Whether or not a reasonable police officer violates clearly established law when he declines to check the features and address of his target house before raiding it is thus still up for debate.
One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.
The newly confirmed head of the country's leading law enforcement agency has a history of advocating politically motivated investigations even while condemning them.
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
A defanged FBI could minimize our reliance on politicians’ (rarely) good intentions.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
Curtrina Martin's petition attracted support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
Are New Jerseyans mistaking normal airplanes for mysterious drones?
The government has given itself special powers to deal with crimes that it could already prosecute.
The president-elect's pick for FBI director says he rejects some of the right-wing sect's bizarre beliefs but agrees with "a lot of what the movement says."
Trump's pick to run the FBI has a long list of enemies he plans to "come after," with the legal details to be determined later.
"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
Trump's picks for FBI director and Middle East adviser buck his trend of appointing superhawks.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the libertarian position on doctor-assisted suicide.
Plus: Media figures and politicians react to the news, Donald Trump appoints Kash Patel to head the FBI, and more...
Michiganders had to choose between a hawkish Democrat with an intelligence background and a hawkish Republican with an intelligence background for Senate.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
While it is not true that "homicides are skyrocketing," recent trends in other kinds of violent crime are murkier.
One year ago, political figures spread a false terrorism panic that made everyone less free—and incited violence against a child.
Violent crime fell by 3 percent last year, the agency estimates. That includes a 12 percent drop in homicides.
Newly released FBI files show a lot of strange threats against the former secretary of state’s safety—and say a lot about 1970s America.
According to Trump's preferred source, violent victimizations fell slightly in 2023, although the difference was not statistically significant.
"A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively," says economist and author John Lott.
Although his campaign rejects the FBI's numbers as "garbage," they are broadly consistent with evidence from other sources.
Trump's campaign dismisses recent crime data while glossing over the fact that he was president during the huge homicide spike in 2020.
Thus far, the courts have barred Curtrina Martin from asking a jury for damages. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
The plot to kidnap the Michigan governor was in large part concocted and encouraged by paid FBI informants and their Bureau handlers.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
While the data is far from perfect, if the overall trend holds, violent crime could be back to pre-COVID levels by the end of the year.
The White House announced a “near final” defense pact with Saudi Arabia yesterday, just as new evidence about Saudi links to 9/11 is emerging.
Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
Hoover’s reign at the FBI compromised American civil liberties and turned the FBI into America's secret police.
Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
A FOIA request reveals what the FBI and Homeland Security had to say about anarchist activities on May Day 2015.
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
The measure would have required federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence.
Plus: A fight over Section 702 spying reforms, Iran threatens Israel and the U.S., Trump's proposed tariff is even worse than we thought, and more...
A Section 702 reauthorization moving through Congress could actually weaken privacy protections.
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