Trump and company are trying to drag the former National Security Adviser into the fake “wiretapping” charge, but she isn’t having it.
On midnight on Sunday, key provisions of the “Patriot Act” expired, including those points that say that the government can listen to and track any American’s phone calls without a warrant. Although the Senate convened a rare late-night Sunday session to try to reach a compromise, Kentucky Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul was able […]
Yesterday, in the case of Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police must have a warrant before searching the cell phones of people they arrest. Read the full ruling here. The ruling applies to local police jurisdictions but does not affect National Security Agency (NSA) data collection programs that were leaked, over […]
Hastily passed 45 days after 9/11 in the name of national security, the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the […]
