https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/03/andrew-p-napolitano/silent-attacks-on-personal-freedom/

Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
By Andrew P. Napolitano

During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link.

When FBI Director Christopher Wray was confronted with evidence of this purchase in 2021, he stated under oath at a congressional hearing that his agents did not and would not use it; but they bought it because they wanted to understand how it worked. He claimed that it was in storage under lock and key in a warehouse in New Jersey.

Not trusting his own FBI director, President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2023 prohibiting the use of this software by any employee of the federal government except for true national security emergencies. Last week, we learned that President Donald Trump quietly rescinded Biden’s executive order.

We also learned last week that the infamous section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires next month and which Trump once condemned when he believed it was being used against him personally when he was out of office as well as during his first term, now has the president’s full endorsement for a legislative extension. ......