TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
The TSA has compiled a secret watch list to protect agents from “threatening” and “unruly” passengers, asserting that a passenger does not need to threaten or inflict physical injury on agency employees to be added to it. The New York Times reported Thursday that according to a five-page directive obtained by the outlet, people “may be targeted as potential Read More…
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions, and inflicted on an overtaxed, over-regulated, and underrepresented populace. Consider, for example, that federal and state governments now require – Read More…
The nomination of CIA operative Gina Haspel to be CIA director has, fortunately, given rise to powerful arguments against the U.S. government’s participation in torture, a practice that is common to tyrannical regimes. The critics of Haspel’s nomination are right: The United States should never be engaged in evil conduct, and the torture of a human being Read More…
A federal appeals court has blocked an attempt by the Trump Administration to move an unidentified detainee out of the U.S. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the Trump administration from transferring an unidentified United States citizen, accused of fighting for the Islamic State in Syria, to another country. Read More…
One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the latest report was released on just how much our own government is Read More…
The NSA collected “call detail records” from over 500 million Americans’ phone calls in 2017, over three times the number gathered in 2016 according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). This marks the second year of reporting following the passage of the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act – which requires that the Read More…