December 4, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 5, 2020.--This article originally appeared at . It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.The Trump administration recently used one of the most controversial surveillance provisions in U.S. history to record an unidentified person or group's visit to an unspecified website, the New York Times  Thursday. The Times reports that President Trump's director of...…December 4, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 5, 2020.--This article originally appeared at . It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.The Trump administration recently used one of the most controversial surveillance provisions in U.S. history to record an unidentified person or group's visit to an unspecified website, the New York Times  Thursday. The Times reports that President Trump's director of...WW…

The United States has been quietly fundingand equipping elite paramilitary police units in El Salvador accused of extrajudiciallymurdering suspected gang members, according to a forthcoming United Nationsreport reviewed in advance .Beginning with George W. Bush in 2003,successive US administrations have provided tens of millions of dollars inaid for Salvadoran military and police in support of the government’s “ManoDura” (“Firm Hand”) security program, an aggressive campaign to combat out-of-controlgang violence in a country with one of the world’s highest homicide rates.“Mano Dura” aid...…The United States has been quietly fundingand equipping elite paramilitary police units in El Salvador accused of extrajudiciallymurdering suspected gang members, according to a forthcoming United Nationsreport reviewed in advance .Beginning with George W. Bush in 2003,successive US administrations have provided tens of millions of dollars inaid for Salvadoran military and police in support of the government’s “ManoDura” (“Firm Hand”) security program, an aggressive campaign to combat out-of-controlgang violence in a country with one of the world’s highest homicide rates.“Mano Dura” aid...WW…