CIA torture report: The use of mass surveillance and torture are the hallmarks of totalitarian governments, writes Patrick Eddington.

Among other problems, a REAL ID requirement potentially creates an end-run around direct regulation of the right to travel.

Editor’s Note: Patrick G. Eddington, a former CIA analyst and House senior policy adviser, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the writer’s.

In defense of the press, WikiLeaks By Patrick G. Eddington British police, with the cooperation of the Ecuadorian government, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Patrick Eddington is a Senior Fellow for the Cato Institute with 15 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 House Committee as an Analyst for ...

Former CIA analyst Patrick Eddington is a policy analyst in civil liberties at the Cato Institute. He is writing a book on book on domestic surveillance and political repression.

The release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, along with allegations of obstruction of justice by the ...

And now, writes Cato Institute Homeland Security Policy Analyst Patrick G. Eddington, with some of those abusive powers facing a June 1, 2015 expiration date, Congress faces another moment of ...

Two days after ISIS’ savage attacks in Paris, a documentary premiered in New York that gave voice to a question on everyone’s mind: Can such attacks be prevented? Austrian film ...

Patrick G. Eddington said at least 165,000 gulf war veterans and an undetermined, but probably large, number of their spouses and children are sick from chemical and biological weapons used and ...