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Government secrecy

Government Spending

The Feds Spent $22 Million Researching Invisibility Cloaks, UFOs, and a Tunnel Through the Moon

However wonderful it is to imagine a world in which these things are possible, the government shouldn’t be shelling out millions to entertain speculation.

Fiona Harrigan | 4.20.2022 4:35 PM

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Border patrol

Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages?

A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function.

Scott Shackford | 4.4.2022 2:15 PM

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Surveillance

New Report Highlights an Old Problem—the CIA Is Still Snooping on Americans

In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.

Scott Shackford | 2.11.2022 11:55 AM

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Drones

Released Video Footage Shows Disastrous U.S. Drone Strike That Killed Kabul Family

Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.

Scott Shackford | 1.19.2022 5:10 PM

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Drones

Will America's Military Reckon with the Reckless Murders Perpetuated by Its Drone Wars?

A new, heavily investigated report shows a Pentagon uninterested in correcting its deadly errors.

Scott Shackford | 12.20.2021 2:30 PM

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FBI

Don't Worship an FBI That Took the Steele Dossier Seriously

Why trust an agency that conceals information from judges but prosecutes us for lying to it?

Scott Shackford | 11.17.2021 3:20 PM

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Executive Power

A Federal Judge Denied Trump's Claims of Permanent Executive Privilege

In denying the former president's claims of executive privilege, a federal judge sets a blueprint which should apply to sitting presidents as well.

Joe Lancaster | 11.17.2021 9:45 AM

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Surveillance

Supreme Court Rebuffs Attempt To Open Up Access to Classified FISA Court Reports

Do Americans have a right to know the extent that the government surveils them?

Scott Shackford | 11.1.2021 1:35 PM

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FISA

The FBI's Secret FISA Court Surveillance Applications Are Chock Full of Screw-Ups

More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed.

Scott Shackford | 10.1.2021 1:15 PM

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9/11

Federal Grants Brought the Equipment of the War on Terror Home to American Police Departments

Twenty years after 9/11, weaponry and surveillance gear originally developed for the military have become commonplace in police departments around the country.

C.J. Ciaramella | 9.9.2021 3:49 PM

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Drones

Daniel Hale Revealed America's Drone Assassinations to the Public. He's Been Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison.

Federal espionage laws are used once again to punish a whistleblower.

Scott Shackford | 7.28.2021 1:00 PM

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Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Reportedly Secured Special Treatment for Family Members and VIPs During Early Days of Pandemic

He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).

Liz Wolfe | 3.25.2021 11:05 AM

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Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo's Other Victims

How New York's governor botched early-pandemic guidance to residential care facilities for intellectually disabled adults

Liz Wolfe | 3.12.2021 12:40 PM

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Russia Probe

The Michael Flynn Unmasking Fight Is Another Chance for More Transparency About Secret Government Surveillance

People insisted the wiretapping of Carter Page was perfectly normal. That turned out to be wrong.

Scott Shackford | 5.15.2020 3:15 PM

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Edward Snowden

The Feds Get Permission To Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits

A judge rules whistleblower’s failure to subject Permanent Record to pre-publication review violates non-disclosure agreement.

Scott Shackford | 12.18.2019 12:50 PM

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Journalism

Australian Police Raided a Newsroom and a Journalist's Home for Reporting on Government Secrets

The police conducted two searches in two days to track down who is leaking things leaders don’t want the public to know.

Scott Shackford | 6.5.2019 12:55 PM

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Julian Assange

The Assange Exception to the First Amendment

Freedom of the press is not limited to "legitimate journalists."

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2019 12:01 AM

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HomePage

Air Marshals Secretly Followed an Artsy Virginia Mom on Flights to Make Sure She Wasn't Going to Destroy America

More details emerge on TSA's secret, suspicionless surveillance of certain American travelers.

Scott Shackford | 8.20.2018 2:30 PM

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Hit & Run

L.A. Deputy Faked Evidence—but Was Still Used as a Witness in Criminal Cases for Years

Thanks to California's union-backed secrecy laws, prosecutors and defenders alike don't know about police misconduct.

Scott Shackford | 8.10.2018 1:50 PM

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Civil Liberties

The Right to Know Might Get You Sued

C.J. Ciaramella | 1.1.2018 12:00 PM

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