The House of Representatives did something representative of their constituents' interest! In forwarding a bipartisan amendment to the military budget, the House voted overwhelmingly to bring the security state's surveillance programs more in line with the Fourth Amendment.
I like Andrew Rosenthal's take on the amendment, published at the New York Times:
An Oakland Police Department internal training guide informs us that license plate readers don't always work. If your license plate is "extremely dirty", the machines might not catch it. Interesting!
h/t @cfarivar
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Everyone has something to hide.
Last week, people all over the world were appalled to see that the UK government may, for the first time, conduct a criminal trial in complete secrecy. If the government gets its way, the public will never hear the names of the defendants, the specific charges against them, nor the government’s evidence to support those secret charges.
