Huffington Post Finally Removes Most Articles About Fake Email Inventor;...
Over the weekend, it appears that someone at the Huffington Post finally realized that hoping the fuss over its entirely bogus "history of email" series would blow over wasn't going to happen. In case...
View ArticleFerguson PD Lies About Why It Released Videotape Of Store Robbery, Lies Some...
In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Police made several ill-advised moves. The biggest was the paramilitary force that greeted protests, looking for all the world like a unit...
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Two Top Intelligence Officials, Both Of Whom Admitted To Lying In The Past,...
Apparently the US intelligence community has decided that they should start trying to totally rewrite the history of two of its top officials directly lying to Congress. First up: Director of National...
View ArticleCIA Boss Lies About His Earlier Lie, Proved Wrong By Earlier CIA Statements
Last week, we wrote about how CIA boss John Brennan was trying to do a bit of history rewriting concerning the CIA's spying on Senate staffers' computers. As you may recall, when the allegations first...
View ArticleWhy Won't The Press Admit That CIA Director John Brennan Lied?
We've been writing a bit about CIA director John Brennan and his continuing to misrepresent the truth and outright lie. As you probably know, back in March, Senator Dianne Feinstein revealed that the...
View Article'Scorpion' Walter O'Brien Finally Tries To Respond To Inconsistencies In His...
I really thought we were done writing about Walter O'Brien -- the claimed "inspiration" for the TV show Scorpion. We already wrote two separate posts detailing the questionable, unbelievable or...
View ArticleJustice Department Admits It Lied To Appeals Court Concerning Companies'...
Back in October, we wrote about the appeal on the legality of National Security Letters (NSLs), which are secretive filings from law enforcement demanding information with a perpetual gag order. In...
View ArticleFormer CIA Director Hayden: We Didn't Lie About Interrogation Program....
Former CIA director Michael Hayden warned anyone who would listen that the release of the Torture Report would turn our enemies against us… or further against us, or something. He also claimed that he...
View ArticleConvicted 'Eco-Terrorist' Released From Prison After Discovery Of 'Thousands...
Ladies and gentlemen: your Federal Bureau of Investigation. Former FBI Guy Lies, Claiming New Mobile Encryption Would Have Resulted In Dead Kidnap Subject Court Slams FBI For Saying It's Okay For The...
View ArticleDOJ Tells Court It Hasn't Even Opened CIA Torture Report... After Telling...
I don't care who you are (even, say… the government), but if you're going to tell two different versions of a story, it helps to not have both in print and publicly available. Trevor Timm of the...
View ArticleShould The Punishment For Falsely Accusing People Of A Crime Match The...
Two very different stories, but both with some startling parallels. First, Radley Balko's story about how police and attorneys in Louisiana apparently flat out lied to claim that a process server...
View ArticleLooks Like CIA's 'Torture Revealed Osama's Courier' Story Now Even More False...
For quite some time now, there have been serious questions about how how the US was able to track down Osama bin Laden's "hiding place" to send in special forces to kill him. The story many people...
View ArticleJudge Orders Release Of Dashcam Footage City Officials Thought They Had Paid...
A federal judge has ordered the unsealing of dashcam footage depicting several Gardena (CA) police officers shooting unarmed men (one of them inadvertently). The city's representatives fought the...
View ArticleChris Christie So Obsessed With Increasing Surveillance He Pretends He Was A...
Other than when News Corp. used copyright to takedown its own feed from last night's GOP Presidential debates, there really wasn't much that was Techdirt-related. The only other significant moment was...
View ArticleIntel Officials' Claims That NSA Couldn't Access Majority Of Cellphone...
The recent Snowden documents published by the New York Times and ProPublica confirm the close relationship between AT&T and the NSA, which would explain the deafening silence the company issued in...
View ArticleIf The CIA Apologizes For Lying About Torture, But Doesn't Tell Anyone About...
Remember the Senate Intelligence Committee's massive CIA torture report, that details how the CIA conducted a vast program of torturing people, which had no actual benefit, and then lied to Congress...
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FBI Denies It Lied About Ability To Crack iPhone, Also Suggests Cellebrite...
LAST DAY to support Techdirt's crowdfunding campaign! As we pointed out earlier this week, it's pretty obvious that the Justice Department lied to a federal magistrate judge in saying that it had...
View ArticleFCC Fines T-Mobile For Abusing The Definition Of 'Unlimited' Data
For the better part of the last decade, wireless carriers have had an often vicious, adversarial relationship with the dictionary. More specifically, they've struggled repeatedly with the definition...
View ArticleAT&T's Already Making Things Up To Get Its Massive New Merger Approved
Over the years, we've noted how AT&T has a nasty habit of lying to sell the public, press and regulators on the company's neverending attempts to grow larger. Whether it's promising broadband...
View ArticleThe Real Controversy Over The Non-Existent 'Bowling Green Massacre' Is That...
We've already made our views clear on the horrible nature of the Trump administration's ban on travelers who were born in seven predominantly Muslim countries. The administration has been trying to...
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