Uncovering secret surveillance enabled by the courts? Easy to read graphs that have a y-axis starting at zero? Paywall free, informative content? I clicked a fe

Uncovering secret surveillance enabled by the courts? Easy to read graphs that have a y-axis starting at zero? Paywall free, informative content? I clicked a few ads to say thanks. When only 1 of 4,100 cases over five years in a particular district has the public record unsealed, I think it's safe to call this a cover-up. > Yet the listings of how often law enforcement applied to judges to conduct covert electronic surveillance — a list that itself is usually sealed... The information about what are known as pen register and trap and trace orders was made public after litigation by the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), journalists and others, including some service providers. You know, when the press operates as it should, as nonpartisan fact finder and uncovering truth through hard-fought FOIA battles, well first your sick about whatever you just read, then at least you feel a bit better knowing that at least someone is trying to shine some light on it.