New York Post, May 29, 2024 Fauci’s FOIA follies show ‘transparency’ in Washington has always been a fraud by James Bovard Republican congressional investigators are exposing brazen COVID cover-ups by the National Institutes for Health and top aides to Anthony Fauci. Bureaucrats have dodged complying with the Freedom of Information Act — a law meant […]
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The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree
The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree by James Bovard Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of […]
N.Y. Post: Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated
New York Post, June 8, 2023 Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated by James Bovard Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the pious masthead motto The Washington Post adopted in the Trump era. But in the Biden era, the Post sees censorship as the salvation of self-government. Censorship requires secrecy to […]
Biden’s Sham Summit Won’t Save World Democracy
Libertarian Institute, April 3, 2023 Biden’s Sham Summit Won’t Save World Democracy by Jim Bovard President Joe Biden triumphantly saved world democracy last week (at least according to the White House scorecard). Biden co-hosted another Summit for Democracy, a repeat performance after the December 2021 test run. Biden sounded like a Quaalude Savior as he […]
N.Y. Post: Farcical summit won’t save Biden or democracy
New York Post, March 30, 2023 Farcical summit won’t save Biden or democracy by James Bovard Sounding like a Quaalude Savior, President Biden droned to foreign leaders Wednesday about how he’ll rescue world democracy. Suffering from a cold, Biden recited the “inflection point of history” cliché he hustled at the first Summit for Democracy in […]
Pro-Censorship Democrats Whitewash the Federal Iron Fist
Pro-Censorship Democrats Whitewash the Federal Government’s Iron Fist by Jim Bovard | Mar 13, 2023 The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing last Thursday on the Twitter Files. Elon Musk purchased Twitter last October and was aghast to learn how the feds had previously domineered his new company. “Twitter […]
N.Y. Post: How the feds spend $74M a year to Censor Americans
New York Post, March 3, 2023 How the feds spend $74M a year to try to censor Americans by James Bovard Have you ever tweeted about Russia? You could be tarred as an “unwitting proliferator of Russian narratives” by US government scorekeepers. Do you support the French “yellow vest” anti-lockdown protests? You are “Russia-aligned,” according […]