“Donald Trump illegally fired members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board — now the only board member left is a former Trump appointee,” Sen. Ron Wyden told Nextgov/FCW.

Wallace: What is happening to these criminal cases? Are they just dismissed and the criminals go back out into the community? MacFarlane: In so many of these cases, they're not launching the prosecution. They're declining what federal agents are bringing them.

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Republicans across the country want you to forget that they spent the last year supporting Trump's tariffs that are causing prices to skyrocket and the economy to falter. Get the receipts ⬇️ www.americanbridgepac.org/liberated-fr...

SCOOP: Senator probes DOJ's deal to end historic Iran sanctions case Giving a pass to a record-breaking Iran sanctions-busting scheme during the war smacks of "rank incompetence" — or worse, Sen. Wyden told Scott Bessent. buff.ly/NAswRNO

booooooooo

A new bill from @wyden.senate.gov and @balint.house.gov would give real teeth to an important federal law meant to protect journalists from searches and raids. We’re proud to endorse this update to the Privacy Protection Act.

In contrast, @wyden.senate.gov placed holds on two officers up for promotion due to their links to war crimes, and a third who appeared on a racist, antisemitic podcast www.alternet.org/military-pro...

Congress may soon expand surveillance powers that allow the government to collect Americans’ data without a warrant. Sen. Ron Wyden says Donald Trump is the last person who should get that power.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

I’m working on it

this war is going great

momentum builds for the government surveillance reform act

worth a watch!

Cannot say this enough

This article says Rep. LaHood saw "how FISA 702 was impactful for my own prosecutions." Rep. LaHood was a federal prosecutor from 2001 to 2006, according to his website. FISA Section 702 was created in 2008. In 2008, Rep. LaHood was in private practice, according to his website.

Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.

EPIC is proud to endorse the bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act. Sens. Ron Wyden and Mike Lee and Reps. Warren Davidson and Zoe Lofgren introduced the bill this week to protect Americans’ rights and tamp down on warrantless government surveillance.

A warrantless wiretapping law known as Section 702 is set to expire on April 20 unless Congress votes to extend it. Past cycles have been rocky. www.nytimes.com/article/sect...

FBI is buying our location data! "Congress needs to pass Government Surveillance Reform act,”Sen Wyden. A judicial warrant is required to obtain location data directly but government agencies have instead been able to buy such information from private data brokers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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This is a key point that too many people are missing

sorry use this link. same news.

FBI Director Patel does not deny the FBI buys Americans' location data, when questioned by @wyden.senate.gov This would be news ...

Sen. Wyden: Can you commit to not buying Americans' location data? Kash Patel: The FBI uses all tools to do our mission

Wyden to Gabbard: "Last year, your agencies testified 'Iran's large conventional forces are capable of inflicting substantial damage to an attacker, executing regional strikes & disrupting shipping, particularly through Hormuz.' In other words, every problem were seeing now was predicted"

Here is the assessment @wyden.senate.gov mentioned just now - last year the IC predicted every single thing that has happened so far, including impacts on the strait of Hormuz that have spiked gas prices

tune in to the Senate Intelligence Committee's worldwide threat hearing today - streaming here - www.intelligence.senate.gov/2026/03/17/o... @wyden.senate.gov has some important questions re: intelligence in the run up to the unnecessary war on Iran, and about government surveillance ...

Two great thinkers on privacy in one place

uhh

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

Reece James started training with Chelsea as a six-year-old 💫 Twenty years on he's the club captain, a Champions League and Club World Cup winner, and today signs a fresh contract until 2032. Proper Chelsea 💙

funny how antitrust concerns disappear when there's propaganda to be done

this man inflicted damage on his own brain to do journalism.

NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional. It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.

Sen. Ron Wyden says there's secret classified info in 702 surveillance program about Americans' privacy “The American people are going to be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information" www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

#Wyden Calls on Senate to Reform Mass #Surveillance, Protect Americans' Rights and Reject #Rudd to lead #NSA - www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Pay attention to what @wyden.senate.gov is saying here about Section 702 of FISA

Pay attention to what @wyden.senate.gov is saying here about Section 702 of FISA

This week the Senate is going to vote on Joshua Rudd to be Director of the NSA. He's a dangerous nominee to lead an agency with a history of abusing domestic surveillance capabilities. Here's why:

tune In to the Senate floor at 11 for @wyden.senate.gov speaking on the dangerous surveillance tools that the next NSA director and other Trump officials will have at their disposal and the urgent need for reform

Difficult to overstate how important this NSA job is...

@wyden.senate.gov speaking now to oppose the nomination of Gen. Rudd to lead the NSA, and on the dangers of unqualified, unaccountable leadership of agencies that conduct sprawling government surveillance - www.senate.gov/legislative/...

it was when john bolton was on every single news program cheerleading the Iran war and saying there's no downside that was the coup de grace for me

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

this is good

Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Shontel Brown are calling for an investigation into the vulnerability of modern computers to what the NSA calls TEMPEST: spy techniques that pick up devices' accidental electromagnetic/radio/acoustic emissions to learn their secrets. www.wired.com/story/how-vu...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called the strike on a girls’ school in Minab a “horror.” The attack reportedly killed 165 people, mostly children. He rejected Sec. Rubio’s argument that the US had to follow Israel into war to defend American interests. “I think it’s not a close call. We make foreign...