"A West Virginia Supreme Court justice faces up to 395 years in prison and $5.5 million in fines after being hit with a 22-count indictment on numerous charges of fraud and corruption."
"That means it's harder for angry elected officials to use their power to arrest people they simply don't like."
"The FBI trained Geek Squad employees to go snooping around customers’ computers looking for a crime."
"This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn't confined to Minnesota."
"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."
"This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants."
"The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide."
"Authorities believe that the assaults had been going on for months and perhaps years; the girl’s mother was allegedly blackmailed by the deputy to 'place her in fear' so she would not report the assaults."
"There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home."
"From the federal Department of Homeland Security down to local police departments, governmental use of biometric facial recognition software has gained a startling amount of traction in recent years. And these agencies are getting help from big business, to boot."