If Snowden Returned To US For Trial, All Whistleblower Evidence Would Likely...
There seems to be a new talking point from government officials since a federal judge ruled NSA surveillance is likely unconstitutional last week: if Edward Snowden thinks he's a whistleblower, he...
View ArticleShould Rap Lyrics Be Admissable Evidence?
Other than when it's on television or in a movie, the legal system is a place where rules are supposed to be followed so that justice might be done. Legal dramas where attorneys get creative with how...
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Parallel Construction Revealed: How The DEA Is Trained To Launder Classified...
Last summer, Reuters revealed how the NSA and other surveillance organizations would share info with the DEA and other law enforcement agencies, but then tell them to reconstruct the evidence via a...
View ArticleNew 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 ArticleEFF Tells Court That The NSA Knowingly And Illegally Destroyed Evidence In...
We followed the back and forth situation earlier this year, in which there were some legal questions over whether or not the NSA needed to hang onto surveillance data at issue in various lawsuits, or...
View ArticleDOJ Admits It's Still Destroying Evidence In NSA Case; Judge Orders Them...
So, remember how we wrote about the big EFF filing in the Jewel v. NSA case, about how the NSA and DOJ had been knowingly destroying key evidence by pretending that they thought the preservation...
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USTR's Special 301 List Of 'Naughty' Countries Without Strong Enough Patent...
We've talked plenty of times about what a complete joke the USTR's Special 301 report is. It's supposedly a "listing" of "naughty" countries who don't protect intellectual property enough for the US's...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Request That Secret NSA Evidence Used Against Terrorism Suspect...
We've been following the case of Adel Daoud, an American citizen charged with terrorism. He's one of the many, many folks that was arrested following one of the FBI's infamous home grown plots (i.e....
View ArticleIRS Now Says It Has Lost Emails From Six More Accounts Tied To The...
The IRS recently blamed a "computer crash" for the disappearance of two years of email correspondence involving Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the controversy surrounding the agency's...
View ArticleFiles About UK's Role In CIA Renditions 'Accidentally' Destroyed
Remember how the tapes of the CIA's torture campaign were "destroyed" under suspicious circumstances, despite orders not to destroy them? It appears something similar has happened in the UK, where...
View ArticleNJ Supreme Court Says Rap Lyrics Can't Be Introduced As Evidence Unless...
The ACLU (which submitted an amicus brief in this case) breaks the news that the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that someone's artistic speech can't be introduced as evidence of criminal intent --...
View ArticleMurder Case Prosecutors Claim 'National Security' To Stop Questions About FBI...
A Google Map search is seemingly the only piece of evidence tying former Cisco engineer Brad Cooper to the the murder of his wife, Nancy. According to his testimony, Cooper was at home with the...
View ArticleRoca Labs Threatens To Sue All Three Former Customers Who Provided Evidence...
The Roca Labs story keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Each time you think the company couldn't act in a way that seems even more sleazy and questionable, it raises the bar. If you don't recall,...
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