One Final Expansion of the Surveillance State as Obama Heads for the Door
More federal employees will have access to raw intel data gathered without warrants.
More federal employees will have access to raw intel data gathered without warrants.
Given the administration's treatment of whistleblowers, this would be a big deal.
Justice Department data says just 2.2 percent of U.S. women experience even mild stalking behavior each year.
Some 93,000 immigrants were put through the NSEERS program without a single one being convicted on any terrorism charges.
Obama has not issued more pardons and commutations than any other president or the most in a single day.
Public hearings and documents, not anonymous sources describing unreleased reports, should drive any substantive discussion.
A speech on respecting rule of law and transparency from an administration that did neither.
Standing Rock protesters succeed in blocking Bakken oil pipeline route
Fears that a Trump administration will not be as merciful.
Want to change the rules? Go ask Congress.
Another 79 granted mercy over federal drug war sentences.
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
Sanad al-Kazimi hoped for justice. Twelve years later he's still waiting.
Innovation is an opportunity for some to expand government power.
And new federal regulations could add to the cost of rebuilding or force some residents to abandon their homes.
Determines Title IX interpretation more than just 'guidance.'
It is, as everyone who isn't a corn farmer will tell you.
What happens when we give the government authority to decide what gender means.
His legacy will include hundreds of new federal regulations.
Regulations target transgender access to restrooms in federal buildings and beds in homeless shelters.
Progressives and the failure of massive government spending to boost jobs and economic growth
Justice Department still expects more before presidency ends.
It wasn't just one party who set up a system Trump could use to snoop on his enemies.
The president met with police leaders after five officers were killed in Dallas.
LGBT history gets its first national monument and all that entails.
Obama's former chief speechwriter goes to bat against information leakers.
Reason TV sits down with Jon Favreau for a spirited discussion of Trump's rhetoric and Obama's record on mass surveillance, whistleblowers, drugs, & drones.
Here are your unintended consequences for demanding media censor info about mass killers.
The White House pushed the agency to reclassify internet service under Title II, and the agency complied.
Total for administration reaches 348, but hundreds more may still qualify.
Terrible Senate bill is poised to go nowhere.
That this case got as far as it did is an indictment of the Obama administration.
Possible threat of legal action?
Yet the U.S. economy grew in real terms by 15 percent since 2005.
A week to try to help ex-prisoners return to communities follows years of relentlessly putting them away.
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Obama's action is good policy, bad law, and terrible precedent.
The immigration laws whose enforcement the president is restricting are themselves unconstitutional.
Beware assuming this means the administration is pro-encryption.
The school choice significance of Obama's new education secretary.
The new surveillance rules have nothing to do with stopping terrorism.
This is why you shouldn't accept the FBI's 'just one phone' decryption argument.