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FBI Preaches Dangers Of 'Cybercrime' To The Choir

FBI Director Robert Mueller recently spoke at a cybersecurity conference where he reiterated his belief that so-called cybercrime will soon surpass terrorism as the biggest threat in America. Perhaps...

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FBI Turns Back On 2,750 Of The 3,000 GPS Devices It Turned Off For Lack Of A...

In January, we wrote about the Supreme Court's somewhat surprising ruling on GPS monitoring by law enforcement, in which it suggested (but didn't fully say) that putting a GPS device on a car might...

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Google Asks Feds For Permission To Publish FISA Requests In Its Transparency...

In the wake of the revelation of PRISM last week, Google admitted that it does not include FISA requests in its transparency report -- which has led some to question the value of the transparency...

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FBI Boss: Collecting Billions Of Phone Records Could Prevent Next 9/11,...

Robert Mueller, the director of the FBI testified in front of the House judiciary committee on Thursday, and like others before him, attempted to justify widespread domestic surveillance by pointing...

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Why The NSA And President Bush Got The FISA Court To Reinterpret The Law In...

Over the weekend, the Washington Post published yet another revelation about the NSA's surveillance capabilities, including some details of various "code named" data collection projects like MAINWAY,...

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FBI Admits To Using Drones To Spy On Americans

Most people in the US still associate government use of drones with far away places. But they might want to start paying more attention to what's happening over their own heads. The FBI has now...

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FBI Admits That Obeying The Constitution Just Takes Too Much Time

While much of the news coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller's Congressional hearing this week focused on his admission that the FBI has used drones domestically, there were some other points...

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FBI Has Used Drones On Americans To Save A Child... And The Rest Is Secret

You may recall a few weeks ago that FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted to using drones to spy on Americans (and that there were no rules about using those drones). In response, Senator Rand Paul...

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FBI Redacts Letter About Drone Usage That Was Already Published In Full By...

The government's overclassification problem has turned its redaction efforts into a farce. When not deploying questionable exceptions to avoid returning responsive documents to FOIA requests,...

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FBI Preaches Dangers Of 'Cybercrime' To The Choir

FBI Director Robert Mueller recently spoke at a cybersecurity conference where he reiterated his belief that so-called cybercrime will soon surpass terrorism as the biggest threat in America. Perhaps...

View Article

FBI Turns Back On 2,750 Of The 3,000 GPS Devices It Turned Off For Lack Of A...

In January, we wrote about the Supreme Court's somewhat surprising ruling on GPS monitoring by law enforcement, in which it suggested (but didn't fully say) that putting a GPS device on a car might...

View Article

Google Asks Feds For Permission To Publish FISA Requests In Its Transparency...

In the wake of the revelation of PRISM last week, Google admitted that it does not include FISA requests in its transparency report -- which has led some to question the value of the transparency...

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FBI Boss: Collecting Billions Of Phone Records Could Prevent Next 9/11,...

Robert Mueller, the director of the FBI testified in front of the House judiciary committee on Thursday, and like others before him, attempted to justify widespread domestic surveillance by pointing...

View Article


Why The NSA And President Bush Got The FISA Court To Reinterpret The Law In...

Over the weekend, the Washington Post published yet another revelation about the NSA's surveillance capabilities, including some details of various "code named" data collection projects like MAINWAY,...

View Article

FBI Admits To Using Drones To Spy On Americans

Most people in the US still associate government use of drones with far away places. But they might want to start paying more attention to what's happening over their own heads. The FBI has now...

View Article


FBI Admits That Obeying The Constitution Just Takes Too Much Time

While much of the news coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller's Congressional hearing this week focused on his admission that the FBI has used drones domestically, there were some other points...

View Article

FBI Has Used Drones On Americans To Save A Child... And The Rest Is Secret

You may recall a few weeks ago that FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted to using drones to spy on Americans (and that there were no rules about using those drones). In response, Senator Rand Paul...

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Image may be NSFW.
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FBI Redacts Letter About Drone Usage That Was Already Published In Full By...

The government's overclassification problem has turned its redaction efforts into a farce. When not deploying questionable exceptions to avoid returning responsive documents to FOIA requests,...

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Whistleblowers Band Together To Sue FBI, NSA And DOJ For Malicious...

This should be fun. A bunch of whistleblowers that were hounded, surveilled and prosecuted/persecuted by the US government are banding together to sue all the big names in domestic surveillance....

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DOJ Says Trump's Tweets Declassifying All Russia Investigation Docs Doesn't...

Investigative reporter/FOIA terrorist Jason Leopold has been suing the US government for a while now, trying to get access to the full Robert Mueller special counsel report investigating President...

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