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After the IG Report, Let’s Kill the FBI While We Can

“Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It’s demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let’s kill the FBI while we can.”

U.S. Quits UN Human Rights Council Because It’s Not Pro-Israel Enough

“Many of its current members — they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — have poor human rights records themselves.”

Impeachment: What Did the Founders Mean By “High Misdemeanors?”

It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”

California Committee Passes Measure to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance, Establish More Local Control

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 20, 2018) – Yesterday, a California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state.…

State Dept. Wants All Visa Applicants To Provide Their Social Media Information

“This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants.”

Foster parents of separated immigrant children ‘don’t know how much worse it could be’

“‘Many kids are having nightmares, can’t eat, can’t sleep … don’t know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear … the memory never goes away.'”

Border Patrol Recorded Joking About Children Sobbing For Their Parents

“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”

Another shelter for warehoused immigrant children is planned for Houston

“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”