All posts tagged "Radley Balko"

Back in 2012, authorities in Kansas raided the home of two CIA analysts due to suspicions that the couple was trafficking marijuana. When the SWAT team barged into the home of Robert and Addie Harte in search of a major grow operation, they failed to find any evidence of the sort, so they changed their objective to finding pot for personal use. They found nothing.

The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee has taken a giant step towards limiting the civil liberties of American citizens by approving a bill that, according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, "would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out."