It's early 2018 and Donald Trump's approval ratings are circling the drain. After backtracking on almost all of his campaign promises and devastating the middle and working classes in record time, people are angrier than ever. The press, smelling blood in the water, has started ...read more

The hysteria over the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata climaxed this weekend with a last-ditch effort to extend provisions of the Patriot Act that expired at midnight on Sunday. That effort was primarily, and vocally, blocked by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who correctly ...read more

With the Patriot Act set to expire on June 1, and the bill that aims to replace and reform it facing razor-thin opposition in the Senate, the White House is ratcheting up the pressure on Republicans to pass the USA Freedom Act. On Thursday morning, White House Press Secretary ...read more

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the very provision of the law that we now know the government is using to vacuum up phone records of American citizens on a massive scale. ...read more

(UPDATE below.) It turns out, the NSA PRISM story isn't quite the bombshell that everyone said it was. Yes, there continues to be a serious cause for concern when it comes to government spying and overreach with its counter-terrorism efforts. But the reporting from Glenn ...read more

The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From The AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuable intelligence on terrorism, a Senate ...read more