Tuesday’s report that internet giant Yahoo had collaborated with the NSA to scan every email coming in to its millions of users roiled the online community.
Josh Withrow
Josh Withrow is the former Director of Public Policy at Free the People. Prior to joining Free the People, Josh Withrow was the Legislative Affairs Manager at FreedomWorks. There, he oversaw federal legislative priorities and spent considerable time working with allies on the Hill to develop and implement policy strategies to advance liberty. He was also responsible for managing FreedomWorks’ legislative scorecard, determining which votes to score and weights assigned.
Before joining in the cause of liberty, Josh was on the path to academia, earning his B.A. in Classics and History from the University of Nebraska, and his M.A. in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University. When not working (which is rarely) Josh can be found reenacting the Civil War, playing classical piano or cheering on his New England Patriots.
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If you drive across the Rust Belt, it’s pretty easy to see why Donald Trump’s aggressive trade stances appeal to so many Americans.
Surveillance hawks attempted to use fear to ram through an unconstitutional expansion of the government’s surveillance powers.
If you or I get caught skirting the law, things generally do not work out well for us. If the FBI does it, they just get Congress to rewrite the law.
The rapid spread of free, strong and user-friendly encryption has panicked some members of Congress who have gone so far as to offer absurd proposals to try to ban strong encryption outright.
The Centers for Disease Control have been in the news a lot lately, begging Congress for money to address the spread of the Zika virus.
House Republicans are literally gambling with money for the troops. By tucking billions of dollars of general defense spending into the emergency war funding, Republican big-spenders have only left enough actual war funding to last through April 2017 instead of September.