The warrant the FBI used in the Playpen investigation—which resulted in the delivery of malware to over a thousand computers, located around the world—violated Rule 41, an important rule of federal criminal procedure. Although Rule 41 may seem obscure, it…
SAN RAFAEL, CA – AUGUST 20: Bottles of Arrowhead water are displayed on a shelf at a convenience store on August 20, 2014 in San Rafael, California. Despite the historic California drought that has left most of State to ration…
Drug Policy Forum of California Pro-reform candidates are in green; Anti-reform in red; Neutral in black. (ref to orig for color) PROP 64 – PRESIDENT – US CONGRESS – CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE – LOCAL RACES – BALLOT PROPOSITIONS Proposition 64 Californians…
Submitted by ButtCracker “In the wake of the DNC server hack and well-documented efforts by states to suppress the vote, citizens are rightly concerned,” Rep. Hank Johnson said in a statement. A pair of comprehensive, complimentary election infrastructure reform bills,…
We get reaction to this week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing where Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over a growing scandal at the major Wall Street bank involving thousands of employees who took private customer information to…
Submitted by: ButtCracker New Revelations—always on a Friday or just before a major holiday, or both A 189-page summary of interviews conducted in the year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private server shed new light on the shifting stories Clinton’s aides…
Submitted by Buttkicker The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say The map depicts sites that received anthrax samples from the Defense Department’s Dugway Proving Ground…
Sane Progressive. (Petition is in video description on Youtube): The Department of Homeland Security Je Johnson has stated the Department is considering seizing unconstitutional jurisdiction over US Elections and has recently formed a Cybersecurity Election Infrastructure working group (two of…
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson // J. Scott Applewhite/AP Less than 20 percent of states have asked the Homeland Security Department for help assessing the security of machines at the polls and for scans of online voter registration databases…
Submitted by: ButtCracker This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film ‘Snowden’ hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a presidential pardon for the whistleblower who revealed the NSA’s mass surveillance program in 2013. With…
