Government Transparency & Accountability
Whistleblowers, secrecy, surveillance, and self-enrichment in office, measured against religious teachings on honesty and the Constitution's emoluments and oversight provisions.
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- The Epstein Files: Who Gets Protected?The law required transparency about the powerful and protection for victims. What was delivered was the opposite: victims exposed, enablers shielded.
- Protecting Whistleblowers Who Speak Truth to PowerEvery major religious tradition honors those who speak truth to power — and warns that punishing them is the mark of an unjust ruler.
- Government Secrecy and the Public's Right to KnowBoth religious traditions and the Constitution presume that governance should be transparent.
- AI Mass Surveillance of CitizensReligious traditions across the board treat the dignity of human privacy as a serious moral concern — and warn that rulers who build elaborate watching…
- FISA Section 702 and Warrantless Searches of AmericansThe Fourth Amendment's central promise is that the government searches a particular person because it has a particular reason — not that it gathers…
- Presidential Profit, Memecoins, and the Emoluments ClausesReligious traditions across the world have warned for thousands of years about rulers who convert sacred trust into personal money.
- The IRS Targeting of Tea Party GroupsThe IRS Tea Party targeting was the mirror image of the political-prosecution and political-enforcement questions the site treats about the current…