By Eric Brakey Eight years in exile, Edward Snowden dreams of returning home. Only twenty-nine when he saw his country for the last time, Snowden set out—like Paul Revere ten generations before him—on an uncertain journey to warn his countrymen of an unseen threat. Guilty of obeying his oath to the Constitution, he is pursued…
It is no secret that President Trump’s pardons thus far in his presidency have been extremely polarizing. From Roger Stone to Alice Marie Johnson and former Governor Rob Blagojevich, the administration’s pardons have been covered more by media than any other. Which is why perhaps the most controversial and impactful is yet to come in…
Criminal justice reform is an important topic for Libertarians. Not only do they want to change the laws to get rid of nonsensical and failed prohibitionist policies, such as the War on Drugs, but they also want to retroactively release anyone who’s been imprisoned for things they shouldn’t have been charged for in the first…
The Libertarian Party is choosing its nominee for President and Vice President of the United States this weekend. As a longtime party member and activist, and a California delegate to our National Convention, I’ve had the pleasure of receiving many emails, texts, messages and phone calls from individuals running for the nomination. Most of…
Early this morning, the award-winning whistleblower Edward Snowden went on Joe Rogan’s world famous podcast. They discuss how Snowden‘s life, space aliens, the Fourth Amendment and more! Enjoy it on your favorite podcast app or via the YouTube video below. Follow Joe Rogan on Twitter. [RELATED: Benedict Arnold’s Self-Interest Proves Edward Snowden’s Patriotism]
Julian Assange, 47, was forcefully evicted from his 2,488-day exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London early Thursday morning when British authorities entered the embassy with permission from the Ecuadorian government.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND) spent several years spying on U.S. targets, including the White House, Der Spiegel reported Thursday. The magazine claims it has seen documents containing around 4,000 selector keywords for BND surveillance between 1998 and 2006. It contains email addresses at the White House…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Russian President Vladimir Putin likened former FBI Director James Comey to NSA leaker Edward Snowden and offered him political asylum at an annual televised Q&A in Russia. Putin said Comey’s reported practice of taking detailed notes of his conversations with President Donald Trump was behavior like that of a civil…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky are among those calling on Donald Trump to drop the US government’s investigation into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, reports the Guardian. According to the Guardian, Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, and social critic Chomsky, along with the signatures from over 100 other activists, journalists and government workers…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Ideologically inspired leakers inside the intelligence community are the biggest threat to U.S. secrets, Michael Hayden, former Air Force general and NSA head, said to McClatchy. The CIA is in the midst of a manhunt to find a leaker who distributed classified cyber hacking tools to Wikileaks. Hayden’s comments highlight that…