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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts

corinna barnard — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:27:47 +0000

We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News After years of conflicting decisions by…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The FBI Deserves Kash Patel

corinna barnard — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:05:29 +0000

After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most…

Will Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

corinna barnard — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:00:43 +0000

Hacking a computer without consent or a search warrant is a crime, no matter where the computer is located, or by whom, writes Andrew P. Napolitano By Andrew P. Napolitano During the course of an F.B.I. written response to a…

The Government Compels Silence – Again

corinna barnard — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:15:47 +0000

The government knows how to evade an uncomfortable constitutional provision or High Court opinion, writes Andrew P. Napolitano regarding a case involving Donald Trump, Jack Smith and Elon Musk. By Andrew P. Napolitano When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act…

RAF Spy Flights Over Gaza Could Benefit From Torture

corinna barnard — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:00:11 +0000

Britain’s military could be receiving intelligence from Israel that was obtained under torture, according to human rights campaigners, as Hamza Yusuf and Phil Miller report. By Hamza Yusuf and Phil Miller Declassified UK Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners should have…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Slide Into Authoritarianism

corinna barnard — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:20:14 +0000

The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News All of us who care about civil liberties,…

The Right to be Left Alone

corinna barnard — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:00:48 +0000

Privacy is the most violated of personal rights, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, as government agents evade the natural right to privacy and pretend the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to them. By Andrew P. Napolitano “Every move you make And every…

Scott Ritter: The FBI’s Raid on Peace

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:30:49 +0000

Maybe the F.B.I. thought I would be intimidated by the raid, and opt to remain silent out of fear of generating unwanted attention. But all it really accomplished that day was to execute a raid on peace, the author says.…

Washington’s Exclusive Trust in the ‘Five Eyes’

corinna barnard — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:30:33 +0000

The Anglo-Saxonization of American foreign and military policy has become a distinctive — and provocative — feature of the Biden presidency, writes Michael Klare. By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch.com Wherever he travels globally, President Joe Biden has sought to project…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Postal Service’s Attack on Privacy

corinna barnard — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:00:03 +0000

Somehow, a quasi-government agency that spies on individuals with no probable cause or due process, in a haphazard manner that offers no recourse for the people being targeted, doesn’t seem constitutional. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News I’ve written…