Restore the Fourth
The New York Times reports that the Biden administration is asking a secret court to reapprove its mass surveillance powers for a full year, rather than accepting key statutory reforms that would meaningfully limit its ability to spy on Americans without a warrant. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), a leading reformer, fired back: “A broad bipartisan, […]
One of George Washington’s favorite Biblical quotations was from the prophet Micah: Washington envisioned a country where people – at least, people like him – felt safe from the oppression of their government. The country he helped to found, incorporated into its First Amendment exceptionally strong protections for the exercise of religion, and forbade government […]