A federal judge ruled in favor of the National Security Agency in a key surveillance case on Tuesday, dismissing a challenge which claimed the government’s spying operations were groundless and unconstitutional. Filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, aimed to end the agency’s warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, which…
“The public has to know about it. They don’t want the public to know about it.” That’s what Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) told the Huffington Post on Thursday night regarding continued White House stalling over release of a report that catalogs the internal investigation of CIA torture during the Bush years. The comments followed a…
Governor Mike Pence’s decision to reject an $80 million federal grant for pre-K education has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Pence announced last week that Indiana would pull out of a competitive grant process that could have awarded the state tens of millions of dollars to fund a desperately under-funded early childhood education…
Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN) offered tough words to Russia in an interview with a local TV station. The senator spoke to Tom Powell about the conflict in Ukraine and the recent attack on a civilian jetliner. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last Thursday in the rebel-controlled eastern half of Ukraine, killing all 295…
