Honoring Chelsea Manning On Her 27th Birthday
From the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year prison sentence for convictions related to leaking classified information to Wikileaks, Chelsea...
View ArticleSt. Louis County Grand Juror Challenges Lifetime Gag Order
Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, second from left standing on the top of a car, hugs an unidentified man, wearing an I am Mike Brown shirt, as she listens to the announcement of the grand...
View ArticleDocuments Reveal Massive DEA Program To Record American’s Whereabouts With...
A camera mounted near the rear window of a police. Photo: Danny Johnston/AP The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties...
View ArticleFBI Ordered To Disclose Surveillance Tactics On Muslim Communities
Craig Monteilh, who says he infiltrated Southern California mosques as an FBI informant and wants to clear his name of suspicions he might have promoted terrorist activities, is reflected in a...
View ArticleWhat’s Next For Surveillance Reform After The USA Freedom Act
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By a 67-32 margin Tuesday, Congress passed the USA Freedom Act — a significant milestone in our efforts to rein in NSA surveillance. The bill marks the first time since passage...
View ArticleTwitter Is Selling Your Tweets To Local Law Enforcement
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter is no longer going to allow US intelligence agencies to access a Twitter-affiliated business service that compiles and analyzes the hundreds of...
View ArticleOne Year Later: We Still Don’t Know How Many Shot By Police
Michael Brown lays dead in the street after being shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. One year ago today, the White House released The Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st...
View ArticleCommunity Activists Sued For $30 Million For Calling Out Local Polluters
Ben Eaton, Mary Schaeffer, Esther Calhoun, and Ellis Long (from left to right) with the ACLU are asking a federal court to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought against them for standing up to the...
View ArticleBorder Patrol Union Scorns Award For Agents Who Follow Policy To Avoid Deadly...
Over the past decade, Customs and Border Protection has had an acute excessive use of force problem, withoutany accountability to date. Last month, however, the agency did something worthy of praise....
View ArticleSenator Proposes Use Of Error-Prone Watchlists To Regulate Guns In America
In the wake of the attack on LGBTQ Americans in Orlando, gun control is again at the forefront of the national conversation. It is also the subject of proposed legislation in Congress. We at the...
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