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Green cards, not green cars
GreenTech, the electric car company found by Terry McAuliffe (Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, and erstwhile chair of the Democratic party) is under investigation by the SEC. One of the...
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White House lied about Congressional briefing?
The Washington Post reports: A white paper released by the White House on Friday argues that Congress knew exactly what it was approving [viz a viz NSA collection of telephone records] when it...
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Judge rules against EPA in email case
The Washington Free Beacon reports: The Environmental Protection Agency may have intentionally skirted public disclosure requirements under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge ruled...
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Benghazi scapegoat released
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has been released from prison. Nakoula spent a year in prison after having been scapegoated for responsibility for the Benghazi attack on the basis of a film he made attacking...
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Public enemy #1
Having failed to convict George Zimmerman, Florida’s rogue prosecutors are now going after his wife. (Previous post.)
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Surveillance uber alles
Wow: The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business,...
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Okay to screen for criminals
A victory for sanity and a defeat for the Obama administration: A Maryland court has dismissed a lawsuit against an events-services company accused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of...
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Court: president must obey legal mandate
The DC appeals court says the president is not above the law: “The president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections,” Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh...
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Obama wants warrantless cell phone searches
The Obama administration asks the Supreme Court to allow searches cell phones without a warrant. Remember, this is the same president who, as a senator, condemned the practice of recording the phone...
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White House knew of Miranda detention
The Wall Street Journal reports: The White House was given advance notice of the British government’s plans to detain the partner of the Guardian reporter who has written a series of high-profile...
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DHCP is not a crime
A federal court has ruled that circumventing an IP-address-ban by changing your IP address is criminal. Not even changing your MAC address, mind you, which at least typically is specific to a computer,...
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LightSquared epilogue
Remember the LightSquared affair? That was the telecom startup owned by Philip Falcone, a major Democratic donor who tried to parley his political connections into profit by getting the FCC to allow...
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No right to bad-faith litigation
In a potentially important case, a federal appeals court has ruled that the First Amendment does not give labor unions the right to engage in a pattern of bad-faith litigation: The case is Waugh Chapel...
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IRS bosses met with Obama just before targeting Tea Party
The Daily Caller reports: IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of...
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IRS still targeting Tea Party
Despite the scandal, the IRS is brazenly continuing to harass the Tea Party: An IRS letter sent to the group last week and obtained by The Washington Times contains a laundry list of requests related...
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Thank God for the Atlantic Ocean
This is why you don’t give up your national sovereignty: A triple murderer is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge his “life means life” sentence, the first Briton to do so. . ....
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Agency that doesn’t understand 4th amendment doesn’t understand 1st amendment...
The NSA tried (and temporarily succeeded) in having this t-shirt banned: Not only is the design clearly protected speech under the First Amendment, the law that the NSA was trying to use doesn’t even...
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It’s getting hard to distinguish between criminals and law enforcement
The FBI admits that it distributed malware in order to break the anonymity of the Tor network. For a private citizen this would be a crime, but the government can do whatever it feels like.
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Phony scandal indeed
If there’s nothing to the Benghazi scandal, why is the CIA disciplining employees who won’t sign an agreement not to talk to Congress, and conducting polygraphs to make sure that no one is talking to...
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IRS surveilled Tea Party
A new facet of the IRS scandal comes to light: In May, the IRS acknowledged subjecting conservative groups to intrusive scrutiny and delaying applications for far too long before approving them. Some...
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