New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted Evidence About Its Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom
I have to admit that I'm consistently amazed at just how badly law enforcement in both the US and New Zealand appeared to screw up the raid and the case against Kim Dotcom. I've said it a few times...
View ArticleNew Zealand Supreme Court Says DOJ Doesn't Have To Provide Its Evidence In...
Despite two earlier rulings that the US Justice Department needed to provide Kim Dotcom and others involved in Megaupload with the actual evidence being used against them for the extradition trial, an...
View ArticleJudge Walton Catches The DOJ Withholding Info About NSA Metadata Lawsuits
Another FISC opinion and order has just been released dealing with the NSA's retention of metadata that may be used as evidence in some ongoing lawsuits against the government. The DOJ had originally...
View ArticleDOJ Flips Out That Evidence Gathered Via FISA Orders Might Be Made Available...
Last summer, we wrote about the case of Adel Daoud, an American teenager who was caught in one of the FBI's home grown plots. Even before the whole Snowden situation broke, late in 2012 when the...
View ArticleDOJ Continues To Obstruct Efforts For Megaupload Users To Get Their Files Back
For a while we had followed the bizarre situation with Megaupload's servers. As you may recall, the Justice Department seized them all, following its criminal indictment against Megaupload and many of...
View ArticleIndiana Supreme Court Declares An Officer's Testimony Is More Reliable Than...
Seeing how often official reports by law enforcement are contradicted by video recordings, you'd think judges would have become a bit more skeptical about the supposed "superiority" of officers'...
View ArticleAustralia's Attorney General Ignores All Evidence And Experts: Decides To...
We kind of expected this to happen, but after a long process in which the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) carefully reviewed all sorts of proposals and evidence on copyright reform, and...
View ArticleDumb Criminal Posts Video Of Dumb Crime After Leaving Hospital Injured From...
It's been a couple of months, so maybe you thought that there were no more dumb criminals doing dumb things with technology any longer. Well, that was a very silly thought, silly-thought-thinker. You...
View ArticleCops And Union Rep Lie About What Video Shows Because Judge Never Allowed...
The video recording of St. Louis police officer Rory Bruce's unprovoked attack on a handcuffed suspect speaks for itself. Within the first 15 seconds of the video captured by the police van's camera,...
View ArticleSpeed Cam Contractor Responds To Challenged Tickets By Cropping Photos,...
While the discussion over whether red light and speed cameras are helping or hurting continues, there's no denying they're very profitable. In most communities, the beneficiaries of the additional...
View ArticleIRS Also Secretly Got Intelligence Info And Was Told To Launder It
Reuters continues to reveal incredible details of how the intelligence community (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.) has been sharing information with other government agencies -- mainly via the DEA's Special...
View ArticleComcast Confirms That Steele-Hansmeier Controlled IP Address Used To Seed...
We already covered the filing from Blair Chintella highlighting the audio evidence that John Steele had impersonated both Alan Cooper and Mark Lutz, but there was a second bit of evidence in there...
View ArticleCourt Says Feds Don't Have To Reveal Secret Evidence It Gathered Against...
Adel Daoud is an American teen who was arrested last year in one of the FBI's many infamous home grown plots, in which FBI agents entice people into claiming they want to take part in a terror plot,...
View ArticleDoes The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence
Last week we reported on the suspension of Hadopi's one and only suspension, as France moved away from using Internet disconnection as a punishment. That manifest failure of the scheme that pioneered...
View ArticleMPAA Evidence In IsoHunt Case Doesn't Show What It Claims
The MPAA's lawsuit against IsoHunt is still going on, and the latest shenanigans from the movie studios (yet again) raise significant questions about the (lack of) care with which they handle these...
View ArticleDallas Police Rule Change Gives Officers 72 Hours To Get Their Stories...
The Dallas Police Department can't seem to get its officers' statements on shootings to agree with recordings of the incidents. So, it's doing what any forward thinking law enforcement agency would do...
View ArticleDailyDirt: Charity 2.0
There seems to be an increasing number of discussions on how to end poverty using evidence-based methods. Obviously, no one has found the cure for poverty just yet, but applying some rigorous analysis...
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Police Who Seized Woman's Phone As 'Evidence' Of Bogus Crime Now Complaining...
Photography Is Not A Crime is in the middle of another police department vs. citizen feud and this one, like the last, is based on dubious "crimes" and a police department's disingenuous legal...
View ArticleJudge And Intelligence Task Force Both Seem Stunned By Lack Of Evidence That...
For months now, NSA defenders have argued repeatedly that the bulk metadata programs were necessary to stop terrorist attacks. For a while they were throwing around the claim of "54 thwarted terrorist...
View ArticleDOJ Releases Some Megaupload Evidence; Actually Shows Difficulty Of Running...
Following the reports of how the DOJ was sharing Megaupload evidence with private companies, the DOJ has now unsealed details of some of the evidence it has against Megaupload. Looking through the...
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