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Article • July 1, 2025 • from CLN July, 2025
How Police Departments Hire Bad Cops: The Shadow System Protecting ‘Wandering Officers’ by Clarence Walker, James Mills The police badge should be a shield for the public, not a cloak for predators. Yet across America, a dangerous undercurrent flows beneath the thin blue line: officers fired for brutality, lies, theft, …
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die by Nisha Whitehead, John W. Whitehead “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” —Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So …
Reform-Minded Prosecutors Face Backlash for Prosecuting Bad Cops by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford   In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement spurred by the police-involved killing of George Floyd, citizens across the country elected reform-minded prosecutors who ran on platforms promising accountability for police who break the …
FBI’s Bias for Keywords by Carlo Difundo by Carlos Difundo In September of 2021, then-Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Jill Sanborn told the Senate that the FBI did not monitor publicly available social media conversations. “It’s not within our authorities,” she told them, adding that the First Amendment barred them from …
FBI Searches of NSA Data Extended Until April, Despite Admission of Unconstitutionality by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso As part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024, signed by President Biden on December 22, 2023, Congress has extended the deadline to April 19th to fully re-authorize, …
Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
Suspicion of Government Surveillance Increasing by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The concern among Republicans and right-leaning independent voters that federal law enforcement agencies—particularly the FBI—are becoming politicized is driving an increase in the distrust these Americans have that these agencies will abuse access to personal data. Traditional conservative …
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
DOJ Spending Over $6 Billion in Firms to Seize Innocent Citizens’ Property Via Civil Asset Forfeiture by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a September 2023 report from foxnews.com, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) is “shelling out more than $6 billion to private companies to manage its asset …
Article • September 1, 2023 • from CLN September, 2023
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Casts Nearly 30,000 DUI Convictions in Doubt Due to ‘Egregious Government Misconduct’ by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi The Supreme Judicial Court of ­Massachusetts upheld a ruling concluding that between 2011 and 2019, breathalyzers used by the government were improperly calibrated and maintained. Commonwealth v. Hallinan, …
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Rejects Federal Central Bank Digital Currency, Signs Groundbreaking Bill Safeguarding Personal Finances from Government Control and Surveillance by Miles Dyson by Miles Dyson In a historic, first-of-its kind law in the nation, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed into law on May 12, 2023, a landmark …
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Massachusetts Remains a Civil Forfeiture Outlier by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins  The five-plus decade battlefield of America’s war on drugs and crime is littered with dishonesty, abuse, and failure, which goes far to explain why 50 years of social war has achieved nothing beyond the growth of a massive …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Forces by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Fourth Circuit Rules Government Breached Plea Agreement When It Failed to Honor Its Drug Conduct Stipulation at Sentencing by Chad Marks by Chad Marks The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Government breached its plea agreement with the defendant by failing to honor its drug …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
U.S. Government Lab Withheld Groundbreaking Study for 5 Years That Can Help Defendants Question the Reliability of Certain DNA Evidence by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A study that called into question the reliability of DNA as a piece of smoking-gun evidence due to its propensity to be easily transferred …
Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
U.S. Government Paid Out Over $60 Million to Settle Border Patrol Violence Claims by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A report from The Guardian reveals that the United States government paid out more than $60 million over a 12-year period to settle claims of violence by Customs and Border Patrol …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Massachusetts Supreme Court Tosses Thousands of Drug Cases After Lab Tech Scandal and Government Cover-Up by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reached a decision in the Amherst lab scandal, where disgraced lab technician Sonja Farak tampered with and stole drugs from thousands of drug …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Pennsylvania State Senator Sends the Cops to Collect on Overdue Trash Bills Owed to His Company by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis If you live in south-central Pennsylvania and your trash is picked up by Penn Waste, a company owned by Republican State Senator Scott Wagner, you might want to …
Article • September 23, 2018 • from CLN October, 2018
Many Sheriffs Tempted by Lack of Oversight or Fiscal Accountability by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It is a perfect storm of temptation. Many sheriffs in America have little oversight, independent sources of revenue with little fiscal accountability, low salaries, and a lot of power. This leads some of them …
Eric Schneiderman Pushed Laws Opposing Abuse of Women as He Stands Accused of Abusing Them Himself by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Eric Schneiderman, who resigned as New York’s Attorney General May 8, had a record of supporting legislation and criminal law enforcement to protect women from sexual abuse. However, …
Publication • 2018
A Report of Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, U.S. Department of Justice, 2018 Table of Contents I. Introduction and Summary of Findings.................................................... 1 II. Relevant Statutes, Policies, and Practices ................................................ 3 III. A. Lack of Candor ........................................................................... 3 B. FBI Policies and Practices …
New Report: 60 Percent of Exonerations Stem from Official Misconduct by Steve Horn by Steve Horn The newly released 2017 edition of the National Registry of Exonerations report delivers big findings about the work done by conviction integrity units (“CIUs”), innocence projects, and what some legal experts refer to as …
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