Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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The F.B.I.’s Black Phantom Menace
In a report that was never supposed to be made public, but was on Oct. 6 by foreignpolicy.org, the F.B.I.’s Counterterrorism Division has concluded that there is a real threat from the “black identity extremist” movement.
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Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists
Secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with approval from two internal officials — far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures.
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Act Out! [73] - Battling Big Brother & The Man; The Surveillance State & Protester’s Rights
This week, as the DNC rages on, we're talking state surveillance – digging deep into the past and present with surveillance expert, Chip Gibbons from Defending Dissent.
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Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill With Huge Privacy Flaws – A Backdoor to Surveillance
Privacy advocates demanded Congress kill or reform a bill they say hides new government surveillance mechanisms in the guise of security protections – but the Senate passed CISA on Tuesday.
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FBI Overstated Forensic Evidence In More Than 200 Trials
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
In the place where the target’s real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: “Mohammed Raghead.”
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Recent Crimes of the FBI: Is Agency America's Greatest Threat to Domestic Freedoms?
The agency is not only guilty of withholding information, but also of entrapment and the outright creation of so-called terrorists.
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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police
“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”
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Report: Massive Data-Sharing Among U.S. Law Agencies Is Wasteful, "Organized Chaos"
A report released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school found inconsistent rules, inadequate oversight, wastefulness and insufficient regard for civil liberties nationwide among the FBI, DHS and local police departments.
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Police "War Games" And Weapons Expo Brings Global Militarized Elite to Oakland
At the 7th annual “Urban Shield” event held in Oakland, law enforcement officials from across America and the world could browse and purchase a plethora of military weapons, from the latest in munitions to armored cars and drones.