Washington Examiner: Every Pentagon wish is granted in Trump’s defense budget request
The Federalist: Why it’s a big problem if the FISA court relied on Steele’s hearsay to grant surveillance order
Alternet: Trump’s budget doubles down on the Drug War
National Review: Duke professor: “Libertarians seem to be on the autism spectrum.”Ed: Bahaha. It does sound as though she is actually implying that Public Choice Theorist, and academic god among insects, James Buchanan, is on the autism spectrum. Nothing more than a middle-school slur from someone with no actual arguments. “Oh those people I don’t like? They’re just retarded.”
New York Times: Are spies like us? A national security reporter says yes, and no
ACLU: A California city fights off ICE’s digital deportation machine
The Intercept: Republican scaremongering on “Sanctuary Cities” backfires, Democrats win big upset in Florida special election
Valley News: Facebook loses Germany court battle over privacy settings
The Week: Is America the main obstacle to peace in Korea?
Techdirt: More than 4,000 government websites infected with covert cryptocurrency miner
Business Insider: US intelligence officials say they wouldn’t use a Chinese-made phone for fear of spying. Ed: They speak from the experience of what they themselves do. Safe to assume US-made phones are little more than our own personal self-surveillance devices.
National Interest: The Deep State is very real
Forbes: Try exercising this Constitutional right and you’re apt to regret it
The Guardian: Social media spying is turning us into a stalking society