With the departure of Glenn Fine as Inspector General, senior officials at the FBI and DOJ, members of Congress, and the American people must take a more active role in demanding accountability and transparancy.

The Brennan Center recently hosted a panel discussion on Capitol Hill about the FBI’s expanded domestic intelligence authority. Moderating the discussion was NBC’s Michael Isikoff. On the panel was Rep. Rush Holt and the Center’s Emily Berman, who has written a report about the FBI’s enhanced role.

The government must actually obtain a conviction before imposing a punishment or seeking automatic deportation premised on that conviction. It is a shocking feature of U.S. immigration law that such an obvious-seeming point needed any clarification. . . .

Post-9/11, the government's process of classifying documents is too easy, and often unnecessary. Pointless secrets threaten our safety by blocking the flow of information within government.