PCJF statement: CIA clears itself of wrongdoing after hacking Senate oversight committee
A CIA review panel has announced that its agents did not break the law when they searched the computers and hacked the emails of Senate staffers tasked with investigating the CIA's record of torture.
Huffington Post: D.C. Police Take A Progressive Approach To Protests. It Wasn't Always That Way.
But the current approach that D.C. police take toward protests did not come about on its own. Instead, the more relaxed attitude is the result of investigations and litigation that came about after the Metropolitan Police Department employed a heavy-handed approach to various protests in the late 1990s and early 2000s.