“At St. Paul’s Church, detainees’ family members are seeking answers on what they can do next.”
“The FBI trained Geek Squad employees to go snooping around customers’ computers looking for a crime.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/fbi-uses-geek-squad-for-illegal-spying/
“This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn’t confined to Minnesota.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/18/cps-mom-baby-cops-kidnapping
“Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It’s demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let’s kill the FBI while we can.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/after-the-ig-report-lets-kill-the-fbi-wh/print
“‘Many kids are having nightmares, can’t eat, can’t sleep … don’t know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear … the memory never goes away.'”
“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”
Read more: https://people.com/human-interest/border-patrol-agent-jokes-migrant-children-separated-parents/
“Authorities believe that the assaults had been going on for months and perhaps years; the girl’s mother was allegedly blackmailed by the deputy to ‘place her in fear’ so she would not report the assaults.”
“There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home.”
“From the federal Department of Homeland Security down to local police departments, governmental use of biometric facial recognition software has gained a startling amount of traction in recent years. And these agencies are getting help from big business, to boot.”
Read more: https://theweek.com/articles/779196/governments-creepy-obsession-face
“Few commentators are recognizing the vast peril to democracy posed by the sweeping prerogatives of federal agencies.”