After nominating a Muslim-American attorney to sit on the New Jersey Superior Court, Gov. Chris Christie called out the "crazies" who demonized the pick.
The FBI's new rules governing domestic investigative activity are a significant and troubling expansion of power, approved not by Congress or the Attorney General, but apparently by the Bureau itself.
As House Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King (R-N.Y.) is set to hold his next hearing on the "radicalization" of American Muslims — this time focusing on prisons — it is instructive to see what his last two hearings accomplished.
The Obama administration is requiring Guantánamo detainees’ lawyers to treat the documents setting forth the government’s erstwhile assessment of the detainees as they would treat any other classified documents – even though the documents were recently made public by virtue of an unauthorized disclosure to WikiLeaks.
On March 18th, the Brennan Center held a day-long symposium, Intelligence Collection and Law Enforcement: New Roles, New Challenges. Click for video, photos and a media round up of the event.
A recent EFF study found hundreds of FBI violations over the last decade. It is time for the Bureau to recognize its own tendency for excessive zeal in intelligence collecting and to undertake a serious effort to reform its practices.
Rep. Peter King’s hearing to examine “radicalization” of American Muslims created a media circus. After releaseing a report this week on theories of radicalization, the Brennan Center's Faiza Patel offered her expertise to media outlets across the country.
