President Obama once pledged that his government would be the most transparent in history — a claim that is often mocked by civil libertarians and other critics who accuse him of almost Nixonian secrecy policies and inclinations. That troubling record is playing out...
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Massachusetts Cheerleader Tweets Criticism Of Illegal Immigration, School Bans Her From Team
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the rapid erosion of free speech on our campuses. That trend started a long time ago in our high schools where officials have steadily attacked the exercise of free speech by teenagers. Few however have reached the level of censorship and...
Forty Percent of Millennials Favor Censorship of Offensive Speech By Government
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 23, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have long discussed the rapid decline of free speech protections in the West. I have long argued that the West appears to have fallen out of love with free speech, which is more often viewed as a rising scourge rather than a defining value in some countries. A...
Idaho School Bans Confederate Flag On Student’s Car
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have previously discussed the ongoing controversy over the confederate flag as well as past cases of student speech being curtailed. This story combines those themes after Jordan Beattie, a student at Cossa Academy in Wilder, Idaho was banned from flying the...
State Department and Intelligence Agencies Ask For Criminal Investigation in the Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
In a major development on the Clinton email scandal, the New York Times is reporting that the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence community have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton...
Video: TSA Supervisor Threatens Young Man Filming the Patdown Of His Father
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have yet another case of a police or security officer threatening a citizen for recording an encounter. The videotape below was taken by a young man who filmed the putdown of his father at the New Orleans airport. The supervisor warns the young man that he will be...
‘This Flag Never Goes Down’: Amazon Reportedly Takes Down Historical Book On Confederate Flag Due To Confederate Flag On Cover
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The extensive move to remove the Confederate Flag from public and some commercial settings has raised serious concerns over both free speech and academic freedom. While the flag has been used as a racist symbol, it is also a historical symbol. According to one author,...
US Funded Industrial Park in Afghanistan Found With Only One Business and No Electricity . . . And Missing Records
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have yet another example of how we are wasting billions of dollars in Afghanistan where a combination of incompetence and corruption continues to drain the US treasury. This week, SIGAR released two reports showing how, an inspection of the $7.8 million Shorandam...
Report: Afghanistan War Reaches $1 Trillion And Will Require Hundreds of Billions More
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite the public pledge of President Obama to pull out of Afghanistan, we continue to spend huge amounts of money in the war and the Obama Administration has fought to keep US troops in the country. Now an estimate from the Financial Times and independent...
Pennsylvania Legislature Moves To Pass Injunctive Law In Wake Of Abu-Jamal Commencement Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
There has been some predicable and understandable objections to the selection of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted killer of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981, as this year’s commencement speaker for Goddard College in Vermont. Faulkner’s widow and...
Operation Voldemort: The War Which Must Not Be Named
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 7, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is an interesting dimension to the ongoing circumvention of the Constitution over our latest undeclared war. While some Administration officials are finally calling our attacks in Syria as a “war,” the discomfort over defining this indefinite campaign has led to...
Obama: I Do Not Need Congressional Approval To Go To War With ISIS
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Obama is again asserting his right to act unilaterally and without congressional approval in going to war. In what has become a mantra for this Administration, Obama reportedly told members of Congress that he does not need congressional approval to unleash...
‘We Tortured Some Folks’ — Obama Admits United States Committed Acts Violating Federal and International Law
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
Following the admission that the CIA hacked Senate computers and lied to Congress, President Obama today affirmed that it did indeed torture people. This admission (while belated) is an important recognition by the United States of what is obvious from a legal...
CIA Admits Hacking Senate Computers After Months of Denials
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
In the same week as the State Department report endorsing findings that the CIA lied to Congress and brutalized suspects, the CIA is now admitting that its recent denials of hacking Senate computers was also false. Once again, however, there is not even a suggestion...
Senate Approves Transfer Of Additional $351 Million To Israel To Fund Its Iron Dome Missile Defense System
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee just approved the transfer of $351 million to Israel for the Iron Dome missile defense system — that will bring the appropriations this week for Israel to $621 million. There has been virtually no debate about such...
Federal Court Rules Government’s No-Fly List Is Unconstitutional
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
There is a major decision out of Oregon where U.S. District Judge Anna Brown has ruled that the government’s no-fly list is unconstitutional since there is no meaningful way to contest inclusion of the list barring you from commercial flights. Brown issued a 65 page...
Once Again Into The Breach: U.S. Shipping More Weapons and Preparing More Military Aid To Iraq
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
The United States is mulling further intervention in Iraq as the government forces flee Al Qaeda-linked insurgents and the country appears teetering on chaos. While the Administration is not ready to commit boots not the grounds, we may be moving toward a further...
No Water For You: Obama Administration Moves To Cut Off Water To Pot Growers In Washington and Oregon
by Jonathan Turley | May 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
For months, the Obama Administration has been dealing with the growing revolt among the states over federal marijuana laws. Twenty states and the District of Columbia legalized medical marijuana use over the opposition of the federal government and medical use. Two...
Obama Administration Quietly Strips Senate Bill Of Provision Requiring Disclosure Of Annual Drone Kills
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
There is yet another victory for the national security state under President Obama. The Obama Administration has succeeded, with the help of Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein, in quietly removing a provision that would seem unobjectionable to a...
Congress Investigates “Slush Fund” At USAID Used To Get Lawmakers To Pass Reforms
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
Our government has long seemed to be descending into a type of Orwellian universe of double speak. The Libyan War was not a war but a “time-limited, scope-limited military action” under Obama. Torture of detainees was not torture but “enhanced interrogation” under...
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