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Constitution in Crisis :: June Newsletter

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Dear Troublemakers, Before you scroll down to look at all the great articles we published this month, I want to pause and ask if you remember Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor turned whistleblower? She was arrested on June 3, 2017, and charged under the Espionage Act for allegedly providing a media organization with a top-secret document… [Read More]

Constitution in Crisis :: May Newsletter

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Dear Troublemakers, Together, we’ve been fighting to hold the CIA accountable for torture for over a decade. Thank you for engaging with us in the most recent battle – to defeat the nominations of Mike Pompeo (torture apologist) to be Secretary of State, and Gina Haspel (torture supervisor) to be CIA Director. We lost a tough… [Read More]

Constitution in Crisis :: April Newsletter

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Dear Troublemakers, The fact that the nomination of a known torturer to be head of the CIA hasn’t been rejected out of hand even by Democrats in the Senate is truly shameful. Not only did Gina Haspel oversee torture when she was head of a CIA blacksite in Thailand, she later ordered the destruction of… [Read More]

Who’s a Foreign Agent? The Answer May Surprise You

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As Congress seeks to counter Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election, lawmakers have turned for help to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, an 80-year-old law that requires agents of foreign principals to register with the Attorney General. Several bills have been introduced to strengthen enforcement of the law, which has been rarely used.

Toxic Brew: State Politicians, Gas & Oil Lobbyists, and ALEC Join Forces Against Environmental Protesters

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Politicians in some states are none too pleased with the environmental movement, particularly with protests against pipelines and fracking. Aided and abetted by extractive industry lobbyists and the powerful and secretive American Legislative Exchange Council, they have started to pass legislation to stifle the protests. The bills are part of a larger wave of anti-protest… [Read More]

What the Heck is Going On?

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Dear Troublemakers, What the heck is going on? If you don’t applaud for the president, you are accused of treason? Meanwhile, across the aisle, critics of the president are latching onto the FBI and CIA as the saviors of democracy, and casting anyone who criticizes them as unpatriotic? Earlier this month, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA),… [Read More]