06.07.13 07:12 AM
Here is a collection of some of the stories that
Personal Liberty staffers will be keeping an eye on throughout the day. Click the links for the full stories.
- Disgraced Former CIA Director David Petraeus is attending*this year’s Bilderberg Group meeting, evidently to offer input on how the expansion of surveillance capabilities can be harnessed and coordinated by governments partnering with the private sector.
- Nicaragua has agreed to a 100-year concession with a Chinese company to build an alternative*to the Panama Canal. The project is expected to cost $40 billion, and will track a channel through Lake Nicaragua to create a channel wider and deeper than the Panama Canal, which itself is currently being widened.
- The national unemployment rate went up in May from 7.5 to 7.6 percent, despite Department of Labor statistics that showed jobs increased slightly more than expected. Most of the new jobs are coming from temporary help agencies*and food service.
- The New York Times quietly revised language*in an editorial Thursday condemning President Barack Obama’s Administration for collecting Americans’ phone call data in order to tone down the harshness in the originally-published piece.
- Elderly Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are joining White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on a trip Friday to Guantanamo Bay prison.
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