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by | May 9, 2021

By now we’ve all seen the CIA’s woke recruitment video, which appears to be a comedy starring Hillary Clinton and directed by Mel Brooks. Too few, however, have paid attention to the Postal Service’s entry into the intelligence field and…

by | Mar 2, 2020

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has a brief and controversial history. It was enacted in 1978 to provide secret judicial review of government intelligence surveillance of foreign agents in the United States. Since then — the government tells us…

by | Jan 20, 2020

In what the Justice Department has labeled a terrorist attack, on December 6 Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed al-Shamrani shot and killed three U.S. Navy sailors. That attack led to the serious vetting of all Saudi military members being trained…

by | Dec 27, 2019

Rosemary Collyer is the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the “FISC”). FISC is the judicial body that issues surveillance warrants to our intelligence agencies, principally the FBI, authorizing the interception of electronic communications of people located in…

by | Dec 12, 2019

Inexplicable. THIS is the only 25 seconds you need to see. It’s “INEXPLICABLE.” pic.twitter.com/YE2wUaiCKU — thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) December 11, 2019 Inspector General Michael Horowitz appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to talk about the report he released last Friday. Horowitz…

by | Jun 25, 2019

The House recently voted against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702, proposed by Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and  Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.). FISA Section 702, which was authorized as an addition to the 1978 FISA Act…

by | Jul 23, 2018

Consider the source. The FBI did not allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to do just that. Instead, the heavily-redacted application for a warrant to surveil U.S. citizen Carter Page obscures the source. It never says, at least in the…

by | Apr 27, 2018

In a unanimous voice vote Tuesday, the Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to head the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command. While not much is known about Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone’s stance on some of the NSA’s…

by | Feb 26, 2018

The minority report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) gets bogged down on minor matters that undermine its credibility on the major issues addressed. The memo, for instance, paints Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official demoted after…

by | Feb 5, 2018

On Friday the FBI lost the first big battle in its war to conceal its actions during the 2016 presidential campaign when the White House declassified and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (“HPSCI”) released its four-page memorandum detailing…

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