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NYPD detective Joseph Franco developed a late career habit of letting perps walk. Very late career. He was fired. But not before wreaking enough havoc, prosecutors were forced to toss nearly 100 convictions. Franco spent two decades working for the NYPD. How much of that was honest work is unknown. He was charged with perjury…

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Maybe the problem isn't the stacks of classified documents sitting around the houses of presidents, vice presidents, and other administration officials. Maybe the problem is the system that declares all these pieces of paper too secretive to be handled carelessly or hoarded impertinently. That's the thrust of David Dayen's excellent piece for The American Prospect,…

In tonight's State of the Union, President Biden is expected to once again float tax increases to reduce the deficit. Speaker McCarthy on Monday insisted on cutting spending to balance the budget

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It's been clear since the takeover, that Elon's running Twitter entirely based on his fleeting and oft-changing whims. The weird decision last week to suddenly, with one week's notice, remove the free tier for Twitter's basic API, has create a bit of an uproar, as tons of tools, services, and useful bots made use of…

Posts about misuse of official information written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

In 2018, Laredo (TX) police officers arrested independent journalist Priscilla Villarreal after she published the name of a Border Patrol agent who had committed suicide. The alleged crime was "misuse of official information." But all Villarreal had done was perform an act of journalism: she had asked Laredo police officer Barbara Goodman to verify information…