“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 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
“Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/27/do-immigrants-have-the-right-to-pursue-happiness/
“While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them.”
“Is it a sign of progress that the news media no longer automatically cheers heavy-handed crackdowns by federal agents?”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/time-media-cheered-gestapo-immigration-tactics
“Rhodes has been described as being so trusted and close to Obama that he was ‘in the room’ for almost every foreign policy decision of significance that Obama made during his eight years in office.”
“Republicans are back on their feet, cheering the very Big Government they despised a generation ago.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/do-you-live-next-to-one-of-these-spy-hubs/
“The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509444/dark-web-drug-market-money-laundering-hsi-dark-gold
“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/
“Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians.”
Read more: https://notesonliberty.com/2018/06/19/separation-of-children-an-american-tradition/
