Lack of participation from police departments has stymied the FBI's national use-of-force database for the past three years, but FBI Director Christopher Wray said a required threshold has finally been met.
Turning in your innocent friends and neighbors for having large amounts of cash is touted as a new source of income by the FBI.
The punishment is a bit rich considering the government's own mishandling of pandemic cash.
Censors wore out their welcome during the 20th century's indecency wars.
"It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson.
Elizabeth Warren's bizarre theories about corporate greed driving inflation have made their way into federal law enforcement, it seems.
This is a much more persuasive example of Deep State nefariousness than January 6.
Social media accounts are windows into your activities, and the cops are watching.
WhatsApp and iMessage are not as private as you might think.
Why trust an agency that conceals information from judges but prosecutes us for lying to it?
An FBI document reminds us: Your cell phone provider knows where you've been—and will tell the feds.
The federal government and police are finding new ways to use drones to invade privacy.
Ed Mullins is innocent until proven guilty—a distinction he often didn’t extend to others.
School boards want some perturbed parents branded domestic terrorists.
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.
Amir Meshal was never charged with a crime.
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
We were warned about the dangerous power of the USA PATRIOT Act. Edward Snowden proved that critics were justified.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
The warrant affidavit made generalized accusations against U.S. Private Vaults' customers but provided no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by individuals whose assets have been seized.
After getting called out for a "manifestly inadequate" attempt at establishing probable cause for the seizure, the feds now say they will return Joseph Ruiz' money.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.
The law enforcement agency has a disturbing record of drumming up the very conspiracies they're investigating.
Plus: The FBI had at least a dozen informants helping put together the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, price controls fail again, and more.
Plus: 88,000 New Jersey marijuana cases dismissed, Slate looks inside the conservative publishing industry, and more...
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
The FBI provided "no factual basis for the seizure," Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote.
"It makes me feel like the government is preying on the vulnerable and the weak to line their own pockets."
Plus: ACLU identity crisis, Texas bans vaccine rules, and more...
Plus: America's love-hate relationship with booze, Twitter CEO says "bitcoin changes absolutely everything," and more...
"When you've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't be subjected to an investigation," says Paul Snitko, whose box was seized in a March 22 FBI raid of a Beverly Hills business.
In a lawsuit, attorneys for the box's owner allege that federal agents conducted an illegal search that may have resulted in the loss of some valuable gold coins.
Victims of the FBI's constitutionally dubious raid say they've been told to come forward and identify themselves if they want their stuff back.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
Existing laws are more than adequate to handle the Capitol rioters.
One measure would require checks for nearly all firearm transfers, while the other would increase delays in completing sales.
Violent acts are already illegal, and new tools will inevitably be used against those who annoy the powerful.
The agency also missed an FBI bulletin citing "specific calls for violence."
Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.
Plus: The aftermath of the New York Times' anti-Pornhub crusade, and more...
Plus: Senators call impeachment trial unconstitutional, Biden cancels private prison contracts, Apple sued over Telegram, and more...
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