This morning’s hearing, alarmingly entitled, The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack, will use the completely failed attempt by a bumbling teenager to conduct a terrorist attack as an opportunity to attempt the American people that they are in terrible, constant danger of terrorist attack. No advocates for the constitutional rights of American citizens have been invited.

There were just two young people who wanted to kiss. Yet, Senator Lautenberg wouldn’t let up. He declared that he was “outraged”, and demanded that video of the incident be released.

The following is our transcription of remarks made today by Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel of the Center for Democracy and Technology, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security. Thank you for the opportunity to testify about cybersecurity and civil liberties on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Technology. CDT [...]

A peek into what a Senate committee hearing looks like comes to us today as the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security meets to hear testimony on “cybersecurity.” Here’s what the hearing room looks like. As you can see, the room is just packed… on the side of the room not containing U.S. [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security will be holding a hearing this Tuesday at 10 AM entitled “Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace.” What happens in this hearing will set the stage for legislation to regulate the internet and to regulate people on it. How strongly will the [...]

Mark Souder’s anti-government criticisms are unwelcome in tone, but right on target on identifying the need to begin to restrain the still-expanding politics of fear.

Zach Space’s everything-possible policy to increase security for its own sake is designed to satisfy people’s fears without making any actual improvement in their lives.

Take your laptop with you on an international business trip, and U.S. border agents can take it from you and search its contents, without ever telling you why they’re doing it. Eliot Engel is trying to change that policy.

Congressman Israel’s bill ranges from the outrageously implausible to the mundane. What’s next? A bill to establish grants to train school nurses in how to deal with hostile invasions from the planet Mars, and skinned knees?

In June, Republican Representative Thaddeus McCotter was noticeably upset at the possibility that an accused criminal would be given the right to a trial: “The Manhattan federal trial of Ahmed Ghailani again proves the Obama administration’s ideological refusal to face the reality that terrorism is a global martial threat; not a domestic criminal matter. The [...]