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The FBI and the Shattering of Students for a Democratic Society
The FBI destroyed the largest radical student organization of the 1960s, utilizing the press, anti-SDS comics and by instructing their informants to vote.
FBI Targets Minority Communities in Mortgage Fraud Investigations
Former bank regulator Bill Black says Attorney General Eric Holder must stop targeting minorities and instead focus on the mortgage fraud of banksters.
New Police Hacking Technologies Raise Familiar Questions About Civil Liberties
In the last decade, US police have used every available tool to conduct surveillance. With the FBI taking that fight to the internet, we must make sure policing-by-malware doesn't …
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From Somaly Mam to “Eden”: How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
After one investigation surrounding an anti-sex trafficking activist, Somaly Mam, sex worker rights activists have been working to expose another former sex worker's story as a sensational, dishonest trafficking …
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Cutting Off Sex Work Advertising Sites Disrupts Communities, Not Trafficking
Shutting down advertising sites used by sex workers silences peer-to-peer harm reduction channels that help sex workers in the absence of formal services and does little to address trafficking.
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Phony Justice in a Phony War
An FBI interrogation of a member of the defense team for one of the accused at Guantanamo is another blow to the integrity of a military commission.
The NSA Comes Home: Police Departments Conceal Phone Tracking Equipment From Courts
Police departments across the nation are concealing their use of cellphone tracking equipment from local courts.
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Giving Up Essential Liberty to Purchase a Little Temporary Safety
Like everyone on a no-fly list, Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim had no idea she was on it until her life was turned upside down.
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The DOJ Wants to Hack Your Webcam
A group of lawyers and academics recently prepared for a dramatic expansion of the rules for when law enforcement is allowed to hack people's computers.
Conversation With James Risen: Can Journalists Protect Their National Security Sources?
The New York Times reporter James Risen is in a waiting game with the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, and the fate of a journalist's right to …