US denies it. Daily Beast

Amnesty USA.  

In reality, the drone threat is from our own government.  Activist Post

Pentagon is sending troops and war gear to the border of Russia, the first such deployment since the end of the Cold War.  The deployment is called the, “European Reassurance Initiative“, and is clearly meant to provoke Russia into a first strike.  So, around 4,200 troops are going to six countries: Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria, along with hundreds of tanks and other gear.  How would we feel if Russia lined the border between the US and Canada with Russian troops and Russian nukes?

Ars Technica.  Cops can no longer engage in non-disclosure agreements with the feds and use Stingray surveillance devices without a warrant and explanation to a judge, Maryland Court of Appeals rules.

Tech Dirt: “UK Law Enforcement Trying to Force Man They’ve Never Charged With a Crime To Decrypt His Computers For It”

Red Dirt Report and Forbes.  Heroic Kyle Loveless is being blackballed by Judiciary Committee chairman Anthony Sykes, who doesn’t want to make enemies with law enforcement before his big run for Attorney General in 2018.

Neoconservatives want a war so bad with the non-threat that is Russia.  What do Russians think of this baloney?  Lining the border of Russia with NATO nukes, soldiers, and every other weapon aimed at Moscow, it will be no surprise when some tiny incident is used as grounds for World War 3.  Foreign Policy

Using a very expensive device called a UFED Touch.  According to McAfee, the FBI was more interested in setting precedent than getting into that particular phone.  If it won against Apple, it would win against every other tech company in the world.  Forbes

NY Times.  “The government can seize, Justice Breyer wrote, “a robber’s loot, a drug seller’s cocaine, a burglar’s tools, or other property associated with the planning, implementing, or concealing of a crime.”

But it cannot, he said, freeze money or other assets unconnected to the crime.”