The Legally Authorized Charges Against Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Don't Tell Us What Justice Requires
The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
While it remains unclear how sensitive the documents he retained were, his attempts to conceal them are easier to prove.
By taking records that did not belong to him and refusing to return them, William Barr says, Trump "provoked this whole problem himself."
There's no deep mystery behind why Trump kept boxes of classified documents. He wanted them.
The former president's retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security.
The recorded comments could be relevant to a charge that the former president willfully mishandled national defense information.
The former president says he did not solicit election fraud; he merely tried to correct a "rigged" election. And he says he did not illegally retain government records, because they were his property.
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
Even if you despise the media, you should be rooting for better public record laws.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
If Trump's handling of government secrets was "totally irresponsible," how should we describe Biden's conduct?
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It's not Trump vs. Biden: High officials play fast and loose with government secrets, but only regular people face harsh penalties.
Prosecuting Trump for keeping government records at Mar-a-Lago now seems doomed for political as well as legal reasons.
A law to protect people engaged in journalism from having to reveal sources gets blocked by Sen. Tom Cotton.
Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.
Federal espionage laws are used once again to punish a whistleblower.
A recent WHO investigation has left many questions unanswered.
in a case stemming from the Darren Wilson prosecution.
Carter Page was not an anomaly.
Xavier Becerra conceals bad behavior by cops in his state, and even threatens journalists attempting to expose them.
The vague wording of Marsy's Laws allows law enforcement to classify themselves as "victims" after shooting suspects.
U.K. government officials insisted they didn't collect and store communications data of Privacy International. Turns out they did.
More details emerge on TSA's secret, suspicionless surveillance of certain American travelers.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Thanks to California's union-backed secrecy laws, prosecutors and defenders alike don't know about police misconduct.
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Governments have gone to great effort to keep the sources and methods of their death penalty regimes secret.
Partisan posturing drowns out important civil liberties concerns.
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
A year after law passed exempting footage from public records laws, the inevitable consequences.
Justice Department announces tripling of investigations.
Lack of due process or transparency keeps father from knowing why it happened or how to fix it.
A Senate report on Trump administration leaks overstates national security risks.
Whistleblower who helped make WikiLeaks famous freed after seven years.
A failure of transparency and responsibility by multiple nations.
Conservatives at Berkeley and critics of the Trump administration both deserve freedom of speech.
A war on WikiLeaks will ultimately threaten a free press.
Meanwhile, guess which side is now assuming surveillance equals guilt?
Tax returns leaked; Rachel Maddow's exclusive gets scooped by White House pre-response.
When transparency and government corruption can come from the same mechanism.
California's shielding of police misconduct affects criminal cases.
Proposal seen as targeting whistleblowers and journalists.
Vetoes legislation requiring better reporting of how law enforcement gets its hands on people's stuff.
The examination of Huma Abedin's emails was legally justified, but it could have been faster and quieter.
Report may be out by next month.
Secret snooping gets slightly less so.
Will we ever truly know the full extent that we used waterboarding and abusive techniques on prisoners during the war on terror?