A sitting United States Senator just told you exactly what the SAVE America Act is really about — and he said it in public, on X, for everyone to see. "Republicans will lose power — likely for a long time — if we don't get SAVE America passed." Those are the words of Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), the bill's chief Senate sponsor, posted this week to his personal X account @BasedMikeLee . Not election security. Not protecting democracy. Power. Republican power. Preserved through an

"Any Lawful Purpose": How a Three-Word Phrase Could Open the Door to AI-Powered Mass Surveillance. "Lawful" Is Not the Same as "Right" History is littered with examples of government actions that were perfectly legal and deeply wrong. Japanese internment was legal. COINTELPRO — the FBI's systematic campaign to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt civil rights organizations — was conducted under existing legal authorities. The NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records ope

The Classified Documents Case—And Why It Matters The deposition also addressed Trump’s unlawful retention of classified national-security documents at Mar-a-Lago—conduct charged under the same statutes Trump and his allies have long claimed others should have been prosecuted for violating. Smith summarized the indictment’s allegations: Willful retention of national defense information Obstruction following a grand jury subpoena Concealment, including the mo