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NSA testimony

Officials leak secrets to advance careers or justify wars and weapons programs, but Edward Snowden’s the criminal?

NSA surveillance

The NSA isn’t the only government agency exploiting technology to make privacy obsolete.

Westgate Mall

The reports I’ve seen describe Nairobi’s Westgate mall as upscale, but that’s not the whole story, and not how I remember it.

Barack Obama

When Obama announced a review of surveillance practices, he was compelled by Snowden’s heroic actions.

Bradley Manning

What if your country begins to change and no one notices?

Blogs

There’s really nothing “meta” about metadata.

June 10, 2013

The morning after the NSA whistleblower goes public.

June 10, 2013

The hacker who snitched on Bradley Manning takes the stand.

June 5, 2013

More than a decade after Congress passed the PATRIOT Act, its varied implications are still unraveling.

February 24, 2012

A decade ago, there was near-universal acknowledgement that profiling was unethical and ineffective. Yet the practice continues.

September 6, 2011

The plan to renew the Patriot Act may have the backing of Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders and the Obama White House. But this is bad bipartisanship.

May 23, 2011

Lately, when the term “bipartisan compromise” is tossed around, it tends to mean that Democrats are giving in to the Republican position on issues, or that women's rights are being sacrificed to some larger purpose.

February 10, 2011

Our country has a pattern of losing its mind over issues that later turn out to be insignificant.

August 17, 2010

The usual leapers leap to their conclusions.

May 3, 2010

It's time for the naysayers to wake up and smell the Bill of Rights.

April 2, 2010
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