The Freedom of Information Act was designed to empower citizens to hold their government accountable. But evidence suggests the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has quietly adopted a practice that turns that principle on its head: labeling some of the people who...
On November 1, 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of the "China Initiative" – a whole-of-government effort ostensibly designed to thwart espionage and technology theft by the People's Republic of China (PRC). Chinese American groups and...
For decades, presidents and their appointees have misused the classification system to conceal waste, fraud, abuse, and even criminal conduct, failing to properly manage classified federal records generally. That is why a new bipartisan effort to deal with this major...
Before leaving town for the 2023 end-of-year holidays, Congress managed to avoid a 12:01am January 1, 2024 expiration of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It began life in a totally unregulated form as a component of President George W....
The multi-year battle by local Atlanta and national activists to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center – labeled "Cop City" by opponents – has entered a new phase. On August 14, ABC News reported that "#StopCopCity protesters had collected...
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the first story featuring National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden's initial revelation: the role of Verizon in aiding NSA's telephone metadata mass surveillance program. As the Guardian...
This is reprinted from the Orange County Register with permission. Late last Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a heavily redacted April 2022 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinion and order dealing with the...
It's been over five years since the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) "Black Identity Extremist" (BIE) report was leaked to Foreign Policy magazine in early October 2017. The August 3, 2017, report – which alleged that "perceptions of police brutality against...
According to a recent document obtained by the Cato Institute, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation suggests that the State Department, and possibly the FBI, maintain an interest in the United Kingdom-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. As part of a multi-year...
In the wake of George Floyd's murder and the nationwide protests it sparked over two years ago, among the other alarming developments that eventually came to light was the level of government surveillance of Americans protesting Floyd's death at the hands of the...
