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Phone Metadata: Constitution Vests Authority To Collect Foreign Intelligence Information Directly In The President

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June 3, 2015

From HSToday: On May 7, in ACLU v. Clapper, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone metadata collection program—involving the court-ordered collection of vast amounts of telephone bill information for subsequent computer searches to identify phone numbers that communicate with phones associated with foreign terrorists—was not authorized […]

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Somalis in S.D. Not Alarmed by Terror Recruiting Risks

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June 2, 2015

From USA Today: Said Yusuf stands near the front counter of his grocery store here and nods his head. Yes, yes, he’s heard about the steady exodus of young Somali Muslim men and women out of the Twin Cities to join Islamic terrorist groups overseas. Yes, he knows that federal officials suspect Minneapolis and St. […]

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Cool Mitch McConnell Gets Passionate — and Pays

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May 28, 2015

From Politico: Mitch McConnell rarely goes out on a limb on issues that divide Senate Republicans. He’s more prone to sit back and listen, let his conference work out their differences — and only then assert his own views. But the majority leader ditched that dispassionate approach when it came time to renew the country’s […]

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IRS Believes Massive Data Theft Originated in Russia

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May 28, 2015

From CNN: The IRS believes that a major cyber breach that allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more than 100,000 people originated in Russia, two sources briefed on the data theft tell CNN. On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service announced that organized crime syndicates used personal data obtained elsewhere to access tax information, […]

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Fewer Imigrants are Entering the U.S. Illegally

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May 28, 2015

From The Washington Post: As the Department of Homeland Security continues to pour money into border security, evidence is emerging that illegal immigration flows have fallen to their lowest level in at least two decades. The nation’s population of illegal immigrants, which more than tripled, to 12.2 million, between 1990 and 2007, has dropped by […]

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House Dems Press DHS to End Family Detention

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May 22, 2015

From The Hill: House Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end its illegal immigrant family detention program. In 2014, the DHS started holding immigrant families in prison-like detention facilities amid an influx of 60,000 families arriving at the Mexican border. On Thursday, lawmakers, led by Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), […]

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ISIS Praises Texas Jihadists In New Issue Of Dabiq, The Jihadi Group’s Official Magazine

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May 22, 2015

From HSToday: Not surprisingly, the ninth issue of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) digital English-language magazine, Dabiq, heaped praise on Nadir Soofi and Elton Simpson – the two radicalized Muslims and Phoenix, Arizona roommates killed in a May 3 firefight in Garland, Texas for their attempt to storm into the Curtis Culwell Civic Center in Garland, […]

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What Happens if the PATRIOT Act Expires?

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May 22, 2015

From Politico: With the Senate stuck over whether and how to reform the PATRIOT Act before parts of it expire within days, officials across Washington are starting to contemplate a future in which lawmakers don’t act — and key surveillance provisions simply die. If Congress doesn’t renew the law — which expires on May 31, […]

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A Success Against the Islamic State, in Perspective

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May 18, 2015

From The National Review: Friday was a good day for the world and a bad day for the Islamic State (IS). In a typically meticulous operation, Delta Force operators were flown into eastern Syria and then stormed an IS compound. Meeting resistance, they killed around 20 IS fighters including IS officer Abu Sayyaf. Capturing Sayyaf’s […]

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The Senate Is About to Decide the Future of NSA Spying

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May 18, 2015

From The National Journal: Will Mitch McConnell be moved? That’s the question the Senate is asking itself as it enters its last legislative week before key provisions that authorize some of the government’s sweeping domestic surveillance powers are due to lapse at the end of the month. And if Sunday is any indication, the answer […]

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