The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the FAA has issued 1,428 permits to domestic drone operators since 2007 and noted this was “far more than were previously known.”

This new number points out again how difficult it is to answer the most common questions EFF gets from ...

Read more: Just How Many Drone Licenses Has the FAA Really Issued?

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

• White House Leaks Draft Amnesty Proposal
• Labor, Business Immigration Talks on Hiatus?
• Senate Holds First Amnesty Hearing
• Napolitano Threatens Cuts to Border Patrol
• In State of the Union, President Peddles Same Failed ...

  Read more: Immigration Reform News and Impact on US Homeland Security February 19, 2013

Special Report from AIM's Center for Investigative Journalism

In the wake of the recent elections, immigration has risen to the top of the list of newsworthy stories—in part pushed to that position of significance by statements made by key members of Congress and the President that “Pathways to ...

Read more: The “Gang of Eight” and Immigration Reform: “Bordering on a National Security Nightmare”

Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Chairman Leahy, Ranking Member Grassley, and committee members, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. In recent weeks, ...

Read more: Comprehensive Immigration Reform is Not a Solution

Thursday, February 14, 2013, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office presented a proposal for the purchase of a drone in a public hearing with the Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee in Oakland, California. EFF joined the ACLU of Northern California and several other public interest groups ...

Read more: Local Sheriff Faces Loud Privacy Protests Against Drone Plans

Spies. Terrorists. Hackers. Pedophiles. Mobsters. Gang leaders and serial killers. We investigate them all, and many more besides.

The very heart of FBI operations lies in their investigations—which serve, as their mission states, "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and ...

Read more: FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 15, 2013

Setting Priorities for the Next Four Years

 March 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—a direct response to 9/11. DHS was established to prevent and mitigate terrorist attacks on the United States. Ten years later, the concept of ...

Read more: 2013 Second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review:

The nominations of John Brennan for CIA Director and Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense are being held up by Republicans in the Senate largely because of the unwillingness of the Obama administration to come clean on the what the President knew, when he knew it, and what he did during the seven ...

Read more: Adm. James Lyons (Ret.) on Growing Benghazi Scandal