How Government Lost the Crypto Wars (At Least for Now)
Public-key encryption has brought a drastic shift in power from the state to individuals.
Public-key encryption has brought a drastic shift in power from the state to individuals.
Argues that secret wiretap authorizations were not abused.
Alex Van Der Zwaan's plea is latest criminal case to come out of Robert Mueller's investigation.
Trump says he's inclined to do so, but letter expresses concerns about "sensitive passages."
The Nunes memo says the FBI deceived the court. Grassley's memo suggests the FBI was tricked itself.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
Why should we have to rely on Dem and GOP spin? Americans have every right to know what happened.
More Republican skepticism of law enforcement agencies is a welcome development.
The Nunes memo deserved to be released, and so does the forthcoming Schiff one. But come on, D.C., get serious about abuse of FISA and other powers!
Democrat Adam Schiff might be right that GOP operatives want to derail the Russia probe. But the FBI and Justice Department lost credibility a long time ago.
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
Trump has reviewed a document alleging FBI misconduct. It might be released Friday.
The FBI needed probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power, a standard that is not hard to meet.
Partisan posturing drowns out important civil liberties concerns.
Trump tried to force end of Russian investigation back in June.
From Ron Johnson to Fox News and beyond, Team Red has replaced skeptical scrutiny of Obama-era executive branch activity with dimwitted counterpunching for Trump.
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
Hours later he walks it back.
Rep. Thomas Massie explains why he will vote "hell no" on renewal of FISA if Congress doesn't reform the 702 program.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
Short extension of FISA snooping powers shoved into temporary spending bill.
Can they get past the FBI vs. Trump narrative to talk about snooping on the rest of us?
Given the arbitrariness of federal criteria for gun ownership, the public safety benefits of background checks are dubious.
The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
The threat of domestic terrorism is frequently used to crack down on dissent.
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
Massage-parlor panic is crushing small businesses, civil liberties, and people's lives. Here are eight examples from October.
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
Hear from the real victims of this cruel FBI charade.
An increase in ambush deaths feeds a "war on cops" narrative, but the numbers remain small.
Due to lack of information from death certificates, only half are properly recorded.
The total was still 25 percent lower than the 2008 peak, although it was three times as high as the number of marijuana arrests in 1991.
Criminal justice experts say the rise is worrying, but still far below the crime rates of the '80s and '90s.
They "have their own language, leaders, and ways of talking to each other," says Reason's Paul Detrick.
Juggalos protested a gang label given to them by the F.B.I.
Congress moves to grant Trump administration vast new policing powers, because "sex trafficking."
FBI, Intel want broad snooping powers to stay intact. That may not be an option.
"Juggalos are being fucked with, so we have to do something about it."
A Senate report on Trump administration leaks overstates national security risks.
His colleagues having escaped consequences again and again, Special Agent W. Joseph Astarita might be asking why he's been singled out.
The law still considers the killing of Finicum justified.
Dissident and offbeat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.