It’s really sick how some persons of authority can misuse public trust for personal gain, and how many of their colleagues help them hide it
Two young officers began to hear rumors of a drug gang operating within the Chicago Police Department. They were skeptical at first.
Source: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen
Reuters: Yahoo “complied with a classified US government directive.”
Presuming that the report is correct, it would represent essentially the digital equivalent of a general warrant—which is forbidden by the Fourth Amendment
Source: Yahoo’s CISO resigned in 2015 over secret e-mail search tool ordered by feds | Ars Technica
As part of its criminal case against Megaupload, the U.S. Government seized several domain names belonging to Kim Dotcom’s file-hosting service. Nearly five years later the authorities still control the domains but they haven’t done a very good job of securing them. Megaupload.org now links to a soft porn portal.
Source: FBI-Controlled Megaupload Domain Now Features Soft Porn – TorrentFreak
An undercover FBI agent egged on a would-be terrorist shortly before he opened fire on a Texas cartoon contest last year, raising new doubts about the bureau’s approach to cozying up to its targets.
Source: FBI Agent Goaded Garland Shooter to “Tear Up Texas,” Raising New Alarms About Bureau’s Methods
Lawsuit accuses DoJ of ‘failure by design’ through decades-old system and refusal to use new $425m software on freedom of information requests
Source: Justice department ‘uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests’ | Politics | The Guardian
This is the fox watching the henhouse. These are not restrictions, these are just the DOJ getting to ask itself if it really wants to spy on these journalists, and the DOJ telling itself “sure, go ahead.” There’s a further exception that if someone is a member of the media, but the FBI “suspects” they’re an intelligence officer or affiliated with a foreign intelligence service, “no additional approval requirements” are needed. So, as with the Rosen case, the FBI can just declare him a “co-conspirator” and voila, no approval necessary.
EFF and 44 Other Organizations Call for More Time to Respond
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Minneapolis office is conducting an active investigation of the principals of Prenda Law, the notorious team of crooked copyright trolls that I’ve …
Source: FBI Actively Investigating Prenda Law Team For Fraud | Popehat
After one woman broke his heart, a young Michigan man turned to another woman, who tried to steer him toward a violent response. Both women were FBI informants.
