A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in South Florida has been sentenced to 70 months in prison on a federal child pornography charge. Anthony Mangione faced a minimum of five years in prison after pleading guilty in July to using his home computer to receive and transmit images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. 
 Mangione ran ICE's South Florida operations from 2007 ...

Police drones circling overhead, ready to help search for lost children, rescue stranded boaters and capture criminals. Or drones equipped with lethal weapons, high-tech cameras able to see through clothing, and technology that monitors a person's visit to religious or political events. Those were divergent and tricky scenarios discussed at a congressional hearing on Thursday, as lawmakers contemplated a ma ...

It has been said that the key to politics is persistence. In the fight against one of the most draconian laws in history, that persistence has definitely paid off. The National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) typically funds our national defense, including the military. It has been passed by Congress and signed by the President for 48 years now. While most previous versions have had little to no effect on A ...

One agency in the US has the power to invade and investigate the White House: the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Its extraordinary powers make it the closest thing the country has to a secret police. With the intelligence at its command, the FBI can make presidents, and break them. Information is power; secret information is power squared. And eyes-only intelligence secured for the president – or against ...

Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerad ...

As Congress continues to debate the imposition of new sanctions on Russia for human rights abuses, the Russian Foreign Ministry has fired back today that the US is holding themselves to a different standard, committing many of the same violations they lash other nations for. The statement in particular notedthat the Obama Administration has still failed to close the extra-judicial detention center at Guanta ...

John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, is calling on the legislatures of all fifty states to protect the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens from police use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. In the wake of the passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act, it is expected that at least 30,000 drones will occupy U.S. airspace by 2020. In alerting the state legisla ...

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Conservative author, pundit and filmmaker behind the documentary “2016: Obama’s America” has resigned from his post as president of King’s College — an evangelical Christian university in New York City after reportedly being embroiled in an extramarital affair. Christian publication WORLD reported that D’Souza had a young fiancee in addition to a wife of 20 years. WORLD reports that D’Souza brought his 29-y ...

Although prosecutors generally love convictions and the hard-nosed police work that goes into getting them, they are less enamored when that police work turns out to involve misconduct so severe that the tainted convictions have to be overturned, often en masse. Two lawsuits recently filed in the Chicago area—Illinois v. Plummer, Wade et al. and Harden, Taylor et al. v. Village of Dixmoor et al.— reveal pol ...