The Real News: FISA Memo Reveals Surveillance State Operates With Virtually No Accountability
WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2018) – Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released a declassified memo relating to surveillance of a Trump advisor prior to the 2016 election. The true significance of the memo has already been lost in the noisy debate over Russian ties...
Lying, Spying and Hiding
I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduct in office by concealing evidence of spying abuses by the National Security Agency and the FBI. They did this by sitting on a four-page memo that summarizes the abuse...
Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail
by Patrick G. Eddington, CATO Institute At 12:51pm on January 18, 2018–just a day before it was set to expire–the Senate followed the House’s lead and reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA) Section 702 mass surveillance program for...