The U.S. has declassified secret orders that allowed it to engage in massive surveillance of the phone calls and Internet usage of Americans, information about two clandestine programs that former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked last month.
As Congress continues to work to hammer out a Trillion dollar farm bill, news has come out of the General Accountability Office that as much as $22 million in subsidies may have been paid out between 2008 and 2012 to farmers that have been dead for two or more years.
During the past 72 hours, the FBI; its local, state, and federal law enforcement partners; and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) conducted Operation Cross Country VII, a three-day enforcement action to address commercial child sex trafficking throughout the United States.