Commentary

During FBI Director James Comey's hearing before the House Intelligence Committee last Wednesday, he and Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) threatened to topple one of the longstanding pillars of journalistic freedom.

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) suspended its participation in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force last month. It was the culmination of a seven-year effort by community groups to hold the SFPD to the city’s legally codified standards of transparency and accountability.

When Acting Attorney General refused to defend an executive order, she was taking in to account the evidence given prior to the order that the Trump campaign intended to clamp down specifically on Muslim immigration to the United States.