FBI Informants Inside Geek Squad May Have Compromised Child Porn Case
Geek Squad employees — who are also paid by the FBI — have been using a computer forensic tool developed in cooperation with the FBI to search customers' computers...
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Russia Probe Witch Hunt Claims Another Victim: Nunes Steps Down
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has stepped down from the investigation into Russian interference in the recent presidential election. While Nunes is the latest casualty in the...
Despite Reports, FCC Rules Overturned by Trump Did Not Actually Protect Privacy
Late last month, President Trump signed a controversial bill preventing new restrictions on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from going into effect. The issue is sharply divided along party lines,...
Ranking Democrat Investigating Trump’s Russian Connections: No Definitive Proof
In the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the recent presidential election, much of the focus has been on the alleged connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. And...
Trump Surveillance: Has the Deep State Finally Gone Too Far?
The agents of the deep state have gone too far this time. If President Trump pushes back with the full weight of his Article II authority and has the...
CIA Has Tools for Framing Russia, China, Others for Hacks
The most recent release by WikiLeaks shows that the CIA has developed obfuscation tools for causing its hacks to be falsely attributed to foreign powers. And WikiLeaks has released...
Tulsa Teen Comes Home From School With Contraceptive Implant
In a shocking case coming out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mother who consented to what she was told was a “field trip” discovered that her 16-year-old daughter had been...
Can the CIA Hack iPhones and Macs?
The most recent WikiLeaks disclosures, published last week, detail hacks developed by the CIA to penetrate iPhones and Mac laptops. The leaks — codenamed “Dark Matter” by WikiLeaks —...
In Child Pornography Case, Government Admits CIA Leaks Are Real
In a criminal case about a child pornography website that was operated by the FBI for two weeks in 2015, the government suppressed the recent WikiLeaks disclosures about computer...
Texas Con-Con Battle Heats Up
The Texas Legislature is once again considering the controversial — and dangerous — course of applying to Congress for a constitutional convention. Two such Senate bills have been passed...
Police Sergeant to Uber Driver: Stop Recording or “I’m Going to Take You To Jail.”
The Uber driver and lawyer who was told by a Wilmington, North Carolina, police sergeant that if he did not stop recording he would be arrested says he thinks...
Good News From CIA Leak: Encryption Works!
The media have spun the recent story about CIA-developed hacking tools by claiming either that there's nothing to worry about, or that the problem is so severe that it...
It’s Time for Congress to Investigate the CIA Hacking Scandal
With WikiLeaks providing hardware and software manufactures with technical details about the hacking tools the CIA developed — and lost — the manufactures are working to plug the holes....
Intel Community, White House’s Own Words Admit Validity of CIA Leaks
Recent statements by the CIA and White House, coupled with the FBI's investigation into the source of leaked CIA documents and published by WikiLeaks, serve as admissions that the...
CIA “Weapons” Let Hackers Use Your Computer, Phone, & TV to Spy on You
The CIA hacking tools disclosed by WikiLeaks Tuesday allow hackers to remotely control a plethora of devices — including iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, computers, and SmartTVs —...
WikiLeaks: CIA Cyber “Weapons” Are Loose in the Wild
Leaked documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday show that show that the CIA — in a move reminiscent of the Keystone Kops — “lost control of the majority of its...
Trump’s “Wiretapping” Allegations Based in Fact
President Trump is sticking to his claims that President Obama — in a move that would make Watergate look small by comparison — wiretapped Trump Tower in the weeks...
Is Trump’s Wiretapping Claim Credible?
Almost as soon as President Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the elections, Obama not only denied it, but also denied that he had ever...
Did Sessions Lie Under Oath About “Communications With the Russians”?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions had two conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States last year. Now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill — Democrat and Republican alike — are demanding...
2017 Oscars: President Trump Steals the Show
The most prominent figure at this year’s Oscar Awards Sunday night was not even there and was not nominated for anything. The consistent center of attention — all of...