“A mother and daughter were detained at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by U.S. Customs officers Sunday because they did not share the same last name, the mother alleges.”
“The stated purpose of the bill was ‘to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.'”
Read more: https://thepointsguy.com/news/irs-blocking-americans-from-getting-passports/
“According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act.”
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance.”
“The national-security establishment has become the most powerful part of the federal government, one to which the judicial branch (as well as the other two branches) inevitably defers in matters that are critically important to the Pentagon, the CIA, or the NSA.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/29/the-supreme-courts-deference-to-the-pentagon/
“The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days.”
“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
