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Tue, May 25th 2021 10:45am — Tim Cushing Jason Miller was understandably disturbed when the now-defunct Splinter (owned by Gizmodo) wrote about allegations made by another Trump campaign staffer, A.J. Delgado. These allegations were made public during unrelated court proceedings. And theyre pretty disturbing. On Friday, September 14, 2018, Ms. Delgado filed a supplement to an earlier motion for the court to consider a psychological evaluation of Mr. Miller. Essentially, the supplement stated ...

Mon, May 24th 2021 9:31am — Tim Cushing Following the passage of a law that finally made lots of documentation related to police misconduct publicly accessible in California, the requests for information began pouring in. Some law enforcement agencies complied. Others sued. The state Attorney General showed the public how much they mattered by siding with the secretive agencies. The entity behind the standards for law enforcement training in the state -- Police Officers Standards and Training...

Earlier this month, it was revealed the DOJ -- while headed by Bill Barr and an extraordinarily leaky White House -- decided it would be...

also making use of location data purchased from data brokers, joining a host of other federal agencies that seemed to feel buying from brokers was an acceptable alternative to respecting the Fourth Amendment. Of particular interest to the Defense Department was location data generated by apps popular with the worlds Muslims, including the Muslim Pro prayer app and Muslim Mingle, a Muslim-centric Tinder. The DoD didnt have much to say in its… um… defense at that time, obviously preferring ev...

Lawyers for a cop accused of beating an undercover cop during a 2017 protest are pretty angry prosecutors have let the public know just...

Wed, May 19th 2021 9:36am — Tim Cushing Earlier this month, Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby decided to do something she definitely shouldnt have. Mosby may claim to be part of the "progressive prosecutor" movement, but her decision to ask the federal government to investigate a prominent critic of hers is pretty goddamn regressive. Mosby doesnt care for the allegedly slanted coverage shes receiving from WBFF, a local Fox affiliate. Rather than accept the fact that criticism -- even when it...

Tue, May 18th 2021 10:45am — Tim Cushing The best defense is a good offense. The FBIs decade-long streak of allowing informants to commit thousands of crimes a year continues, as Dell Cameron reports for Gizmodo. Informants working for the FBI committed more than 9,600 crimes under the bureau’s supervision during President Trump’s first two years in office, according to unclassified government reports. The so-called “Otherwise Illegal Activity” reports, obtained first by Gizmodo, deta...

Facebook recently announced its decision to keep Donald Trump banned -- a decision supported by its new oversight board. That decision...

For the past couple of years, Devin Nunes has been suing Twitter users over obviously satirical accounts that use his name, the most...

Fri, May 14th 2021 10:43am — Tim Cushing Reform efforts following the Snowden leaks led to some minor improvements at the FISA Court. The USA Freedom Act gave the court permission to allow someone to present the side of the surveilled from time to time and introduced some reporting requirements that allowed Americans to see just a bit more about how their surveillance tax dollars were spent. But if anything is going to change the way Americas surveillance agencies perform their duties, its go...