A former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she opened her mail and discovered three computer discs with an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland’s new electronic voting machines.

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat.

“We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides,…declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.”

“It’s just a total rollback of everything this country has stood for.” “Why did 9/11 happen on George Bush’s watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen”?

One of the highest-level executives at Verizon, alleged to be providing the National Security Agency with customer phone records under contract and without a warrant, has strong, decades-long ties to Central Intelligence.