Eli Lake: Exploring the Darkest Corners of the Deep State
The journalist and podcast host on foreign policy, democracy, and habitual law breaking by the NSA, CIA, and FBI
The journalist and podcast host on foreign policy, democracy, and habitual law breaking by the NSA, CIA, and FBI
The independent journalist talks about true press freedom, the Twitter Files, Russiagate, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The maverick journalist talks Twitter Files, the end of the anti-government left, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The constitutional lawyer and criminal justice reformer talks about our two-tier punishment system and deep-seated corruption at the Justice Department.
The journalistic crusade against "bothsidesism" is an unsubtle attempt at enforcing political orthodoxy.
The Durham report is a "black eye" for the FBI, leading Democrats, and the media, says Lake.
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern with Eli Lake to discuss what the Durham report tells us about the FBI, the media and U.S. politics.
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From Russiagate to COVID discourse, elites in government and the media are trying to control and centralize free speech and open inquiry.
A decade ago, online startups seemed poised to vanquish legacy media. That didn't happen.
The botched pursuit of the Russiagate story illustrates how the media shed credibility.
Lawyers who indulged the former President are discovering such conduct has costs.
Part of a law that authorizes warrantless snooping is about to expire, opening up a opportunity to better protect our privacy rights.
Sloppy legal filings against Democratic political operatives may end up costing some of Trump's lawyers.
Why trust an agency that conceals information from judges but prosecutes us for lying to it?
The investigation of Trump aide Carter Page has exposed major problems with federal secret surveillance warrants.
More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed.
Before Mike Lindell's lunatic claims and Donald Trump's sour grapes over 2020, there was Hillary Clinton and the media's false insistence on Kremlin interference.
Full pardons were given to the four contractors convicted of murdering Iraqis in a firefight in Baghdad.
His Trump toadying was absolutely awful, but still not nearly as bad as his unremittingly harsh approach to justice and policing.
The president has the worst record for clemency in modern history.
At least something good could come out of this mess of an investigation.
Majority 2–1 opinion says prosecutors, not judges, have the discretion to drop the case against the former Trump aide.
They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
People insisted the wiretapping of Carter Page was perfectly normal. That turned out to be wrong.
An effort by Sen. Rand Paul to forbid warrantless investigation of citizens was soundly defeated.
Plus: Washington, D.C., extends its lockdown and U.S. COVID-19 cases might finally be declining.
An amendment to a FISA renewal bill would let the FBI snoop on your online browser history.
There are a lot of reasons to critique the attorney general. Find one that doesn’t require misleading your audience.
Feds now say the national security advisor's lie wasn’t “material” and they cannot prove it.
The USA Freedom Act expired in March. Some senators are pushing for better privacy protections before the renewal vote.
If you’re invoking an obscure law designed for the purpose of punishing political adversaries, don’t be surprised when it backfires.
Agents regularly attempt to catch suspects in lies to threaten them with prosecution, even when they can’t prove underlying crimes.
Carter Page was not an anomaly.
Some Republican senators are working hard to get Trump behind stronger fixes.
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
Were the Justice Department's redactions influenced by Barr's desire to exonerate the president?
The problems with federal sentencing guidelines are real and troubling, even in cases that do not involve the president’s pals.
She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
A prison sentence of seven to nine years is excessive for nonviolent process crimes aimed at concealing legal behavior.
The former national security advisor accuses prosecutors of misconduct—and says his former defense lawyers had conflicts of interest.
After seriously messing up its warrant applications with the FISA Court, can the FBI be trusted?
The problems revealed by the DOJ inspector general go far beyond "errors" and "sloppiness."
Judge demands to know what the agency will do prevent future “omissions” in the applications.
In an interview with Fox News, the former FBI director admitted mistakes with the FISA process but defended his team.
Privacy advocates have long warned about potential abuses. Will the mishandling of the Carter Page investigation change some minds?
Republicans were wrong to side with the state on privacy issues, and the media was wrong to lionize anti-Trump G-men.
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