Julian Sanchez
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Vaccine 'Passports' Could Be Useful — but Only If Government Gets Out of the Way
If it is sometimes necessary to verify a person’s vaccination status, then it’s hard to argue that the process shouldn’t be as secure, reliable and convenient as possible. → Read More
Trump Is Looking for Fraud in All the Wrong Places
The defeated president tried to sow doubts about Georgia and other swing states that laboriously upgraded their voting systems, while safe red states keep using antiquated equipment. → Read More
Trump Is Looking for Fraud in All the Wrong Places
The defeated president tried to sow doubts about Georgia and other swing states that laboriously upgraded their voting systems, while safe red states keep using antiquated equipment. → Read More
Trump’s QAnon comments show how cruel he is to his own supporters
It would take almost no effort from the president to mitigate the damage QAnon is doing. Instead, he encouraged the movement. → Read More
A Chance to Fix FISA
"When Congress does finally take up the issue again, this most recent compromise bill will be the baseline for further improvements—and improvements are sorely needed." → Read More
How out of Control Is Our Surveillance State?
Americans deserve a stronger assurance than “hope” that their Fourth Amendment rights are being respected. → Read More
How Out of Control Is Our Surveillance State?
Americans deserve a stronger assurance than “hope” that their Fourth Amendment rights are being respected. → Read More
The Mueller Report Arrives (Sorta)
Attorney General William Barr has released a brief description of the findings of Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian meddling in U.S. elections. Many questions remain. Julian Sanchez comments.... → Read More
Mueller’s Real Target in the Roger Stone Indictment
It was probably not Stone himself, but rather his electronic devices. → Read More
2018 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference
The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politic... → Read More
Trump’s Deceitful Claims About Carter Page Have Obscured a Bigger Debate on Privacy
The F.B.I. followed the laws in wiretapping the former Trump adviser. But do those laws protect our privacy well enough? → Read More
Trump’s Deceitful Claims About Carter Page Have Obscured a Big Debate on Privacy
The F.B.I. followed the laws in wiretapping the former Trump adviser. But do those laws protect our privacy well enough? → Read More
Trump could get his intel from the government. Instead, he gets it from Fox News.
The answers to his questions are out there. He just doesn’t want to hear them. → Read More
Julian Sanchez
Julian Sanchez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and contributing editor for Reason magazine. → Read More
Report Suggests the FBI’s 2016 Battle Over iPhone Encryption Was Awfully Disingenuous
It looks like the bureau was more interested in an emotionally charged, high-profile test case. → Read More
Free-Range Kids vs. Fretful Mother Magazine
Featuring Lenore Skenazy and Caleb O. Brown How do give our children the autonomy they deserve without fear? Lenore Skenazy has a few ideas. → Read More
Russia Wanted Trump to Win. And It Wanted to Get Caught.
Its election interference didn’t aim at just the outcome — it also targeted attitudes toward our democracy. → Read More
#CatoConnects: The Nunes Memo, Surveillance, and Secret Courts
Intelligence experts have generally been skeptical of the conclusions of the “Nunes memo,” but the fight over this document may do long-term damage to attempts to provide important oversight for the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Julian Sanchez comments. → Read More
The DOJ Is Moving Toward Absolute Control by Trump Loyalists. That Should Terrify You.
Imagine a DOJ staffed by lawyers as compliant and loyal to the boss as Trump had assumed at the outset they all would be. → Read More
The Tax Bill Didn’t Kill Obamacare
Featuring Sal Nuzzo and Caleb O. Brown Obamacare lives. Sal Nuzzo of the James Madison Institute discusses what that means for states trying to make reforms. → Read More