Beyond the NSA: Other Agencies Spy on You, Too

The Surveillance State Repeal Act would rescind the PATRIOT Act entirely, as well as the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, restoring rights that have been constitutionally violated by the FBI among other agencies.

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Spying on "Terrorists Abroad," Suppressing Dissent at Home: When We Become the Hunted

If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read this interview.

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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now

As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Spying on Americans: A Very Old Story

There is nothing new about political surveillance. In the United States, political spying by the federal government began in the early part of the twentieth century.

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America's Defining Choice: A Free or An Authoritian Future

Today's whistleblowers are fighting the same scourge that the Founders and every genuine patriot has fought against, only today, the authoritarianism that we're confronting isn't a foreign enemy, but one from within.

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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama

Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.

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Police Entrapment Scandal Ends in Misdemeanors for Occupy Austin Protestors

Six members of Occupy Austin pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in a Houston court last week, concluding an entrapment case that involved three Austin police informants supplying a PVC sleeve to the group.

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