Feds' bioterror detection system can't be trusted, watchdog warns
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can't trust its system for detecting biological attacks on the country, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned in a report on Monday.According to...
View ArticlePrivacy watchdog: Don’t use Paris attacks to expand surveillance
This month’s terror attacks in Paris should not be used as an excuse to expand government federal surveillance powers, the head of a small privacy watchdog agency says.The head of the Privacy and Civil...
View ArticleAbortion groups: Investigate Planned Parenthood shooting as domestic terrorism
Abortion rights groups are calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate last week’s attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., as an act of domestic terrorism.NARAL...
View ArticleTexas sues feds to keep refugees out
Texas on Wednesday sued the Obama administration and an organization that resettles refugees over plans to bring six Syrian refugees to the state later this week.In a filing, the Texas Health and Human...
View ArticleTexas backs off refugee lawsuit, allowing two families to enter
Texas on Friday slightly backed off of its efforts to immediately block a family of Syrian refugees from resettling from within its borders, allowing a small number of migrants to enter.The state’s...
View ArticleKansas officials to Obama: Don't close Guantanamo
Lawmakers and other elected officials from Kansas are calling on President Obama to consider the concerns of state residents before issuing any executive action to close Guantanamo Bay and transfer...
View ArticleCourt won’t reconsider ruling upholding NSA spying
A federal appeals court on Friday declined to take up a lower court’s decision upholding National Security Agency surveillance, in a blow to privacy advocates who have called the agency’s data...
View ArticleObama won’t nominate replacement heads for ATF, US Marshals
The interim leaders of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will stay in their posts through the end of the Obama administration next year, the...
View ArticleJudiciary chair alarmed by visa changes
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee is raising concerns with the Obama administration’s efforts to change the rules for interviewing foreigners seeking a visa to enter the United States.The...
View ArticleFeds roll out changes to visa program aimed at stopping terrorists
The Obama administration on Thursday implemented changes to an easy-entry program for foreign tourists designed to block radical extremists from entering the country.The changes require that people who...
View ArticleCourt overturns order keeping 'Fast and Furious' documents secret
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that kept a lid on a handful of documents related to a lawsuit from Congress over the Obama administration’s botched “Fast and Furious”...
View ArticleCongress appalled by fed's hundreds of missing guns
The federal government received a bipartisan bashing Wednesday for losing track of hundreds of guns and grenade launchers that were donated to police departments.The General Services Administration...
View ArticleHouse effort would put Congress in charge of refugees
A new effort in the House would put Congress — not the executive branch — in charge of making determinations about refugees brought into the United States.Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the head of the...
View ArticleWatchdog: Visa oversights poking holes in US border
Bureaucratic problems and technological flaws are poking holes in U.S. border security and have allowed “known human traffickers” to legally enter the country with their victims, a federal watchdog...
View ArticleLawmakers warn of 'radical' move by NSA to share information
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is expressing alarm at reported changes at the National Security Agency that would allow the intelligence service’s information to be used for policing efforts in the...
View ArticleFeds arrest 1,100 in assault on cross-border gangs
Federal officials arrested more than 1,100 people in the course of a five-week operation, which concluded earlier this month, targeting members of international gangs suspected to be involved with drug...
View ArticlePrivacy watchdog chairman resigns two years before end of term
The first-ever head of a small federal privacy watchdog is resigning this summer, a year and a half before his term ends in 2018.The surprise announcement from David Medine, chairman of the Privacy and...
View ArticleSpy office denies allegations that NSA data will be used for policing
A top lawyer for the nation’s intelligence agencies is pushing back on mounting criticism about new plans to widely share intercepted data throughout the federal government.Robert Litt, the general...
View ArticleCIA withdraws plan to destroy emails
The CIA has formally withdrawn a controversial proposal to destroy the emails of all but 22 top-level officials after an employee leaves office.A representative for the National Archives confirmed to...
View ArticleUS designates surviving Paris attacker as ‘global terrorist’
The Obama administration on Tuesday designated the sole surviving suspect of last November’s deadly terror attacks in Paris as a "global terrorist," imposing sanctions to freeze any assets in U.S....
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