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Here’s one of the pictures he took:

The cyclist saw the wolf start chasing him, outran it, stopped, turned around and drove back toward the wolf. Sheesh.

Banff Park, Canada.

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How close did it get to you?
It was coming at me. It probably got to within a couple meters, easy, maybe a meter. If I’d have slowed down I would have definitely hit it, so I just opened it up, got a bit of power and got around it. I’ve had dogs run out at me on bikes before and you sort of get a feel for the distance the speed you’re going, but it was pretty tight.

But after you’d gotten some distance between you, that’s when you pulled around for a closer look?
I stopped the bike, pulled my gloves off, took my camera out, did a u-turn and came back, and that’s when I managed to get the pictures. When [the wolf] heard me coming, it jumped back over a [roadside] barrier and it started running. I sped up a little bit, it got in nice and close and I was driving with my right hand and clicking pictures with my left. When I first came back around, it came in really close; probably a bit too close. It would have been a real bad time to run out of gas. Even over the motor, I could hear it. I could hear its feet on the road.”

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O’Keefe, as you may know, runs Project Veritas. He has been engaging in citizen journalism and has uncovered several ugly parts of government. As a result he and his crew have been harassed by government agencies. He wants to know why.

The fact that the Associate Attorney General’s parents gave him such an unfortunate name adds a veneer of ridiculosity to the whole thing.

Head starts out OK but winds up going all bureaucrat.

It’s actually a pretty effective ad for O’Keefe’s new book.

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“Hairy” leggings help Chinese girls fend off perverts

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You know that NSA surveillance program that none of us ever heard of at the start of the month? Sure, you know, the one that Snowden revealed to the world and then ran off to communist China in order to avoid being disappeared. Yeah, that top secret program. Obama says it is a transparent program.

President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret.

“It is transparent,” Obama told PBS’ Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. “That’s why we set up the FISA court,” he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes two recently disclosed programs: one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.

He added that he’s named representatives to a privacy and civil liberties oversight board to help in the debate over just how far government data gathering should be allowed to go — a discussion that is complicated by the secrecy surrounding the FISA court, with hearings held at undisclosed locations and with only government lawyers present. The orders that result are all highly classified.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
SECRECY IS TRANSPARENT

I love my job and God knows how much I appreciate it. My job gives me satisfaction in many ways but knowing that I’m helping people do business and provide for their families is the major draw for me. I know that my customers depend on me being there for them every day. Yes, I realize that I’m being paid to do that but I’ve always been guided by knowing that if I make my customer my first concern, pay becomes less of a concern. When you think about the job you don’t typically have to worry about the pay, as long as you aren’t the Boss.

I’m in a tiny little cubicle with a computer screen in my face and sporting a telephone headset for my crown, all day long. I’m in at least an hour before I have to be and as late as I can be. I order lunch from the lunch counter in our break room and I eat it at my desk as I TCB all day every day. I could not consider having a radio on my desk like I did at my old job, listening to Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck all day. Due to strict company internet policy, there is no surfing the stories at Drudge. There is no way I could ever log in to the Revo to publish something. To do that would be to kiss my job goodbye.

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I think the detainees at Gitmo should be tried in front of military tribunals or released from detention. I have always been torn on the issue, because of my predilection toward individual liberty and my understanding and acceptance of the need for a means of holding individuals who are a threat. While detaining someone who is an active threat should always be legal, I think that their liberty shouldn’t be allowed to be taken “indefinitely”.

When a man commits a crime he should be punished for that crime. If the evidence doesn’t exist to try the individual, he should be released. Likewise, if the evidence is tainted.

The founding principles of this nation establish, nay, reinforce & codify the idea that all men are created equal. As such, we should hold anyone in our custody to the same standard. I am not comfortable with the idea of our government, a government-run-amok – or any other – having the ability to detain anyone it pleases, without a writ of habeus corpus and a structured system of dealing justice within the law. We should not be comfortable trading the liberty of an individual, for the security of individuals, without a proper system of checks-and-balances.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees — men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.

The names had been a closely guarded secret since a multi-agency task force sifted through the files of the Guantánamo detainees in 2009 trying to achieve President Barack Obama’s executive order to close the detention center. In January 2010, the task force revealed that it classified 48 Guantánamo captives as too dangerous to transfer but ineligible for trial because of a lack of evidence, or because the evidence was too tainted.

They became so-called “indefinite detainees,” a form of war prisoner held under Congress’ 2001 “Authorization for Use of Military Force.”

The Defense Department released the list to The Miami Herald, which, with the assistance of Yale Law School students, had sued for it in federal court in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon also sent the list to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Monday, a Defense Department official said.

According to the list, the men designated for indefinite detention are 26 Yemenis, 12 Afghans, 3 Saudis, 2 Kuwaitis, 2 Libyans, a Kenyan, a Moroccan and a Somali.

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