IRS Now Blocking 362,000+ Americans From Getting Passports
"The stated purpose of the bill was 'to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.'"
Federal court: TSA agents can’t be sued for false arrests, abuse, or assault
"According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act."
The Supreme Court’s Deference to the Pentagon
"The national-security establishment has become the most powerful part of the federal government, one to which the judicial branch (as well as the other two branches) inevitably defers in matters that are critically important to the Pentagon, the CIA, or the NSA."
Homeland Security asks Pentagon to house 12,000 migrant family members
"The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days."
Homeland Security mass US citizen face-scanning program rolled out in Orlando
"The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year."
Be on the Lookout: Amazon Turns its Gaze to Surveillance
"AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion."
N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records
"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."
ICE whistleblower gets a visit from Homeland Security goons during TV interview
"Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to 'spin' information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland's mayor."
Nineteen ICE agents call for dissolution of agency
"They were concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration was preventing them from carrying out the agency’s other duties."
Captured And Enslaved? U.S. Says You Provide “Material Support” To Terrorists
"This terrible menace to national security 'was kidnapped by guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 and was coerced into undergoing weapons training and performing forced labor in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes.' Previously, the left-wing guerrillas 'forced [her] to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed.'"