Current News
Jun 18, 2013, Sen. Ron Wyden, Senator Ron Wyden, Support Builds for Udall, Wyden Proposal to Limit the Federal Government's Ability to Collect Vast Amounts of Data on Americans
Jun 18, 2013, Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal, Red Cross Argues Guantanamo Reports Can’t Be Disclosed
Jun 18, 2013, Natasha Lennard, Salon, Ray Kelly, who oversaw secret Muslim spying, slams NSA secrecy
Jun 18, 2013, Editorial Board, New York Times, Details on Spying, Not More Assurances
Jun 18, 2013, Kim Zetter, Wired, The NSA Hearing, by the Numbers
Jun 18, 2013, Nina Totenberg, NPR, Why The FISA Court Is Not What It Used To Be
Jun 18, 2013, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners
Jun 17, 2013, Tom Curry, NBC News, Cheney-Gore clash points to cracks in national security consensus
Jun 17, 2013, Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic, Don't Want Corporations to Have Rights? Then the ACLU Suit Is Dead
Jun 17, 2013, Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’
Jun 17, 2013, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Fine Print: In digital world, oversight of intelligence gathering is key
Jun 17, 2013, Editor, Fox News, NSA chief Alexander to testify on classified leaks in rare public hearing
Jun 17, 2013, Dominic Rushe and Stuart Dredge, Guardian (UK), Apple follows Facebook's lead and reveals US surveillance requests
Jun 17, 2013, Reid Cherlin, GQ, Obama's Drone-Master
Jun 16, 2013, Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, State photo-ID databases become troves for police
Jun 16, 2013, The Associated Press, New York Times, Obama Chooses Lawyer as Guantanamo Closure Envoy
Jun 15, 2013, Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times, Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSA
Jun 15, 2013, Carrie Johnson, NPR, Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order
Jun 15, 2013, Paige Lavender, Huffington Post, Senators Skip NSA Briefing: Only 47 Meet With Top Officials On Surveillance
Jun 14, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian (UK), Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised – thankfully
Jun 14, 2013, Timothy R. Homan, Business Week, U.S. House Passes Defense Bill Authorizing $638 Billion Spending
Jun 14, 2013, Adam Serwer, MSNBC, Patriot Act architect cries foul on NSA program, but skipped briefings
Jun 14, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian (UK), On Prism, partisanship and propaganda
Jun 13, 2013, Richard Sobel, CNN, New ID rules would threaten citizens' rights
Jun 13, 2013, Steven Rosenfeld, Salon, 10 ways we wildly underestimate our surveillance state
Jun 13, 2013, David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers, Congress grills NSA chief Keith Alexander about spying
Jun 12, 2013, Aaron Sankin, Huffington Post, Daniel Ellsberg On NSA Spying: 'We're A Turnkey Away From A Police State'
Jun 12, 2013, Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, Are We Still at War?
Jun 12, 2013, Matt Sledge, Huffington Post, FISC Will Not Block Release Of Secret Ruling On Unconstitutional Surveillance
Jun 12, 2013, Jane Sutton, Reuters, Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo
Jun 12, 2013, Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, Rand Paul might not understand his own policies
Jun 12, 2013, Dina Temple-Raston, NPR, After Obama's Speech, Guantanamo Shows Few Signs Of Closing
Jun 12, 2013, Elias Groll, Foreign Policy, Arrest Glenn Greenwald -- and 5 other crazy things Peter King says
Jun 12, 2013, Brian Fung, National Journal, All the National Security Letters Ever Approved Since the Patriot Act
Jun 12, 2013, Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic, The NSA's PR Offensive Is Not Going Well
Jun 12, 2013, Eyder Peralta, NPR, Three Exchanges You Should Listen To About NSA Surveillance
Jun 12, 2013, Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
Jun 11, 2013, Editor, ABC 7 (CA), Daniel Ellsberg praises Edward Snowden
Jun 11, 2013, The Editorial Board, New York Times, Surveillance: A Threat to Democracy
Jun 11, 2013, The Editorial Board, New York Times, Surveillance: Snowden Doesn’t Rise to Traitor
Jun 11, 2013, James B. Rule, New York Times, The Price of the Panopticon
Jun 11, 2013, Editor, Huffington Post, Obama Meets With Reporters In Off-Record Session
Jun 11, 2013, Burgess Everett, Politico, NSA bills face long wait on Hill
Jun 11, 2013, Ellen Nakashima and Scott Wilson, Washington Post, ACLU sues over NSA surveillance program
Jun 11, 2013, Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now!, Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State
Jun 10, 2013, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror
Jun 10, 2013, Dana Milbank, Washington Post, Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Jun 10, 2013, Sen. Rand Paul, Wall Street Journal, Rand Paul: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
Jun 10, 2013, Rebecca Bowe, SF Bay Guardian, NSA whistleblower supporters to speak on civil liberties
Jun 9, 2013, Brian Knowlton, New York Times, Feinstein ‘Open’ to Hearings on Surveillance Programs
Jun 9, 2013, Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman, Nicholas Watt, Business Insider, Bush-Era NSA Director Says Obama 'Expanded' Surveillance Programs
Jun 9, 2013, Aaron Blake, Washington Post, Rand Paul planning class action lawsuit against surveillance programs
Jun 9, 2013, Kimberly Dozier, Huffington Post, National Security Agency: Inside The Organization At Center Of Surveillance Controversy
Jun 8, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, Guardian (UK), Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations
Jun 8, 2013, Lawrence Hurley and Joseph Menn, Reuters, Analysis: Few options for companies to defy U.S. intelligence demands
Jun 8, 2013, Greg Miller, Washington Post, As Obama defends counterterrorism tactics, he finds himself in Bush territory
Jun 7, 2013, Kai Wright, ColorLines Magazine, The Dangerous, Infectious Logic of National Security
Jun 7, 2013, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama
Jun 6, 2013, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian (UK), NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
Jun 6, 2013, Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman, Guardian (UK), Obama administration defends NSA collection of Verizon phone records
Jun 6, 2013, Richard Engel and Robert Windrem, NBC News, EXCLUSIVE: CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show
Jun 6, 2013, Renee Montagne and Linda Wertheimer, NPR, NSA Collects Verizon Customers' Records
Jun 5, 2013, Scott Harris, Between the Lines, Critics Charge Obama Justice Department's Collection of Journalists' Phone Records Undermines Press Freedom
Jun 5, 2013, The Associated Press, CBS News, US Sends 125 Troops To Reinforce Tense Guantanamo Bay
Jun 5, 2013, The Associated Press, CBS (DC), Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
Jun 5, 2013, Debra S. Katz and Danielle Brian, Politico, Shielding the whistleblowers
Jun 5, 2013, Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., The New American, Texas Legislature Sends Drone Regulating Bill to Gov. Perry
Jun 5, 2013, Glenn Thrush, Politico, Susan Rice to be new NSA, Samantha Power to replace her at U.N.
Jun 4, 2013, Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, Report Says T.S.A. Screening Is Not Objective
Jun 4, 2013, Editor, Slate, Tweet These Words and End Up on a Government Watch List
Jun 4, 2013, Ari Shapiro, NPR, What's Next For The FBI: A New Generation Of Challenges
Jun 3, 2013, Carlo Muñoz, The Hill, House rolling back 9/11-era counter terrorism rules of war
Jun 3, 2013, Editorial Board, New York Times, DNA and Suspicionless Searches
Jun 3, 2013, John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, Maryland v. King and the Total Loss of Our Bodily Integrity
Jun 3, 2013, Stephanie Gaskell, Politico, Bradley Manning court-martial begins
Jun 3, 2013, John T. Bennett, Defense News, McKeon's Defense Authorization Plan Doesn't Solve Thorny Issues
Jun 3, 2013, Jeremy Herb, The Hill, Dem blasts Gitmo spending in House bill
Jun 3, 2013, Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor, Does someone at White House want Eric Holder gone?
Jun 1, 2013, Julian Assange, New York Times, The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
Jun 1, 2013, Peter Baker, Charlie Savage and Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, Seeking a Fresh Start, Holder Finds a Fresh Set of Troubles