Chloe Ladner·Nov 2The Muslim Brotherhood Designation DebateCapitol Hill’s Counter-Terrorism Theater: Why Weaponizing the Muslim Brotherhood Designation Backfires
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 25Dossier 035: 7,200 Files and 300,000 Names: The CIA’s Watch on the Antiwar MovementFor nearly seven years, a sealed-off CIA unit called Operation CHAOS gathered information on Americans who opposed the Vietnam War, while…
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 23Dossier 032: What the Inspector General Found When It Audited the FBI’s Secret Records DemandsNational security letters let the FBI collect phone, bank and credit records without a judge, and in 2007 the Justice Department’s own…
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 19Dossier 023: Cash Taken Without a Charge: What the Federal Record Shows About Civil ForfeitureA 2017 inspector general review could verify that fewer than half of a sample of DEA cash seizures advanced any investigation. The sharing…
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 17Dossier 020: What Troops Did in Southern California, According to the Only Trial on the QuestionA federal judge found that the 2025 Los Angeles deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act. The ruling has been on hold ever since, and…
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 16Dossier 017: What the Church Committee Found About U.S. Intelligence, and Which of Its Safeguards…In 1976 a Senate committee proposed 96 reforms. Some became law. Several are under strain this year.
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 13Dossier 049: The No Fly List After Fikre: How Americans Get on the Watchlist, and How They Get OffHow Americans land on the No Fly List, how they can challenge it, and what the courts and a GAO review show about getting off it.
John W. Whitehead·Oct 7AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes“United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation.” — President Donald Trump, Executive Order 14365
