About: C. Mitchell Shaw
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Baltimore Mayor: Freddie Gray “Settlement” Intended to Avoid “Harm to the Community,” “Divisiveness”
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Wednesday a payment of $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray, calling it a settlement for all civil claims in his death while...
CIA Confirms That E-mails on Hillary’s Server Were Classified
New revelations in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal are damning to her claims that she "never sent or received any e-mail that was deemed classified, that was marked classified."...
Anti-Police Sentiment Growing; Cop Initially Denied Service at Restaurant
There is a growing anti-police sentiment in America as the result of slanted, incendiary mainstream media coverage in the wake of the events of Ferguson and Baltimore. It is...
Madison Police Officer Attacked by Angry Crowd; Diffuses Situation
Last week a police officer was surrounded by a large, angry crowd and attacked. Some in the crowd were heard saying, "We need to start killing these officers." The...
Hillary’s Computer Tech to Plead the Fifth; Congress May Offer a Deal
Bryan Pagliano — who has said he will plead the Fifth when he is called to testify before Congress later this week — maintained the private e-mail server that...
Judge In NSA Spying Case Anxious to Make a Ruling
In December 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the NSA's spying program that collects information on the vast majority of phone calls in the United States...
New DOJ Policy Restricts Use of Cellphone Spying Tools
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new policy regarding the way law enforcement can use cell-site simulators. The policy requires all federal law enforcement agencies...
Cybersecurity Info Sharing Act: Gov’t Fails Security; Wants More Power
With a track record of failure where protecting its own computer networks or investigating major hacks is concerned, the federal government now wants to use that failure as an...
Hillary Clinton and Protégé Huma Abedin: Two Peas in a Pod?
Hillary's protégé Huma Abedin came to work in the White House in 1996 as a junior intern assigned to the first lady. She has been connected with Hillary Clinton...
Appeals Court Overturns NSA Spying Case
Last May a U.S. District Court handed down a decision that the NSA's broad-sweeping collection of private citizens' phone meta-data was illegal, "unprecedented and unwarranted." Friday, an appeals court...
FBI “A-team” Conducting Criminal Investigation of Hillary’s E-mail
If Hillary Clinton had worked half as hard to protect the data on her e-mail server as she has worked to protect herself from the fallout for not protecting...
Police Departments Use Secret Tool to Spy on Mobile Phones
Local police all over the country are using highly sophisticated, very expensive surveillance tools to capture information from cell tower traffic from the innocent and the guilty alike. The...
Hillary Taking “Responsibility” While Dodging Blame
Hillary Clinton has a rare gift for dodging blame even when she "take[s] responsibility." Dogged by accusations that she both sent and received classified intelligence via her private e-mail...
New Evidence Shreds Hillary’s Denial; Implicates Close Aide
"I never sent or received any e-mail that was deemed classified, that was marked classified." Hillary Clinton has repeated that claim in several different ways since the beginning of...
Microsoft Increases Secrecy; Expands Spyware to Windows 7 and 8
The Windows 10 update that turns your PC into a portal for spying on you was just the beginning of what Microsoft is doing. As more and more people...