Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.