Trump tells the leaders of NATO countries they are not spending enough on defense. 23 of the 28 countries in NATO do not meet the expectation to spend 2% of GDP on defense. [Link] A high school junior kills himself after he was threatened by police and school administration of being charged with possessing and sharing child pornography. The young man had an audio recording of a sexual encounter on his phone. The police never intended to charge the young man and the goal of the threat was to scare him straight. Hours after being threatened he jump off a building. [Link] The DEA lied about...
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News Roundup 3/10/17
The White House is using state secrets privilege to prevent the nominated CIA deputy director from testifying about her role in the US torture program during her Senate confirmation hearings. [Link] The federal government's sugar import quotas and tariffs on sugar cost American consumers over $3 billion every year. [Link] Five states have joined in a lawsuit against Trump's new travel ban. The states argue that the restraining order preventing enforcement of the first travel ban should also apply to the new one. Hawaii is also challenging the new travel ban in a separate lawsuit. [Link]...
How the FBI Became the World’s Largest Child Porn Distributor
Over a year ago, the FBI conducted an unprecedented hacking operation in which the agency deployed malware to more than one thousand accounts identified as visitors to a single dark web child pornography site. Using more than 8,000 IP addresses, the Bureau hacked computers in 120 different countries. In a federal court hearing on the case, defense attorney Colin Fieman observed that “We have never, in our nation’s history as far as I can tell, seen a warrant so utterly sweeping – 100,000 potential targets, something like 8700 IP addresses captured. At least 1152 open investigations – and...
News Roundup 11/23/16
Trump will not pursue charges against Hillary Clinton. Trump said in the second debate that he would have a special prosecutor look into Hillary. [Link] Trump is backing off of his promise to use torture. Trump had a conversation with General Mattis who convinced him the practice does not work. [Link] The Dow Jones closes above 19,000 for the first time in history. The S&P 500 also set an all-time high, closing above 2,200. [Link] A 21-year-old woman may lose her arm after an explosion. The woman was protesting the pipeline in North Dakota. Protesters claim the explosion was caused by...
News Roundup 11/12/16
Trump does not plan to "rip up" the Iran nuclear deal. [Link] Trump says he no longer plans to repeal Obamacare. Trump wants to keep the provision that prevents insurance companies from denying people with preexisting conditions and continue to force insurance companies to keep children on their parent's insurance plans until the age of 26. [Link] The FBI received a judge's permission to operate 23 child pornography websites. The FBI was previously exposed for operating a child pornography site for two weeks. [Link] At least four have been killed by a suicide bomber inside of a US base in...
Who Protects Kids from Predatory Police and Prosecutors?
Raising teenage girls in the age of Snapchat exhibitionism is a challenging proposition – and it’s not made any easier by ambitious prosecutors seeking to criminalize unwise acts that fall within parental jurisdiction. Last April 6, two parents from Knoxville, Iowa were summoned to a meeting with Lt. Aaron Fuller and Sgt. Kyle Keller of the city police department. A few days earlier, they had been informed by Carolyn Johnson, a guidance counselor at Knoxville High School, that their 14-year-old girl had sent “inappropriate” pictures to a male friend. When confronted by the parents, the...
Take the Fifth — And Face Life Imprisonment Without a Trial
Philadelphia resident Francis Rawls has been in solitary confinement for seven months, despite the fact that he has not been accused of a crime – let alone convicted of one. He may spend the rest of his life in that condition as punishment for invoking his unconditional right, supposedly protected by the Fifth Amendment, against self-incrimination. Apart from the seventeen years he spent as an officer with the Philadelphia Police Department, Rawls has never done anything to threaten the public. He has no criminal record. He is suspected of possessing child pornography, which would evince...
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