The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MORE
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Andrew Napolitano: Spying, Lying And Torture
The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MOREPublic Servants Acting As Public Masters
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. "Nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn't do that." That was CIA Director John Brennan's answer
in March when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., charged the CIA with
breaking into computers used by Senate investigators looking into CIA
misconduct. It turns out that the CIA would do that — ... MOREThis Independence Day, America Again Has a Monarch
by Andrew Napolitano. After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or serious ... MORE
VIDEO: Edward Snowden Censored By NBC ABout 9-11
A video from footage left on the cutting room floor.
Alex Pappas: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Rand Paul gets a standing ovation at Berkeley. Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and warning the students: “Your right to privacy is under assault.” ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Freedom For Me, But Not For Thee
The government is not us. Initially, I was gratified to learn that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was unafraid to take on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the issue of domestic spying. The CIA is limited by its charter to stealing secrets from foreigners outside the U.S. However, ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Rivalry Of Government Hackers
More evidence the government is not us. The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking into one another's computers. When the CIA was established in 1947, Congress and President Truman were concerned that it might not confine itself to spying. Its sole statutory purpose was to ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying On The President
An unwitting dupe or a totalitarian micromanager? When German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Berlin in 2008, she could not have imagined that she was blessing the workplace for the largest and most effective gaggle of American spies anywhere outside of the U.S. It seems straight ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Agency Girls Gone Wild
Too dirty to clean up their acts? Agency girls are going wild. Obama’s leading ladies make students partying on the beach look like amateurs. Misbehavin’ is a resume booster in Washington, D.C. But not the kind of misbehaving that you might think. There are no wet t-shirt contests. It’s a buttoned-up misbehavin’—personified by ... MORECIA Chief: We'll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher
by Spencer Ackerman. More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the
internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your
light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an
“Internet of Things” — that is, ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Storm Clouds Gathering
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth. President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Obama's Secret Gun-Running Program
Introducing BENGHAZIGATE. Liberals don’t want honest Americans like you to have guns. Liberals
just want to arm foreign rebels in crapshoot attempts to “end global
violence.” But liberals feign ignorance when the rebels they arm end up
being criminals who kill innocent Americans like the late U.S.
Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. ... MOREPamela Geller: The Epic Failure Of Our Intel Agencies
Losing our liberties in trade for what security? I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area. A $50,000 reward has been offered for ... MOREGene Healy: Rand Paul Vs The "Forever War"
Challenging modern conservative orthodoxy. The cruelest thing about politics is that it occasionally gets your hopes up. Sometimes, just when you've almost concluded that the best D.C. has to offer is ringside seats at the latest legislative catastrophe, you get an unexpected outbreak of political courage and common ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Obama's Secret Court For Killing
What about the laws he swore to uphold? President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son's American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just ... MOREOpposing Out-Of-Control Government Spying
by Andrew Napolitano. After President Richard Nixon
was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered
what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA
to engage in domestic spying. In that pre-digital era, the spying
consisted of listening to telephone calls, opening mail, and using
undercover agents to ... MOREBrian Siegal: America Inching Toward Police State
Citizens under the microscope. Remember, remember the ninth of November. It was a day not unlike any other, but a day that is yet another constantly overlooked reminder of the terrible state of this great nation. It is the day David Petraeus’ resignation was accepted. So, wonderful American citizens, I’d like to take this time to have a ... MORE
SF Gate: Petraeus Scandal Reveals Threat To Privacy
Where did the checks on government go? All Americans who regard privacy as a fundamental right should be unnerved by the breadth and the detail of a search through personal correspondence in the scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus. For a moment, put aside the question of whether Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the top ... MOREMike Riggs: Obama Is Transparently Disappointing
Where did "unprecedented openness in government" go? On March 28, 2011, a group of leading transparency advocates
passed through the security checkpoints along the perimeter of the
White House compound to present Barack Obama with an
award for his efforts to open up government. The president who took
office promising “an .... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Silencing General Petraeus
The judge connects the dots. The evidence that Gen. David Petraeus, formerly the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the author of the current Army field manual, Princeton Ph.D. and, until last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was forced to resign from the CIA to silence him is far stronger than is the version of ... MORE
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