U.S. intelligence officials are claiming that the Trump administration debated assassinating Julian Assange. Meetings with then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly took place after WikiLeaks’ “Vault 7” data breach. The 2017 leak revealed many of the CIA’s hacking tools. Officials allege that a deeply embarrassed Pompeo wanted revenge. While the CIA hasn’t responded to requests for […]
YouTube Defends Removing Videos From Putin’s Leading Critic
President Biden continues warning Vladimir Putin over his regime’s treatment of imprisoned opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for Navalny’s release in a meeting with the Russian president last month. Merkel’s appeal followed Navalny’s return to Russia after recovering in Germany from a suspected assassination attempt. In contrast, the Kremlin’s leading critic […]
Memo Shows Trump Campaign Knew Election Claims Were Nonsense
Court papers show that the Trump campaign had debunked election conspiracy theories before Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell accused Dominion Voting Systems of conspiring to steal the presidency. The accusation by Giuliani and Powell came in a bizarre press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19. (The New York Times) The court […]
Iowa Poll Should Have Democrats Hoping to Defy History Terrified
The president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections, but a new poll out of the heartland is particularly ominous for Democrats. Though no longer the swing state it once was, Iowa remains competitive for Democrats in the right environment. Polling shows they have their work cut out for them this cycle. CNN’s Chris […]
Report: Frequency of Firearm Violence Prevention Greatly Underestimated
We all know that guns claim innocent lives every year, but a new report from RealClearInvestigations chronicles how gun owners use firearms far more often to save lives than widely believed. Americans who look only at the daily headlines would be surprised to learn that, according to academic estimates, defensive gun uses — including instances when guns […]
Time to Debunk the Narrative That Border Patrol Agents Whipped Migrants
Sorry, liberals—despite what you might think, border patrol agents weren’t whipping migrants huddled under the Del Rio bridge. A Tweet from Vice News this week claimed that law enforcement agents “are whipping Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border in Texas.” Yet neither the story nor the accompanying video shows mounted police whipping migrants. The El Paso […]
What Derailed Congress’ Police Reform Talks?
Bipartisan police reform efforts in the wake of high-profile incidents of police violence have officially ended. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) didn’t hide his disappointment from the media after negotiations with his Democratic colleague New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker failed to achieve consensus more than one year after the death of George Floyd. Sens. Scott and […]
Feds Using New Terrorism Fears to Excuse Government Snooping
The Biden administration uses the January 6 attack on the Capitol Building as its justification for expanding the FBI’s footprint. The decision has significantly increased the number of agents assigned to “domestic terrorism investigations” and their caseloads—posing another round of government overreach in the name of national security. Reason.com’s Brian Doherty explains why FBI Director Christopher Wray’s […]
Police Surveillance Tools Advance as Public Kept in Dark
Police departments may be scouring your social media right now. Authorities across the country increasingly use bleeding-edge software that can track over 120 social media platforms and online databases to retrieve the digital bread crumbs we leave on the internet. Technological developments have slashed profiling work from months down to minutes. These breakthroughs were in […]
Biden Administration Reportedly Considering Using Guantanamo to Detain Haitian Migrants
The White House reportedly seeks a private contractor to run a migrant detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. According to government records obtained by NBC News, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants at least some of the guards to speak Spanish or Haitian Creole. The proposal to alleviate the migrant […]
Biden Administration Bought Drones From Chinese Company Considered National Security Risk
The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood has a new report about outwardly mundane purchases of surveillance drones by law enforcement agencies under the Biden administration. The problem, according to the Pentagon, is that the Chinese manufacturer is considered a possible national security risk. The Secret Service purchased eight drones from Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) on July 26. […]
McConnell Hopeful to Get Republicans Out of the Woods Post-Trump
With another day comes another excerpt from Bob Woodward and Robert Acosta’s book, Peril, that takes us inside the proverbial smoke-filled rooms of Washington, D.C. The latest revelation from Woodward and Acosta is that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) not only doesn’t fear Donald Trump’s wrath; he doesn’t believe embracing Trump is a viable path out of the […]