privacy was protected, given all the NSA revelations in the past year.

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Por Katie Rucke
CISPA SOPA

The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 12-3 on Tuesday to approve a cybersecurity bill authored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss. Known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, it would essentially remove the legal restrictions that currently bar companies from sharing information

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Media Groups Ask Obama To Save Democracy

In response to Obama’s concerns about Americans’ cynicism poisoning democracy, media organizations ask him “to stop the spin and let the sunshine in.”

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Barack Obama

The Society of Professional Journalists, an advocacy group that works to improve journalism and protect journalists, and 37 other media organizations sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, asking him to help save democracy by running the government in a more transparent manner. Release of the letter comes after Obama told a crowd in

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California, Chicago Sue Addictive Painkiller Manufacturers

Saying narcotics manufacturers need to be held accountable for the addiction epidemic their drugs are at the heart of, California and the city of Chicago file a lawsuit.

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The city of Chicago and Orange and Santa Clara counties in California have filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s major narcotics manufacturers as part of their efforts to curb addiction to prescription pain medications such as OxyContin. News of the lawsuit comes about a year after reports revealed that around6.1 million people abused

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Journo Cries Foul After Being Denied Access To Military Base Turned Refugee Camp

Saying the U.S. treats illegal immigrants better than its own veterans, an Infowars journalist reports from a military base despite being explicitly refused access.

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Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott

“The Department of Defense has threatened me with imprisonment in response to our report on the illegal alien shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas,” wrote Infowars journalist Kit Daniels on Friday. “In a certified letter sent to Infowars [on June 27], the Defense Department claims that I engaged in ‘unauthorized photography

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Anti-Gay ArchBishop Investigated For Sexual Misconduct With Men

A church leader in the Twin Cities finds himself at the center of a sexual misconduct investigation he ordered.

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John C. Nienstedt

After it was recently alleged that Archbishop John Nienstedt has engaged in multiple instances of inappropriate sexual conduct with seminarians, priests and other men involved in the church, the head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has found himself at the center of a sexual misconduct investigation that he ordered to ferret out

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Oil Pipeline Expansion Presents A Whale Of A Problem

Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand a pipeline pose major environmental threats — especially to whale populations still reeling from past oil spills and noise pollution.

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Energy giant Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand its existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline in order to triple the amount of oil shipped out of Canada from 300,000 barrels a day to around 890,000 barrels per day, has been met with strong resistance from environmental protection groups and concerned members of the public who argue that the increase in oil

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