National Park Service to Tap Into Entrance Fees to Keep Operating
The extreme step is necessary at popular sites that are open during the shutdown, top parks official says, but its legality is questioned.
EPA Watchdog Faults Agency for Pruitt's 24/7 Security Costs
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.
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Senate Passes FISA Reauthorization Act, With Help of Democrats
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act would consolidate the FBI’s power to search Americans’ digital communications without a warrant.
Amazon Gives Customer Data to the Government at a Record Pace
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.
Juan Cole
GOP Proves It's Not 'the Security Party'
A Republican president is scaring our allies away from tight cooperation against terrorism. (Pictured, Trump with a Russian diplomat.)
Naomi Klein: Expect 'First Shocks of Trump's Disaster Capitalism'
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.
Juan Cole
Trump’s Visa Ban Is About Anti-Muslim Bigotry, Not Security
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.
United Kingdom Passes ‘Snooper's Charter,’ Giving Tremendous Surveillance Power to Agencies
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.
Mass Aerial Surveillance Is a Growing Orwellian Concern in the United States
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 Declares ‘No Charges Are Appropriate’ in Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
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.
