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 act of Congress tha

"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 operated for over a dec

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 movement of boxes