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        April 17, 2014 -
        
  
        Mississippi's surveillance of civil rights activists in the 1960s turned it into a police state. Today, widespread government spying has turned the entire United States into a police state.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        March 24, 2014 -
        
  
        Given the history in Mississippi and the South of state-backed spying on innocent citizens, Southerners should be particularly sensitive to the National Security Agency's snooping on private citizens that whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed last year.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 18, 2013 -
        
  
        In the wake of the NSA surveillance revelations, Gulf Coast advocate Cherri Foytlin considers her own experience of monitoring by federal authorities while pressing for justice from BP, part of a long history of U.S. spying on people's movements.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 10, 2013 -
        
  
        Booz Allen Hamilton employed Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on the National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program. The Virginia-based company has long had close ties to government intelligence.