Today the Senate defeated an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have tacked controversial dragnet spying legislation onto the omnibus military appropriations authorization.
The Obama administration is trying to tack 20 years onto a Florida man's tax fraud sentence for the supposed crime of possessing books the government doesn't like. The Intercept reports:
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden infamously said the US government kills people based on metadata. It turns out the US kills people based on metadata derived from Tweets and Facebook posts.
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Artist and journalist Molly Crabapple has produced another fantastic, devastating animation for Fusion, this time on the nation's vast and little known immigration detention network. Watch it and share it widely.
According to the DOJ, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal law passed in the wake of the Enron scandal, makes it a crime to delete your browser history if the federal government might want it for a criminal investigation, even if you don't know that the investigation exists.
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We might finally have a constitutional challenge to secretive stingray surveillance, after men accused of shooting a California police officer have contested the warrantless use of a cell phone tracking device to locate them.
Reveal's Ali Winston reports:
