Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation

Prosecutors in a Los Angeles suburb say they have dramatically scaled back a vast and legally questionable eavesdropping operation, built by Continue reading →

Apple Faces U.S. Demand to Unlock 9 More iPhones

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is demanding Apple’s help in unlocking at least nine iPhones nationwide in addition to the Continue reading →

Apple challenges ‘chilling’ demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

Apple has hit back after a US federal magistrate ordered the company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of Continue reading →

Conservatives’ solution for Gun Violence is School Militarization, and Michael Moore’s last words

By Robert A. Vella The insanity of America grows worse.  Faced with the embarrassing choice between an epidemic of mass Continue reading →

New twist in case against NSA phone data collection

By Robert A. Vella Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against an American citizen who is suing Continue reading →

Big Brother and America’s judicial system

By Robert A. Vella In a court decision which could have been copied verbatim from George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Continue reading →

North Dakota is the first state in the US to legalize police use of drones with tasers and pepper spray

North Dakota, known for its vast frackable oil reserves and being in a Coen brothers film once, is the first Continue reading →

FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying Continue reading →