FBI, DOJ Postpone Hearing in San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI and Apple will not get their day in court. At least not yet. The hearing over whether Apple must weaken the safeguards around its own encryption at...
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Apple Engineers Could Refuse to Help FBI in San Bernardino Case
In the FBI vs. Apple battle over encryption, Apple's lawyers have said that the company will take this all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. The big...
FBI Harvests NSA Data Without Warrants; Promises to Make Secret Changes
All through 2014 and into 2015, the FBI was given direct access to all of the data the NSA was vacuuming up from the Internet, according to a report...
Obama Ignores Experts; Calls for Backdoors for Encryption
As the FBI and Apple wage battle over the rights of private citizens to protect their data and communications by using encryption, both the FBI and the White House...
FBI vs. Apple: More Than Meets The Eye
The FBI said it had no choice but to seek a court order to force Apple to create a backdoor into the iOS platform. But there are some facts...
Hillary’s Libyan Delusion: “We Didn’t Lose a Single Person”
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has said some pretty audacious things, but Monday night during an MSNBC town hall she told host Chris Matthews that “We didn't lose a single...
Clinton Refuses to Answer Question About Pending Indictment
Hillary Clinton seems to believe she is beyond the reach of both the law and logic. After recent reports that her private, unsecured server was found to have held...
McAfee: Gov’t Backdoors Are Destroying National Security
As the Apple/FBI case heats up, the surveillance hawks continue to insist that backdoors into the encryption that protects smartphones are necessary to address the threat of terrorists and...
Judge Napolitano: Grand Jury May Soon Indict Hillary
As Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal continues to haunt her and her candidacy, many have asked, “Will she ever be indicted?” The New American has asserted time and again that...
Apple, FBI Testify Before Congress About Encryption
Representatives of both Apple and the FBI appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Over a period of five and a half hours, the committee heard sworn testimony...
What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Case?
There is a lot at stake in the case of the FBI demanding that Apple create new software to enable the agency to circumvent the encryption on the iPhone...
Clinton’s Private Server Was Home to at Least 2,079 Classified E-Mails
Keeping track of Hillary Clinton's classified e-mails is more than a little like watching dandelions grow. The former secretary of state turned presidential candidate sent and/or received so many...
Chris Rock: Crying Racism and Casting Stones
While serving as master of ceremonies at this year's Academy Awards on Sunday, Chris Rock used his opening monologue to spend ten and a half minutes denouncing Hollywood as...
DiCaprio’s Oscar Speech: All About Climate Change
Leonardo DiCaprio has been acting since he was 14 years old. He has been nominated five times for an Oscar without winning. At Sunday's awards ceremony, he finally got...
“Spotlight” on Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal: Oscar for Best Picture
Spotlight received an Oscar for “best picture” at the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday Night. The film is a dramatization of the reporting by the Boston Globe on...