The Department of Homeland Security has posted the latest update to a series of Privacy Impact Assessments attempting to whitewash the invasions of privacy and human rights inherent in a comprehensive system of automated facial identification of travelers. The latest PIA reveals more than the DHS has previously admitted about the nature and scope of…
The Department of Homeland Security has posted the latest update to a series of Privacy Impact Assessments attempting to whitewash the invasions of privacy and human rights inherent in a comprehensive system of automated facial identification of travelers. The latest PIA reveals more than the DHS has previously admitted about the nature and scope of…
A bill silently passed through Congress and to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desk that was signed right before Thanksgiving last week, which would re-designate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) into a new agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA.) A statement from President Trump was issued…
With the push of a button and at the direction of President Donald Trump, a “Presidential Alert” was sent to all cellphones across America at 2:18 p.m. ET yesterday. The message was the first test of what many are calling the “Presidential Alert” system, a new way to notify Americans across the country of national…
Agencies such as the FBI would be required to obtain a warrant to access Americans’ data Legislation announced Wednesday would limit U.S. law enforcement access to data collected by the National Security Agency on American citizens. The bill, expected to be introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers this week, aims to reform Section 702…
The Department of Homeland Security in New Jersey has officially listed Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization after a rash of violent attacks by the group targeting supporters of Donald Trump. Under the heading ‘Anarchist Extremists: Antifa’, the njhomelandsecurity.gov websitecharacterizes Antifa under the designation of “domestic terrorism”. “In the past year, Antifa groups have become active…
There’s really only one thing that most people expect the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to do, and that is capturing and deporting illegal immigrants. In reality, their powers and responsibilities are much more broad than that, and their activities can easily effect the lives of American citizens. That’s what the Torres family learned when…
US election systems will henceforth be treated as “critical infrastructure,” the Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson decreed Friday in a move some are describing as a major federal overreach. In a letter to the Associated Press, Johnson revealed the US government would monitor and intervene in future elections, a process previously handled on a state-by-state…
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, reliving the same set of circumstances over and over and over again: egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government…
Was this Texas Ranger correct? A high ranking Texas Ranger wrote to me back in April of 2015. He said stop focusing on Walmart closings. He said ISIS is poised to destroy life as we know it in this country. This Ranger was referring to Jade Helm 15 which has morphed into Jade Helm 16.…
