rule of law

The law must apply to everyone or else it becomes a political weapon.  Political elites, including James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress, yet they have been rewarded instead of punished.

Julie Swetnick, in a TV interview, walked back some of her claims she previously made under oath.  She faces charges of providing false statements to Congress and obstruction. Grassley said that ignoring this behavior will just invite more of it in the future.

[Prefatory Note: The interview below conducted by my friend, journalist and author C.J. Polychroniou was initially published in the Global Policy Journal, on 11 September 2018, the 17thanniversary of the World Trade Center attacks and the 45thanniversary of the Pinochet coup in Chile that assassinated the elected president of the country Salvador Allende.

Want to see a politician clearly? Remove emotional words from their statements. "If human rights laws get in the way, we will change them." https://t.co/Ci9yt7I9d6 — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) August 5, 2017 I’m clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British […]

It seems as though a Baltimore police officer forgot about one key feature of his bodycam: the fact that it saves the previous 30 seconds of video recorded before the camera is activated. Most bodycams record and dump constantly. The moment it’s activated, the 30 seconds preceding the activation become part of the recording. What […]

The Swedish leak where classified data and networks were outsourced outside the European Union was not an isolated incident, but a pervasive pattern where things are kept safe mostly by good luck and the occasional person who knows their stuff fixing things properly out of pure subordination.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg today ruled in favour
of the German civil liberties activist and pirate party member Patrick
Breyer (Commission vs. Breyer, C-213/15 P): It ordered the Commission
to give the press and the public access to the pleadings exchanged in
completed court proceedings. In the present case Breyer successfully
demanded the Commission disclose Austrian pleadings concerning the
non-transposition of the controversial EU Data Retention Directive.

A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists.

NYT: Spyware Sold to Mexican Government Targeted International Officials »

This is quite interesting. Who is to be considered being a terrorist? This is an especially important question, considering all new and far-reaching anti-terror laws.
Tim Pool @ Youtube: ANTIFA listed under domestic terrorism »

I just read an interesting piece at Bloomberg: The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections »
It’s about the German Chaos Computer Club – CCC – and its fight for a free, open democratic society with a free flow of information. At the end, member Jan Krissler is quoted saying…
»All the stuff will happen in the end.«