The FBI had to rewrite the book on its domestic surveillance activities in the wake of last January’s landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones. In Jones, a unanimous court held that federal agents must get a warrant to attach a GPS device to a car to track a suspect ...

Read more: What the FBI Doesn't Want You To Know About Its "Secret" Surveillance Techniques

The confirmation process for three key Administration positions is expected to begin in the next couple weeks, with Senator John Kerry (D–MA) nominated for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) nominated for Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief Counterterrorism Advisor John ...

Read more: Hagel, Kerry, and Brennan Senate Confirmation Hearings: Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom

Facing a final compliance deadline of yesterday, January 15, 2013, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last month issued a press releaseproviding a six-month grace period for states to become fully compliant with the federal driver's license law known as the REAL ID Act of 2005. DHS states ...

Read more: REAL ID Compliance and the Effect of Deferred Action

Right Side News reports from the Federation for American Immigration Reform on

•  Pro-Amnesty Think Tank Peddles Fraudulent View of Immigration Enforcement Spending
• Putting the New Judiciary Committees under the Microscope
• Illinois Issues Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens
• Chamber of ...

  Read more: Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security January 14, 2013

Statistics released today in the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Reportindicate that the number of violent crimes reported in the first six months of 2012 increased 1.9 percent when compared with figures from the first six months of 2011. The number of property crimes increased 1.5 ...

Read more: FBI Releases Preliminary Semiannual Crime Statistics for 2012

While Senator Feinstein's soon-to-be-introduced bill to ban semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazinesis garnering the most attention from anti-gun politicians and their media allies, attacks on our Second Amendment rights are by no means limited to this one proposal, nor to just ...

Read more: Feinstein Gun Ban Just Tip of Iceberg

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) describes itself as an “independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank … dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide,” whether their relocations are voluntary or forced, and whether they occur at the local, national, or international ...

Read more: Erasing America’s Southern Border, One Step at a Time

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hedges v. Obama, a case which challenges the indefinite detention of Americans by the armed forces under a provision of the National Defense ...

Read more: Rutherford Institute Challenges NDAA's Indefinite Detention Provision, Calls on Second Circuit to Protect Americans from Habeas Corpus Violations