Tapping the New -- Civil Liberties -- June 27 The FBI Uses Drones for Surveillance on U.S. SoilThis is just the beginning of domestic drone use by US enforcement agencies"FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis.""The article goes on to say that...

Tapping the News -- Civil Liberties -- June 26NSA Removes Dishonest “Factsheet” from Website Yesterday, two Congressmen called the NSA out for publishing misleading and false data about the NSA programs on their website. The government continues to try to distract and confuse the American people about the tracking of US metadata. The NSA took down the sheet to address inaccuracies.

Tapping the News -- Civil Liberties June 25New Proposal to Place Checks on NSA

Lovers of freedom know that a limited government is the only way to achieve it. Limiting our government in the modern age means also limiting how it uses our personal data.  If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone. The only way to be sure data is not used improperly is not to allow them to collect it.

There is much confusion about the NSA’s secret surveillance program Prism. It doesn’t record the content of all of our private phone and other digital communications. Rather, it stores so-called “metadata” about them for future reference, in perpetuity. By its own admission, the federal government is collecting massive amounts of ‘metadata’ on every single American. 

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A recent Siena poll demonstrates that a clear majority of New York residents think their state Assembly leader, Sheldon Silver, should resign.

At a congressional hearing in March, Senator Ron Wyden asked the question that a leaked FISC order answered weeks ago. “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” “No sir,” replied James Clapper, the NSA’s Director of National Intelligence. “Not wittingly.”

Beginning in 2010, several different IRS offices – including those in Cincinnati, Ohio; El Monte, California; Laguna Niguel, California; and Washington D.C. systematically discriminated against conservative groups. The targeting was not the work of a few “rogue” agents, as IRS commissioner Steven Miller initially claimed.

On today’s FreedomCast, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, CJ Ciaramella joins me to discuss the latest on the NSA Prism program, the underreported EPA scandals and how you have privacy protection if you’re Lisa Jackson, but not an innocent farmer.  Related Links: