The Environmental Protection Agency failed to justify its expenditure of more than $3.5 million to guard Scott Pruitt, the report finds. Travel costs for his bodyguards from February 2017 to December 2017 were $739,580.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act would consolidate the FBI’s power to search Americans’ digital communications without a warrant.
The technology giant reports a spike in the amount of consumer information turned over to U.S. law enforcement in the first six months of 2017.
A Republican president is scaring our allies away from tight cooperation against terrorism. (Pictured, Trump with a Russian diplomat.)
The writer uses the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe to suggest the upcoming economic, security and weather calamities that Donald Trump and Mike Pence could both cause and exploit.
If the president announces a policy to halt visas for citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Wednesday will be a day of ethnic hatred.
The law also requires internet and phone companies to hold on to user data for at least a year and to make it easily searchable by law enforcement.
The federal government has been equipping planes with monitoring devices for some time. But how far will law enforcement agencies go in order to watch citizens?
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that although Clinton and her team were “extremely careless” in their use of a personal email server, his agency recommends that no criminal charges be brought against her.
Airport security guards violently arrested a disabled teenage cancer patient during a security screening at Memphis International Airport, the girl’s family has alleged in a lawsuit.
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