The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reported to have launched a criminal investigation into FBI employees' alleged misuse of national security letters to obtain information on Americans.
Updates to stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity.
The more than 40 local and regional intelligence fusion centers created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to improve information sharing between the federal government and state, local and tribal law enforcement, are failing to accomplish their mission of protecting the homeland.
On April 27, 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate intelligence committee that Congress should renew the USA PATRIOT Act, saying that there had "not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse." But six days earlier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent Gonzales a report which said otherwise.
Updates to stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity include spying, spying and more spying.
This day the rain moved in early in the afternoon, and continued well into the night, and yet people still set off their fireworks here in a city where it's, as far as I know, perfectly legal to do so. But while the star-spangled banner yet waves, the freedom it represents is a distant memory.
A new audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s use of national security letters to gain access to information about domestic phone calls, e-mails and personal financial information revealed over 1,000 cases where agents may have violated the law or regulations governing the use of the letters.
When it comes to freedom on the Internet, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is at the forefront of the battle. Whether it's the national ID card, digital rights management, online privacy or domestic spying, EFF is doing the hard work of defending against those who would abuse the power of government against the people. That's why I give them money.
Do you know who's sleeping with whom in Washington? Is it you? If you can prove it, you just might make a cool million bucks. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt on Sunday offered up to $1 million for "documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder."
A passport card set to be issued by the State Department for travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean doesn't require privacy protection, even though it uses a radio frequency identification chip which can be read from 20 feet away, because the chip itself doesn't contain personal information, according to the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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