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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; Freedom of Information</title>
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		<title>Friday Wrap up: Is Decrypting Covered by the 5th? Baca Agrees With Beck about DLs&#8230;.and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2012/admin/friday-wrap-up-is-decrypting-covered-by-the-5th-baca-agrees-with-beck-about-dls-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DIGITAL SELF INCRIMINATION 
So, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve been arrested, and you&#8217;ve been told by the cops (or the assistant district attorney, or whomever) that you have to decrypt the hard drive of your laptop, which law enforcement has been unable to hack.  Let&#8217;s also say that you know that the material on said hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STOP SOPA (and PIPA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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While WitnessLA didn&#8217;t go dark on Wednesday for the SOPA blackout (too much jails stuff going
 on to even consider it), the  protest seems to be helping.  
If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the fuss about SOPA&#8212;the Stop Online Piracy Act&#8212;and its little sister PIPA &#8230;. the Protect IP Act, let writer and NYU professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Supreme Court, the Power of Money and other Must Reads</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/the-u-s-supreme-court-the-power-of-money-and-other-must-reads/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/the-u-s-supreme-court-the-power-of-money-and-other-must-reads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In next week&#8217;s issue of the New Yorker (April 11), the magazine&#8217;s legal writer, Jeffery Toobin, has a MUST READ story about SCOTUS&#8217; view of campaign reform.
It is an interesting and important read, but not exactly a cheery one:
Below I have posted a few salient clips   but the whole thing is worth your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Prosecutions, Lawyers Using Facebook &amp; More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/crazy-prosecutions-lawyers-using-facebook-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/crazy-prosecutions-lawyers-using-facebook-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SUPREMES CONSIDER WHETHER BLOGGERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WORDS (AND CAN BE SUED FOR DEFAMATION)
Uh, yeah.  Of course they can be and should be.  And it&#8217;s time the issue was addressed. 
 UPI has the story.
A high-profile defamation suit by a former U.S. Department of Agriculture official against a prominent conservative blogger may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiotic PC-ness versus Mark Twain, History, Literature and Intelligent Discourse</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/idiotic-pc-ness-versus-mark-twain-history-literature-and-intelligent-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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If I had to choose one novel above all others to represent the glories of American literature it would be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  It&#8217;s not perfect.  Many critics, myself included, believe that Twain stumbles slightly when he reintroduces Tom Sawyer in the last quarter of the book.  But, like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airforce Blocks Access TO Press, Sheriff Blocks Access BY Press</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/airforce-blocks-access-to-press-sheriff-blocks-access-by-press/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/airforce-blocks-access-to-press-sheriff-blocks-access-by-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
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In his column in Wednesday&#8217;s LA Times, Steve Lopez reports that the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s department&#8212;presumably with the okay of Sheriff Lee Baca&#8212;has instructed its deputies not to talk to reporters from LA County&#8217;s main news outlet, namely the Los Angeles Times.
Or something like that. 

Here&#8217;s the relevant section on Lopez&#8217;s column:
The latest [LASD/Lee Baca] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks, Assange, Public Bloodlust &amp; a Few Sane Voices</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/wikileaks-assange-public-bloodlust-the-lynch-mob-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/wikileaks-assange-public-bloodlust-the-lynch-mob-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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The hysterical reactions by seemingly sane people on the topic of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange  grow ever more deeply disheartening.

But there are, fortunately, a few people talking sense, among them Ron Paul and Tom Hayden, two men who would find themselves at opposite ends of many questions.  But on this crucial issue they [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Columbia University Finally Gets a Grip Re:  WikiLeaks</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/columbia-university-finally-gets-a-grip-re-wikileaks/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/columbia-university-finally-gets-a-grip-re-wikileaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A few days after administrators from Columbia University&#8217;s School of International and Public Affairs made idiots of themselves by telling students that tweeting, linking, posting or otherwise traceably conversing about WikiLeaks would harm their future career prospects, Columbia has suddenly come to its senses and realized that their earlier career advice made them look&#8230;.really, really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks Quote Contest, Lying Witnesses, and Strugging for Health Care</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/wikileaks-quote-contest-lying-witnesses-and-strugging-for-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/wikileaks-quote-contest-lying-witnesses-and-strugging-for-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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JAMES FALLOWS AT THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY HAS A CONTEST FOR THE BEST WIKILEAKS QUOTE
No, he&#8217;s not downplaying the seriousness of the leaks Fallows assures us, it&#8217;s merely that there are some damn good quotes hiding in that quarter of a million document flood.

INTERPOL HAS ISSUED AN ALERT FOR THE ARREST OF WIKILEAKS&#8217; FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Wants to Wiretap the Internet (It&#8217;s Worse Than You Think)</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/fbi-wants-to-wiretap-the-internet-its-worse-than-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2010/admin/fbi-wants-to-wiretap-the-internet-its-worse-than-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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As you may or may not have heard, the FBI is now very worried that bad guys are texting and Skype-ing  and Facebook-messaging each other (Duh!), and that law enforcement can&#8217;t wiretap these forms of communication the way they can cell phones, land lines, email and the like.  
Okay, one can understand the [...]]]></description>
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