August 1, 2013 "NSA 'Leaks' Own Documents Before Senate Committee Grilling; Inadvertently Reveals Its Previous Lies to Congress"
August 1, 2013 "President Obama: NSA Surveillance Was Necessary to Make Sure Boston Bombings Weren't Part of Bigger Plot"
August 1, 2013 "Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers"
August 3, 2013 "How One U.S. City Is Becoming a Surveillance State"
August 4, 2013 "In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo"
August 4, 2013 "Welcome to Post-Constitution America"
August 4, 2013 "Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA"
August 5, 2013 "Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans"
August 5, 2013 "Are Surveillance Blimps the New Drones?"
August 5, 2013 "Systematic Deceit from the NSA"
August 6, 2013 "Every Time the NSA Is Asked About Its Ability to Spy on Everyone...It Answers About Its Authority"
August 6, 2013 "Wikipedia Vows to Protect Readers From Government Snooping"
August 7, 2013 "Is the Latest Terrorism Alert Earnest or Overhyped?"
August 7, 2013 "Caustic Light on White House's Reaction to a Terrorist Threat"
August 7, 2013 "Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence"
August 7, 2013 "Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be a 'High Threat'"
August 7, 2013 "If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he'd ask a basic question: 'Does it do any good?'"
August 8, 2013 "N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and from U.S."
August 8, 2013 "What It Means to Be an NSA 'Target': New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform"
August 9, 2013 "Did NSA Interpret Adverse FISC Fourth Amendment Ruling as Permission to Search American Contacts?"
August 9, 2013 "Language, deception, and the people comprising the surveillance state"
August 9, 2013 "There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along"
August 9, 2013 "How the Government Killed a Secure E-Mail Company"
August 10, 2013 "The NSA-DEA police state tango"
August 10, 2013 "Obama Offers Bland Measures for Reining In Surveillance State"
August 10, 2013 "The Surveillance State, You, and the Time Traveling Detectives"
August 10, 2013 "After Guantanamo, Another Injustice"
August 11, 2013 "The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system"
August 12, 2013 "Judge rules NYC's stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional; city vows appeal"
August 12, 2013 "Not-Quite-So-Mandatory Minimums"
August 12, 2013 "Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Will Fix Our Surveillance Problems"
August 12, 2013 "The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency"
August 12, 2013 "Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security officials"
August 12, 2013 "The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet"
August 12, 2013 "Confessed Liar to Congress, James Clapper, Gets to Set Up the 'Independent' Review Over NSA Surveillance"
August 13, 2013 "White House insists James Clapper will not lead NSA surveillance review"
August 13, 2013 "Judge Finds NYPD Stop and Frisk Unconstitutional"
August 13, 2013 "Ending Stop-and-Frisk, Keeping the Racism"
August 13, 2013 "How much data the NSA really gets"
August 14, 2013 "The Death Row Torture of Warren Hill"
August 14, 2013 "Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Sued by Their Torturers"
August 15, 2013 "ACLU: Chicago Housing Authority Violates Fourth Amendment by Drug Testing Tenants"
August 15, 2013 "Six Charts That Explain Why Our Prison System Is So Insane"
August 15, 2013 "Anatomy of an Al Qaeda 'Conference Call'"
August 15, 2013 "Snowden-Leaked NSA Audit Shows Agency Broke Privacy Rules 'Thousands' of Times"
August 16, 2013 "The White House Tried to Rewrite an Entire Interview the NSA Gave to the Washington Post"
August 16, 2013 "Analysing the latest evidence of crimes by the NSA as it spies on Americans"
August 16, 2013 "Are Manning and Snowden patriots? That depends on what we do next."
August 16, 2013 "Stop-and-Frisk: Why We Have Courts"
August 16, 2013 "The Drone Boom"
August 16, 2013 "How to trap a whistleblower"
August 17, 2013 "Key Loophole Allows NSA to Avoid Telling Congress About Thousands of Abuses"
August 18, 2013 "UK Detains Glenn Greenwald's Partner for 9 Hours Under Terrorism Law"
August 19, 2013 "U.S. had advance notice of Britain's plan to detain reporter Glenn Greenwald's partner"
August 19, 2013 "David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face"
August 19, 2013 "Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches"
August 19, 2013 "Frisk Assessment"
August 20, 2013 "Forced Exposure"
August 20, 2013 "David Cameron had advance warning of Miranda detention, No 10 confirms"
August 20, 2013 "How NSA Bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 Years"
August 21, 2013 "Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years"
August 21, 2013 "If You've Ever Traveled to a 'Suspicious' Country, This Secret Program May Target You"
August 21, 2013 "Court Reveals NSA Collected Some 56,000 Communications of Americans Without Terror Links"
August 22, 2013 "NSA Mad Libs: Choose Your Own [Redacted]"
August 22, 2013 "The Real, Terrifying Reason Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda"
August 22, 2013 "NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies"
August 22, 2013 "Review of US surveillance programs to be led by panel of intelligence insiders"
August 23, 2013 "A Long List of What We Know Thanks to Private Manning"
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Recommended Reading
June 20, 2013 "Obama's crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S."
June 20, 2013 "The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant"
June 26, 2013 "Confronting the Growing National (In)Security State"
June 29, 2013 "From the Philippines to the NSA: 111 Years of the US Surveillance State"
July 3, 2013 "Perjury by Permission: Clapper Apologizes for False Testimony and the Congress Remains Silent"
July 7, 2013 "The Classic Military Runaround: Your Tax Dollars at Work Keeping You in the Dark"
July 9, 2013 "Political Violence and Privilege: Why Violent Right-Wing Extremism Doesn't Scare Americans"
July 9, 2013 "Thank you for choosing cyberpunk dystopia"
July 10, 2013 "Thurgood Marshall's Prescient Warning: Don't Gut the 4th Amendment"
July 10, 2013 "The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement"
July 11, 2013 "Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex: How to Turn the U.S.-Mexican Border into a War Zone"
July 11, 2013 "Who is a journalist? Manning trial poses question of vital public interest"
July 13, 2013 "Q&A with Glenn Greenwald: Americans' reaction 'surprising and gratifying'"
July 14, 2013 "Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell"
July 14, 2013 "For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to 'collect it all,' observers say"
July 14, 2013 "Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020"
July 14, 2013 "Obama's secret kill list - the disposition matrix"
July 15, 2013 "The Withered Writ"
July 15, 2013 "Snowden's surveillance leaks open way for challenges to programs' constitutionality"
July 17, 2013 "The Drone That Killed My Grandson"
July 17, 2013 "Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA"
July 17, 2013 "The Eye of Sauron Is the Modern Surveillance State"
July 18, 2013 "What's in it for Obama?"
July 18, 2013 "You may already be a winner in NSA's 'three-degrees' surveillance sweepstakes!"
July 19, 2013 "'What Is That Box?' - When the NSA Shows Up at Your Internet Company"
July 19, 2013 "Bradley Manning 'aiding the enemy' charge is a threat to journalism"
July 19, 2013 "Intelligence chiefs would consider NSA data collection changes - top lawyer"
July 20, 2013 "Report: Germany used key NSA surveillance program"
July 20, 2013 "U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones"
July 21, 2013 "Checking E-Mail Will Require Warrants"
July 21, 2013 "Saying No to the Surveillance State"
July 22, 2013 "Crazy traitor leaker got Congress to notice vast surveillance state"
July 22, 2013 "America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System"
July 22, 2013 "NSA Can Reportedly Track Phones Even When They're Turned Off"
July 22, 2013 "Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans' Email Data"
July 22, 2013 "Leaked Pakistani report confirms high civilian death toll in CIA drone strikes"
ca. July 23, 2013 "'The Truman Show' Was Prophetic"
July 23, 2013 "In-Store Tracking Companies Try to Self-Regulate Privacy"
July 23, 2013 "American Liberalism and the national security state"
July 24, 2013 "Urban Surveillance State Prototype in Oakland Exemplifies 'Security' Mission Creep"
July 24, 2013 "Freed by Snowden Revelations, Wyden Warns About U.S. Surveillance State, 'Secret Laws'"
July 24, 2013 "House narrowly rejects bid to curb NSA surveillance"
July 24, 2013 "Reaction to Airline Passenger's Stripping Protest Lands Officers in First-Amendment School"
July 24, 2013 "Why NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Labor"
July 24, 2013 "License plate readers come with privacy concerns"
July 24, 2013 "Proposal to restrict NSA phone-tracking program defeated"
July 25, 2013 "On Spying, Obama Just Isn't That Into the Democratic Coalition"
July 25, 2013 "Bipartisan support for surveillance limits grows"
July 25, 2013 "NSA growth fueled by need to become more powerful"
July 25, 2013 "Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords"
July 25, 2013 "Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies by the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit"
July 26, 2013 "TSA Is Making Airport Valet Search Your Trunk"
July 26, 2013 "Chris Christie's Attack on the Civil-Liberties Wing of the GOP"
July 26, 2013 "The paradigm shift: How Snowden succeeded in changing the mindset that got us into war"
July 26, 2013 "Who Are We at War With? That's Classified"
July 26, 2013 "Presidential Infallibility"
July 26, 2013 "The Fourth Amendment Was Mortally Wounded by the Drug War Long Before National Security Tried to Kill It"
July 27, 2013 "NSA faces backlash over collecting phone data"
July 28, 2013 "Life as a US drone operator: 'It's like playing a video game for four years'"
July 28, 2013 "Lawmakers Protecting NSA Surveillance Are Awash in Defense Contractor Cash"
July 29, 2013 "Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy"
July 30, 2013 "DUI Checkpoints Net Many More Unlicensed Drivers Than Drunks"
July 30, 2013 "Bradley Manning verdict: guilty of most charges but not 'aiding enemy'"
July 30, 2013 "Manning's conviction seen as making prosecution of WikiLeaks' Assange likely"
July 30, 2013 "Bradley Manning trial: what we know from the leaked WikiLeaks documents"
July 30, 2013 "Has the Gov't Lied on Snooping? Let's Go to the Videotape"
July 30, 2013 "Cops Can Track Cellphones Without Warrants, Appeals Court Rules"
July 31, 2013 "XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'"
July 31, 2013 "NSA Targets Internet Users Who Search for 'Suspicious Stuff,' Newly Revealed Documents Show"
July 31, 2013 "How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say"
July 31, 2013 "White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre - and Will Release No Details"
July 31, 2013 "The Surveillance State Goes Local"
July 31, 2013 "First Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Decision That Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Doesn't Violate Fourth Amendment"
July 31, 2013 "More Fog From the Spy Agencies"
July 31, 2013 "The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership"
June 20, 2013 "The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant"
June 26, 2013 "Confronting the Growing National (In)Security State"
June 29, 2013 "From the Philippines to the NSA: 111 Years of the US Surveillance State"
July 3, 2013 "Perjury by Permission: Clapper Apologizes for False Testimony and the Congress Remains Silent"
July 7, 2013 "The Classic Military Runaround: Your Tax Dollars at Work Keeping You in the Dark"
July 9, 2013 "Political Violence and Privilege: Why Violent Right-Wing Extremism Doesn't Scare Americans"
July 9, 2013 "Thank you for choosing cyberpunk dystopia"
July 10, 2013 "Thurgood Marshall's Prescient Warning: Don't Gut the 4th Amendment"
July 10, 2013 "The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement"
July 11, 2013 "Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex: How to Turn the U.S.-Mexican Border into a War Zone"
July 11, 2013 "Who is a journalist? Manning trial poses question of vital public interest"
July 13, 2013 "Q&A with Glenn Greenwald: Americans' reaction 'surprising and gratifying'"
July 14, 2013 "Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell"
July 14, 2013 "For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to 'collect it all,' observers say"
July 14, 2013 "Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020"
July 14, 2013 "Obama's secret kill list - the disposition matrix"
July 15, 2013 "The Withered Writ"
July 15, 2013 "Snowden's surveillance leaks open way for challenges to programs' constitutionality"
July 17, 2013 "The Drone That Killed My Grandson"
July 17, 2013 "Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA"
July 17, 2013 "The Eye of Sauron Is the Modern Surveillance State"
July 18, 2013 "What's in it for Obama?"
July 18, 2013 "You may already be a winner in NSA's 'three-degrees' surveillance sweepstakes!"
July 19, 2013 "'What Is That Box?' - When the NSA Shows Up at Your Internet Company"
July 19, 2013 "Bradley Manning 'aiding the enemy' charge is a threat to journalism"
July 19, 2013 "Intelligence chiefs would consider NSA data collection changes - top lawyer"
July 20, 2013 "Report: Germany used key NSA surveillance program"
July 20, 2013 "U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones"
July 21, 2013 "Checking E-Mail Will Require Warrants"
July 21, 2013 "Saying No to the Surveillance State"
July 22, 2013 "Crazy traitor leaker got Congress to notice vast surveillance state"
July 22, 2013 "America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System"
July 22, 2013 "NSA Can Reportedly Track Phones Even When They're Turned Off"
July 22, 2013 "Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans' Email Data"
July 22, 2013 "Leaked Pakistani report confirms high civilian death toll in CIA drone strikes"
ca. July 23, 2013 "'The Truman Show' Was Prophetic"
July 23, 2013 "In-Store Tracking Companies Try to Self-Regulate Privacy"
July 23, 2013 "American Liberalism and the national security state"
July 24, 2013 "Urban Surveillance State Prototype in Oakland Exemplifies 'Security' Mission Creep"
July 24, 2013 "Freed by Snowden Revelations, Wyden Warns About U.S. Surveillance State, 'Secret Laws'"
July 24, 2013 "House narrowly rejects bid to curb NSA surveillance"
July 24, 2013 "Reaction to Airline Passenger's Stripping Protest Lands Officers in First-Amendment School"
July 24, 2013 "Why NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Labor"
July 24, 2013 "License plate readers come with privacy concerns"
July 24, 2013 "Proposal to restrict NSA phone-tracking program defeated"
July 25, 2013 "On Spying, Obama Just Isn't That Into the Democratic Coalition"
July 25, 2013 "Bipartisan support for surveillance limits grows"
July 25, 2013 "NSA growth fueled by need to become more powerful"
July 25, 2013 "Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords"
July 25, 2013 "Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies by the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit"
July 26, 2013 "TSA Is Making Airport Valet Search Your Trunk"
July 26, 2013 "Chris Christie's Attack on the Civil-Liberties Wing of the GOP"
July 26, 2013 "The paradigm shift: How Snowden succeeded in changing the mindset that got us into war"
July 26, 2013 "Who Are We at War With? That's Classified"
July 26, 2013 "Presidential Infallibility"
July 26, 2013 "The Fourth Amendment Was Mortally Wounded by the Drug War Long Before National Security Tried to Kill It"
July 27, 2013 "NSA faces backlash over collecting phone data"
July 28, 2013 "Life as a US drone operator: 'It's like playing a video game for four years'"
July 28, 2013 "Lawmakers Protecting NSA Surveillance Are Awash in Defense Contractor Cash"
July 29, 2013 "Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy"
July 30, 2013 "DUI Checkpoints Net Many More Unlicensed Drivers Than Drunks"
July 30, 2013 "Bradley Manning verdict: guilty of most charges but not 'aiding enemy'"
July 30, 2013 "Manning's conviction seen as making prosecution of WikiLeaks' Assange likely"
July 30, 2013 "Bradley Manning trial: what we know from the leaked WikiLeaks documents"
July 30, 2013 "Has the Gov't Lied on Snooping? Let's Go to the Videotape"
July 30, 2013 "Cops Can Track Cellphones Without Warrants, Appeals Court Rules"
July 31, 2013 "XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'"
July 31, 2013 "NSA Targets Internet Users Who Search for 'Suspicious Stuff,' Newly Revealed Documents Show"
July 31, 2013 "How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say"
July 31, 2013 "White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre - and Will Release No Details"
July 31, 2013 "The Surveillance State Goes Local"
July 31, 2013 "First Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Decision That Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Doesn't Violate Fourth Amendment"
July 31, 2013 "More Fog From the Spy Agencies"
July 31, 2013 "The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership"
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Recommended Reading
June 18, 2013 "Rep. Grayson: The NSA claims it can 'acquire the phone records of everyone, everywhere, forever. That is a farce.'"
June 18, 2013 "Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process"
June 19, 2013 "Privacy and democracy"
June 19, 2013 "Surveillance, in a Search for Safety"
June 19, 2013 "If your name is Ahmed or Fatima, you live in fear of NSA surveillance"
June 19, 2013 "You Don't Have the Right to Remain Silent"
June 19, 2013 “Secrets piling up faster than government can declassify some"
June 19, 2013 "Starving for Justice at Gitmo"
June 19, 2013 "Listen Up"
June 20, 2013 "Skype's secret Project Chess reportedly helped NSA access customers' data"
June 20, 2013 "Spying by the Numbers: Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection"
June 20, 2013 "National Security Uber Alles?"
June 21, 2013 "The Surveillance-Marketing Complex, Coming Soon to a Computer Near You"
June 21, 2013 "Is Obama worse than Bush? That's beside the point"
June 21, 2013 "In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail"
June 21, 2013 "Humanity's Oldest Story"
June 22, 2013 "On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden"
June 22, 2013 "US steps up efforts to break Guantanamo hunger strike"
June 22, 2013 "Where Did Our 'Inalienable' Rights Go?"
June 22, 2013 "Secret Surveillance in the Age of Obama"
June 23, 2013 "U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists"
June 24, 2013 "Standing Athwart History Shouting, 'Okay, Spy on Us Constantly'"
June 24, 2013 "Connecting the Dots, Missing the Story"
June 24, 2013 "More Questions for James Comey"
June 25, 2013 "Meet the WikiLeaks Guy Who Got His Gmail Seized by the Feds"
June 25, 2013 "The US is a national security, surveillance, and snitch state"
June 25, 2013 "In memory of George Orwell, tracing the surveillance state from PRISM to the Panopticon"
June 25, 2013 "The Digital Self: Can the 4th Amendment Fit in 140 Characters?"
June 25, 2013 "2 Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information"
June 26, 2013 "The Snowden Effect, Continued"
June 26, 2013 "Stars, Stripes and Surveillance"
June 26, 2013 "US prosecution of Snowden and Manning exceeds international norms"
June 26, 2013 "C.I.A. Report Finds Concerns With Ties to New York Police"
June 27, 2013 "Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say"
June 27, 2013 "NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama"
June 28, 2013 "Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out"
June 28, 2013 "Do You Wanna Know a Secret?"
June 30, 2013 "The NSA is watching. So are Google and Facebook"
June 30, 2013 "Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials"
June 30, 2013 "Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden"
July 1, 2013 "U.S. spying on allies undermines foundation of diplomacy"
July 1, 2013 "How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe"
July 1, 2013 "Friends or Foes? Berlin Must Protect Germans from US Spying"
July 1, 2013 "Privacy Is Lost, and We Are All to Blame"
July 1, 2013 "Interview with NSA expert James Bamford"
July 2, 2013 "Expansion of the Genetic Surveillance State: Taking the Blood of Babies Born to Mississippi Teens"
July 2, 2013 "The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY): Definitions for a New Age"
July 2, 2013 "In the Surveillance State, Whistleblowers Are the New Enemy"
July 2, 2013 "Chief Justice Roberts Is Awesome Power Behind FISA Court"
July 2, 2013 "In Worldwide Surveillance Age, US Has Big Edge"
July 2, 2013 "Rethinking Surveillance"
July 2, 2013 "US drone strikes more deadly to Afghan civilians than manned aircraft -- adviser"
July 2, 2013 "Hints surface that NSA building massive, pervasive surveillance capability"
July 3, 2013 "Department of Homeland Security Report Suggested Arming Border Patrol Drones"
July 3, 2013 "U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement"
July 4, 2013 "The N.S.A.'s Costly European Adventure"
July 5, 2013 "How Cash Secretly Rules Surveillance Policy"
July 5, 2013 "NSA Recruiters Confronted on College Campus"
July 5, 2013 "Actually, If You're a Progressive, You Have to Be Critical of the NSA"
July 5, 2013 "IU expert: Surveillance programs trampling Fourth Amendment"
July 5, 2013 "Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, not a spy -- but do our leaders care?"
July 6, 2013 "The costs of surveillance"
July 6, 2013 "Give me liberty: 'Restore the Fourth' rallies take online protests over NSA spying to the streets"
July 6, 2013 "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A."
July 6, 2013 "The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians"
July 7, 2013 "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S."
July 7, 2013 "Surveillance court 'secret' rulings slaughter Fourth Amendment to help NSA spy"
July 8, 2013 "The Problem With the 'Privacy Moderates'"
July 8, 2013 "What's really at stake in the National Security Agency data sweeps"
July 9, 2013 "How Justice Anthony Kennedy Helped Bring You the Surveillance State"
July 9, 2013 "What Every Presidential Daily Briefing Should Include"
July 9, 2013 "A not-so-clandestine surveillance state"
July 9, 2013 "Witness in Manning trial: No harm to U.S. from leaked files on Gitmo detainees"
July 9, 2013 "Experts: Obama's plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work"
July 10, 2013 "One surveillance camera for every 11 people in Britain, says CCTV survey"
July 10, 2013 "Maine Enacts Pioneering Law Prohibiting Warrantless Cellphone Tracking"
July 10, 2013 "Utah Internet Firm Defies State's Warrantless Subpoena Law"
July 10, 2013 "Xmission: The US Internet Provider That Actually Defends the Fourth Amendment"
July 11, 2013 "Small Utah ISP firm stands up to 'surveillance state' as corporations cower"
July 11, 2013 "How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"
July 12, 2013 "The Doubters Are Wrong: Edward Snowden Is a Game-Changer"
July 12, 2013 "Stop Ray Kelly from leading Homeland Security Department"
July 15, 2013 "The NSA's Massive Data Center Is Coming Online Ahead of Schedule – And It's More Powerful Than You Thought"
July 16, 2013 "Unitarian Church, Gun Groups Join EFF to Sue NSA Over Illegal Surveillance"
July 16, 2013 "Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism"
July 16, 2013 "Insider Threat Policy Equates Leakers, Spies, Terrorists"
July 17, 2013 "License plate cameras track millions of Americans"
July 17, 2013 "NSA FISA Controversy: Intelligence Officials Face Bipartisan Opposition to Surveillance Programs"
July 17, 2013 "The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed"
July 18, 2013 "ACLU Challenges 67 Days of Warrantless Cell Phone Location Tracking"
July 18, 2013 "Tech firms should be allowed to publish more data on US surveillance"
July 18, 2013 "Privacy Coalition Sues NSA to Halt Dragnet Surveillance"
July 18, 2013 "Total Information Awareness: 'Scanning License Plates' Edition"
July 19, 2013 "New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants needed for phone tracking"
July 19, 2013 "NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say"
June 18, 2013 "Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process"
June 19, 2013 "Privacy and democracy"
June 19, 2013 "Surveillance, in a Search for Safety"
June 19, 2013 "If your name is Ahmed or Fatima, you live in fear of NSA surveillance"
June 19, 2013 "You Don't Have the Right to Remain Silent"
June 19, 2013 “Secrets piling up faster than government can declassify some"
June 19, 2013 "Starving for Justice at Gitmo"
June 19, 2013 "Listen Up"
June 20, 2013 "Skype's secret Project Chess reportedly helped NSA access customers' data"
June 20, 2013 "Spying by the Numbers: Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection"
June 20, 2013 "National Security Uber Alles?"
June 21, 2013 "The Surveillance-Marketing Complex, Coming Soon to a Computer Near You"
June 21, 2013 "Is Obama worse than Bush? That's beside the point"
June 21, 2013 "In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail"
June 21, 2013 "Humanity's Oldest Story"
June 22, 2013 "On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden"
June 22, 2013 "US steps up efforts to break Guantanamo hunger strike"
June 22, 2013 "Where Did Our 'Inalienable' Rights Go?"
June 22, 2013 "Secret Surveillance in the Age of Obama"
June 23, 2013 "U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists"
June 24, 2013 "Standing Athwart History Shouting, 'Okay, Spy on Us Constantly'"
June 24, 2013 "Connecting the Dots, Missing the Story"
June 24, 2013 "More Questions for James Comey"
June 25, 2013 "Meet the WikiLeaks Guy Who Got His Gmail Seized by the Feds"
June 25, 2013 "The US is a national security, surveillance, and snitch state"
June 25, 2013 "In memory of George Orwell, tracing the surveillance state from PRISM to the Panopticon"
June 25, 2013 "The Digital Self: Can the 4th Amendment Fit in 140 Characters?"
June 25, 2013 "2 Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information"
June 26, 2013 "The Snowden Effect, Continued"
June 26, 2013 "Stars, Stripes and Surveillance"
June 26, 2013 "US prosecution of Snowden and Manning exceeds international norms"
June 26, 2013 "C.I.A. Report Finds Concerns With Ties to New York Police"
June 27, 2013 "Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say"
June 27, 2013 "NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama"
June 28, 2013 "Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out"
June 28, 2013 "Do You Wanna Know a Secret?"
June 30, 2013 "The NSA is watching. So are Google and Facebook"
June 30, 2013 "Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials"
June 30, 2013 "Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden"
July 1, 2013 "U.S. spying on allies undermines foundation of diplomacy"
July 1, 2013 "How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe"
July 1, 2013 "Friends or Foes? Berlin Must Protect Germans from US Spying"
July 1, 2013 "Privacy Is Lost, and We Are All to Blame"
July 1, 2013 "Interview with NSA expert James Bamford"
July 2, 2013 "Expansion of the Genetic Surveillance State: Taking the Blood of Babies Born to Mississippi Teens"
July 2, 2013 "The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY): Definitions for a New Age"
July 2, 2013 "In the Surveillance State, Whistleblowers Are the New Enemy"
July 2, 2013 "Chief Justice Roberts Is Awesome Power Behind FISA Court"
July 2, 2013 "In Worldwide Surveillance Age, US Has Big Edge"
July 2, 2013 "Rethinking Surveillance"
July 2, 2013 "US drone strikes more deadly to Afghan civilians than manned aircraft -- adviser"
July 2, 2013 "Hints surface that NSA building massive, pervasive surveillance capability"
July 3, 2013 "Department of Homeland Security Report Suggested Arming Border Patrol Drones"
July 3, 2013 "U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement"
July 4, 2013 "The N.S.A.'s Costly European Adventure"
July 5, 2013 "How Cash Secretly Rules Surveillance Policy"
July 5, 2013 "NSA Recruiters Confronted on College Campus"
July 5, 2013 "Actually, If You're a Progressive, You Have to Be Critical of the NSA"
July 5, 2013 "IU expert: Surveillance programs trampling Fourth Amendment"
July 5, 2013 "Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, not a spy -- but do our leaders care?"
July 6, 2013 "The costs of surveillance"
July 6, 2013 "Give me liberty: 'Restore the Fourth' rallies take online protests over NSA spying to the streets"
July 6, 2013 "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A."
July 6, 2013 "The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians"
July 7, 2013 "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S."
July 7, 2013 "Surveillance court 'secret' rulings slaughter Fourth Amendment to help NSA spy"
July 8, 2013 "The Problem With the 'Privacy Moderates'"
July 8, 2013 "What's really at stake in the National Security Agency data sweeps"
July 9, 2013 "How Justice Anthony Kennedy Helped Bring You the Surveillance State"
July 9, 2013 "What Every Presidential Daily Briefing Should Include"
July 9, 2013 "A not-so-clandestine surveillance state"
July 9, 2013 "Witness in Manning trial: No harm to U.S. from leaked files on Gitmo detainees"
July 9, 2013 "Experts: Obama's plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work"
July 10, 2013 "One surveillance camera for every 11 people in Britain, says CCTV survey"
July 10, 2013 "Maine Enacts Pioneering Law Prohibiting Warrantless Cellphone Tracking"
July 10, 2013 "Utah Internet Firm Defies State's Warrantless Subpoena Law"
July 10, 2013 "Xmission: The US Internet Provider That Actually Defends the Fourth Amendment"
July 11, 2013 "Small Utah ISP firm stands up to 'surveillance state' as corporations cower"
July 11, 2013 "How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"
July 12, 2013 "The Doubters Are Wrong: Edward Snowden Is a Game-Changer"
July 12, 2013 "Stop Ray Kelly from leading Homeland Security Department"
July 15, 2013 "The NSA's Massive Data Center Is Coming Online Ahead of Schedule – And It's More Powerful Than You Thought"
July 16, 2013 "Unitarian Church, Gun Groups Join EFF to Sue NSA Over Illegal Surveillance"
July 16, 2013 "Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism"
July 16, 2013 "Insider Threat Policy Equates Leakers, Spies, Terrorists"
July 17, 2013 "License plate cameras track millions of Americans"
July 17, 2013 "NSA FISA Controversy: Intelligence Officials Face Bipartisan Opposition to Surveillance Programs"
July 17, 2013 "The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed"
July 18, 2013 "ACLU Challenges 67 Days of Warrantless Cell Phone Location Tracking"
July 18, 2013 "Tech firms should be allowed to publish more data on US surveillance"
July 18, 2013 "Privacy Coalition Sues NSA to Halt Dragnet Surveillance"
July 18, 2013 "Total Information Awareness: 'Scanning License Plates' Edition"
July 19, 2013 "New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants needed for phone tracking"
July 19, 2013 "NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say"
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Recommended Reading
March 11, 2013 "Glenn Greenwald at Yale Law School: 'With Liberty and Justice for Some'"
March 17, 2013 "NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake on the US Secrecy State as Predator of the First Amendment"
May 28, 2013 "Tennessee Joins States Restricting Drone Flights, Citing Fourth Amendment"
May 29, 2013 "Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Scott's Drug-Testing of State Workers as Too Broad"
May 29, 2013 "Yes, Big Brother Is Watching You"
May 29, 2013 "DoJ Fights to Stop Release of Secret Court Opinion on Unlawful Surveillance of Americans"
May 30, 2013 "Two Crucial Questions for James Comey"
May 31, 2013 "Get Your Hands Off My War on Terror!"
May 31, 2013 "Is Force-Feeding Torture?"
June 3, 2013 "Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest"
June 3, 2013 "The shooting of Ibragim Todashev: Is the lawlessness of Obama's drone policy coming home?"
June 4, 2013 "On DNA, Supreme Court goes too far"
June 5, 2013 "U.N. Free-Speech Envoy Blasts 'Extremely Disturbing' Government Mass Surveillance"
June 5, 2013 "Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won't say why"
June 6, 2013 "FBI places most Americans under surveillance"
June 6, 2013 "NSA Collecting Phone Records for Millions of U.S. Verizon Customers"
June 6, 2013 "Surveillance State Secrecy & the Top Secret Court Order to Hand Over Verizon Call Data to NSA"
June 6, 2013 "Obama's surveillance state"
June 6, 2013 "Newly Revealed PRISM Snooping Makes Verizon Surveillance Look Like Kids' Stuff"
June 6, 2013 "What Is in Bradley Manning's Leaks, Anyway?"
June 6, 2013 "Secret NSA Program Gives the Agency Unprecedented Access to Private Internet Communications"
June 6, 2013 "Congress, White House on NSA Spying: Nothing to See Here"
June 6, 2013 "What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know"
June 6, 2013 "What's the Matter With Metadata?"
June 6, 2013 "U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program"
June 6, 2013 "Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers"
June 7, 2013 "Surveillance state USA: Brave not-so-new world"
June 7, 2013 "The Surveillance State: How We Got Here and What Congress Knew"
June 7, 2013 "NSA's Verizon Spying Order: Fourth Amendment and Big Data on a Collision Course"
June 7, 2013 "Supreme Court's DNA ruling does major damage to the Fourth Amendment"
June 7, 2013 "Secrecy Undermines the Ability of Congress to Function as the Framers Intended"
June 7, 2013 "What a national security state looks like"
June 7, 2013 "Obama and the NSA surveillance state: Who's watching the watchers?"
June 7, 2013 "President Obama Doesn't Welcome Debate, He Actively Thwarts It"
June 7, 2013 "How President Obama Went From Decrying the Surveillance State to Ruling One"
June 7, 2013 "Silicon Valley Joins the Surveillance State"
June 7, 2013 "The Patriot Act must not be used to violate the rights of law-abiding citizens"
June 7, 2013 "US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining"
June 7, 2013 "All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama"
June 7, 2013 "Phone record fury just one sign of how privacy is a thing of the past"
June 7, 2013 "Obama undergoes a philosophical shift on counterterrorism surveillance"
June 7, 2013 "Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program"
June 7, 2013 "Birth of the Surveillance State"
June 7, 2013 "Clapper admits secret NSA surveillance program to access user data"
June 7, 2013 "Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance"
June 7, 2013 "On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation"
June 8, 2013 "Surveillance State: NSA's PRISM Spying on Virtually All Americans"
June 8, 2013 "NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Flouts Fourth Amendment"
June 8, 2013 "Counterterrorism Measures Should Be Put Through the OIRA Benefit-Cost Analysis Wringer"
June 8, 2013 "Is a democratic surveillance state possible?"
June 8, 2013 "Your Smartphone Is Watching You"
June 9, 2013 "How the NSA prevented the Boston bombing"
June 9, 2013 "Creeping surveillance state, creepy conclusions"
June 9, 2013 "The Surveillance State Is Watching You -- And It Has Been for a Long Time"
June 9, 2013 "Life Under the Surveillance State"
June 9, 2013 "Leaker's Employer Is Paid to Maintain Government Secrets"
June 9, 2013 "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How to Pre-Convict and Pre-Punish an American Muslim"
June 10, 2013 "Courts, DOJ tussle over Fourth Amendment violations and the NSA"
June 10, 2013 "Edward Snowden and his like are vital antidotes to the surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "Building America's secret surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "Edward Snowden: Saving us from the United Stasi of America"
June 10, 2013 "The species of oppression by which we are menaced"
June 10, 2013 "Obama's surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror"
June 11, 2013 "Boundless Infomant: The NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data"
June 11, 2013 "'Don't Tread on Me!' Unless You're the National Security Agency"
June 11, 2013 "How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars: Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security Than SEAL Team 6"
June 11, 2013 "A Modern-Day Stasi State"
June 11, 2013 "ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of NSA Phone Spying Program"
June 11, 2013 "Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?"
June 11, 2013 "It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security"
June 11, 2013 "What's the Real Target of our Privatized Surveillance State: Terrorism or Democracy?"
June 12, 2013 "Surveillance scandal signals a creeping police state"
June 12, 2013 "Our Distorted 'National Debate' Over Surveillance"
June 12, 2013 "Why I Don't Care About Edward Snowden"
June 12, 2013 "Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics-Free Zone?"
June 12, 2013 "N.S.A. Scandal: God Save Us From the Lawyers"
June 12, 2013 "Why you should worry about the NSA"
June 12, 2013 "Even Snowden's Detractors See His Leaks as Helpful, Even If They Don't Admit It Outright"
June 13, 2013 "The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State"
June 13, 2013 "The Private-Intelligence Boom, by the Numbers"
June 13, 2013 "The seeds of American fascism -- taking freedom away in order to keep it safe"
June 13, 2013 "O'Reilly Discovers the Dangers of the Surveillance State"
June 13, 2013 "Why Are Massive National Security Breaches So Ridiculously Easy?"
June 13, 2013 "Robert Mueller just wants your metadata"
June 13, 2013 "Senators challenge NSA's claim to have foiled 'dozens' of terror attacks"
June 14, 2013 "President Obama's Insecure National Security State"
June 14, 2013 "FISA Court Called Yahoo Fourth Amendment Objections to PRISM 'Overblown'"
June 14, 2013 "NSA, PRISM, and CISPA: The conspiracy behind the conspiracy"
June 14, 2013 "The Sickening Snowden Backlash"
June 14, 2013 "The Real War on Reality"
June 14, 2013 "Netflix, Facebook -- and the NSA: They're all in it together"
June 15, 2013 "Worried About PRISM? It's Just the Tip of the Surveillance Iceberg"
June 15, 2013 "U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms"
June 16, 2013 "3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so"
June 16, 2013 "The whistleblowers are the new generation of American patriots"
June 16, 2013 "The Making of a Global Security State: The Five Uncontrollable Urges of a Secrecy-Surveillance World"
June 17, 2013 "Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Programs Violate the Constitution"
June 17, 2013 "It's Beyond Ridiculous That Email (But Not Mail) Has Been Left Out of Privacy Laws"
June 17, 2013 "If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head"
June 17, 2013 "The Rise of the Surveillance State (As Predicted in 1967)"
June 17, 2013 "Edward Snowden and the National Security Industrial Complex"
June 17, 2013 "FOIA suit reveals Guantanamo's 'indefinite detainees'"
June 17, 2013 "How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks"
June 18, 2013 "NSA Says Its Spying Programs Helped Thwart 50 Terror Plots Since 2001"
June 18, 2013 "The NSA state of secrecy must end"
June 18, 2013 "Why Are People So Distrustful of Big Government?"
June 18, 2013 "The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings"
June 18, 2013 "How cash secretly rules surveillance policy"
June 19, 2013 "FBI director acknowledges domestic drone use"
June 19, 2013 "The Surveillance State: How the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Go Hand in Hand"
March 17, 2013 "NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake on the US Secrecy State as Predator of the First Amendment"
May 28, 2013 "Tennessee Joins States Restricting Drone Flights, Citing Fourth Amendment"
May 29, 2013 "Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Scott's Drug-Testing of State Workers as Too Broad"
May 29, 2013 "Yes, Big Brother Is Watching You"
May 29, 2013 "DoJ Fights to Stop Release of Secret Court Opinion on Unlawful Surveillance of Americans"
May 30, 2013 "Two Crucial Questions for James Comey"
May 31, 2013 "Get Your Hands Off My War on Terror!"
May 31, 2013 "Is Force-Feeding Torture?"
June 3, 2013 "Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest"
June 3, 2013 "The shooting of Ibragim Todashev: Is the lawlessness of Obama's drone policy coming home?"
June 4, 2013 "On DNA, Supreme Court goes too far"
June 5, 2013 "U.N. Free-Speech Envoy Blasts 'Extremely Disturbing' Government Mass Surveillance"
June 5, 2013 "Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won't say why"
June 6, 2013 "FBI places most Americans under surveillance"
June 6, 2013 "NSA Collecting Phone Records for Millions of U.S. Verizon Customers"
June 6, 2013 "Surveillance State Secrecy & the Top Secret Court Order to Hand Over Verizon Call Data to NSA"
June 6, 2013 "Obama's surveillance state"
June 6, 2013 "Newly Revealed PRISM Snooping Makes Verizon Surveillance Look Like Kids' Stuff"
June 6, 2013 "What Is in Bradley Manning's Leaks, Anyway?"
June 6, 2013 "Secret NSA Program Gives the Agency Unprecedented Access to Private Internet Communications"
June 6, 2013 "Congress, White House on NSA Spying: Nothing to See Here"
June 6, 2013 "What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know"
June 6, 2013 "What's the Matter With Metadata?"
June 6, 2013 "U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program"
June 6, 2013 "Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers"
June 7, 2013 "Surveillance state USA: Brave not-so-new world"
June 7, 2013 "The Surveillance State: How We Got Here and What Congress Knew"
June 7, 2013 "NSA's Verizon Spying Order: Fourth Amendment and Big Data on a Collision Course"
June 7, 2013 "Supreme Court's DNA ruling does major damage to the Fourth Amendment"
June 7, 2013 "Secrecy Undermines the Ability of Congress to Function as the Framers Intended"
June 7, 2013 "What a national security state looks like"
June 7, 2013 "Obama and the NSA surveillance state: Who's watching the watchers?"
June 7, 2013 "President Obama Doesn't Welcome Debate, He Actively Thwarts It"
June 7, 2013 "How President Obama Went From Decrying the Surveillance State to Ruling One"
June 7, 2013 "Silicon Valley Joins the Surveillance State"
June 7, 2013 "The Patriot Act must not be used to violate the rights of law-abiding citizens"
June 7, 2013 "US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining"
June 7, 2013 "All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama"
June 7, 2013 "Phone record fury just one sign of how privacy is a thing of the past"
June 7, 2013 "Obama undergoes a philosophical shift on counterterrorism surveillance"
June 7, 2013 "Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program"
June 7, 2013 "Birth of the Surveillance State"
June 7, 2013 "Clapper admits secret NSA surveillance program to access user data"
June 7, 2013 "Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance"
June 7, 2013 "On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation"
June 8, 2013 "Surveillance State: NSA's PRISM Spying on Virtually All Americans"
June 8, 2013 "NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Flouts Fourth Amendment"
June 8, 2013 "Counterterrorism Measures Should Be Put Through the OIRA Benefit-Cost Analysis Wringer"
June 8, 2013 "Is a democratic surveillance state possible?"
June 8, 2013 "Your Smartphone Is Watching You"
June 9, 2013 "How the NSA prevented the Boston bombing"
June 9, 2013 "Creeping surveillance state, creepy conclusions"
June 9, 2013 "The Surveillance State Is Watching You -- And It Has Been for a Long Time"
June 9, 2013 "Life Under the Surveillance State"
June 9, 2013 "Leaker's Employer Is Paid to Maintain Government Secrets"
June 9, 2013 "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How to Pre-Convict and Pre-Punish an American Muslim"
June 10, 2013 "Courts, DOJ tussle over Fourth Amendment violations and the NSA"
June 10, 2013 "Edward Snowden and his like are vital antidotes to the surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "Building America's secret surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "Edward Snowden: Saving us from the United Stasi of America"
June 10, 2013 "The species of oppression by which we are menaced"
June 10, 2013 "Obama's surveillance state"
June 10, 2013 "The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror"
June 11, 2013 "Boundless Infomant: The NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data"
June 11, 2013 "'Don't Tread on Me!' Unless You're the National Security Agency"
June 11, 2013 "How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars: Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security Than SEAL Team 6"
June 11, 2013 "A Modern-Day Stasi State"
June 11, 2013 "ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of NSA Phone Spying Program"
June 11, 2013 "Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?"
June 11, 2013 "It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security"
June 11, 2013 "What's the Real Target of our Privatized Surveillance State: Terrorism or Democracy?"
June 12, 2013 "Surveillance scandal signals a creeping police state"
June 12, 2013 "Our Distorted 'National Debate' Over Surveillance"
June 12, 2013 "Why I Don't Care About Edward Snowden"
June 12, 2013 "Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics-Free Zone?"
June 12, 2013 "N.S.A. Scandal: God Save Us From the Lawyers"
June 12, 2013 "Why you should worry about the NSA"
June 12, 2013 "Even Snowden's Detractors See His Leaks as Helpful, Even If They Don't Admit It Outright"
June 13, 2013 "The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State"
June 13, 2013 "The Private-Intelligence Boom, by the Numbers"
June 13, 2013 "The seeds of American fascism -- taking freedom away in order to keep it safe"
June 13, 2013 "O'Reilly Discovers the Dangers of the Surveillance State"
June 13, 2013 "Why Are Massive National Security Breaches So Ridiculously Easy?"
June 13, 2013 "Robert Mueller just wants your metadata"
June 13, 2013 "Senators challenge NSA's claim to have foiled 'dozens' of terror attacks"
June 14, 2013 "President Obama's Insecure National Security State"
June 14, 2013 "FISA Court Called Yahoo Fourth Amendment Objections to PRISM 'Overblown'"
June 14, 2013 "NSA, PRISM, and CISPA: The conspiracy behind the conspiracy"
June 14, 2013 "The Sickening Snowden Backlash"
June 14, 2013 "The Real War on Reality"
June 14, 2013 "Netflix, Facebook -- and the NSA: They're all in it together"
June 15, 2013 "Worried About PRISM? It's Just the Tip of the Surveillance Iceberg"
June 15, 2013 "U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms"
June 16, 2013 "3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so"
June 16, 2013 "The whistleblowers are the new generation of American patriots"
June 16, 2013 "The Making of a Global Security State: The Five Uncontrollable Urges of a Secrecy-Surveillance World"
June 17, 2013 "Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Programs Violate the Constitution"
June 17, 2013 "It's Beyond Ridiculous That Email (But Not Mail) Has Been Left Out of Privacy Laws"
June 17, 2013 "If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head"
June 17, 2013 "The Rise of the Surveillance State (As Predicted in 1967)"
June 17, 2013 "Edward Snowden and the National Security Industrial Complex"
June 17, 2013 "FOIA suit reveals Guantanamo's 'indefinite detainees'"
June 17, 2013 "How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks"
June 18, 2013 "NSA Says Its Spying Programs Helped Thwart 50 Terror Plots Since 2001"
June 18, 2013 "The NSA state of secrecy must end"
June 18, 2013 "Why Are People So Distrustful of Big Government?"
June 18, 2013 "The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings"
June 18, 2013 "How cash secretly rules surveillance policy"
June 19, 2013 "FBI director acknowledges domestic drone use"
June 19, 2013 "The Surveillance State: How the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Go Hand in Hand"
Sunday, June 30, 2013
My Public Comment to the TSA
This is the public comment I submitted in response to the TSA's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (mostly off-topic, granted, but I couldn't resist):
It's sad what has happened to this country. At our airports, train stations, subway stations, etc., the TSA treats us all like criminals. We're assumed to be terrorists, strip-searched and patted down until we prove our innocence. This is backwards. The Fourth Amendment stipulates that there must be "probable cause" to search and seize, and all we've done is buy a plane ticket. I should not have to pose for a naked picture or undergo a sexual assault in order to get on an airplane. The TSA workers bark orders at us, bully us, shuffle us through lines like cattle, pose us like mannequins, and treat us without an ounce of dignity. The whole thing is humiliating. Every time I go through airport security, I feel like I'm being processed for prison. I now avoid flying at all costs and recently drove nine hours instead of flying one. TSA screening has not caught a SINGLE terrorist or prevented a SINGLE terrorist attack. It is security theater and a complete waste of taxpayer money.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Who's Paranoid Now?
Our Surveillance State is in the news again, and in a big way. Over the past few days, my Google Alerts have been spitting so many articles and op-eds into my inbox that I'm finding it hard to keep up. Secrecy, spying, and civil liberties violations are the order of the day, all of it perpetrated by a government on steroids.
I won't even try to cover everything here. More and more developments are coming to light even as I write, including the identity of the whistleblower. I will, however, link to Glenn Greenwald's terrific (as usual) piece at the Guardian that got the ball rolling.
I was already worked up about the Supreme Court's June 3 decision in Maryland v. King allowing law enforcement to collect the DNA of people that have been arrested--arrested, not convicted--and check that DNA against a database to see if any other crimes turn up. Never mind that this kind of fishing expedition is strictly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, and good luck getting your record expunged if you happen to be acquitted. Databases are the wet dream of the police state. And clearly "innocent until proven guilty" is a quaint relic of the halcyon pre-9/11 days.
Two days later, Greenwald broke the story about the National Security Agency indiscriminately sweeping up the phone records of millions of Americans in massive suspicionless searches. This revelation was quickly followed by others describing PRISM and BLARNEY, programs used by the government to mine our Internet usage data.
First I want to say that anyone who has been paying attention is not even halfway surprised. (That's not a shopping mall they're building in Bluffdale, Utah.) And I mean paying attention to independent truth-tellers like Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, and Cenk Uygur, not the shallow propaganda of CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the rest of the corporate rah-rah media. Unfortunately, nearly every time I've tried to make the case about our out-of-control National Security State, I've gotten the unmistakable uneasy looks we give the guy on the street corner ranting about conspiracies and black helicopters.
Now I wonder if I'll still get those looks. If nothing else, I guess I'm glad this information is finally filtering out to the mainstream shills of conventional wisdom. Of course, Republican opposition to this kind of surveillance isn't motivated by a principled stand against federal power, just a knee-jerk dislike of President Obama. But I'll take it. Obama is far more likely to respond to their criticisms than those of progressives.
Meanwhile, the president's reaction to the backlash has been characteristically dismissive and condescending. In answering questions from the press, he feigned shock at the notion that American citizens might object to being tracked. "Come on, guys," he seemed to be saying. "We're just protecting you. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Besides, we're only collecting metadata."
This last argument proves how disingenuous Obama is. The metadata he's referring to is, in fact, a rich source of information about you and should enjoy rigorous Fourth Amendment protection, no less than the content of your phone calls and e-mails. Think of it like this: if an e-mail message were a snail-mail letter, metadata would be the envelope it came in. That envelope may seem insignificant, but it actually tells us a lot: who wrote the letter, who received it, where they both live, when the letter was sent, if it was forwarded, returned to sender, etc. Aggregating this metadata--looking at not just one envelope but, say, three months' worth of them--creates a fairly detailed picture of your life. And don't believe for one minute that the NSA will stop at metadata. If there's anything we've learned, it's that whatever technology is capable of doing, the powers-that-be will want to do.
If they don't, the terrorists will win. (Cue the fear-mongering.)
I'm skeptical that the NSA brouhaha will result in any positive policy changes. Even if it did, those changes wouldn't survive the next terrorist attack. This country is incapable of responding to any attack, terrorist or otherwise, in a remotely rational way. But I'm certainly grateful to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden who believe Americans have a right to know what their so-called "public servants" are doing.
I won't even try to cover everything here. More and more developments are coming to light even as I write, including the identity of the whistleblower. I will, however, link to Glenn Greenwald's terrific (as usual) piece at the Guardian that got the ball rolling.
I was already worked up about the Supreme Court's June 3 decision in Maryland v. King allowing law enforcement to collect the DNA of people that have been arrested--arrested, not convicted--and check that DNA against a database to see if any other crimes turn up. Never mind that this kind of fishing expedition is strictly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, and good luck getting your record expunged if you happen to be acquitted. Databases are the wet dream of the police state. And clearly "innocent until proven guilty" is a quaint relic of the halcyon pre-9/11 days.
Two days later, Greenwald broke the story about the National Security Agency indiscriminately sweeping up the phone records of millions of Americans in massive suspicionless searches. This revelation was quickly followed by others describing PRISM and BLARNEY, programs used by the government to mine our Internet usage data.
First I want to say that anyone who has been paying attention is not even halfway surprised. (That's not a shopping mall they're building in Bluffdale, Utah.) And I mean paying attention to independent truth-tellers like Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, and Cenk Uygur, not the shallow propaganda of CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the rest of the corporate rah-rah media. Unfortunately, nearly every time I've tried to make the case about our out-of-control National Security State, I've gotten the unmistakable uneasy looks we give the guy on the street corner ranting about conspiracies and black helicopters.
Now I wonder if I'll still get those looks. If nothing else, I guess I'm glad this information is finally filtering out to the mainstream shills of conventional wisdom. Of course, Republican opposition to this kind of surveillance isn't motivated by a principled stand against federal power, just a knee-jerk dislike of President Obama. But I'll take it. Obama is far more likely to respond to their criticisms than those of progressives.
Meanwhile, the president's reaction to the backlash has been characteristically dismissive and condescending. In answering questions from the press, he feigned shock at the notion that American citizens might object to being tracked. "Come on, guys," he seemed to be saying. "We're just protecting you. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Besides, we're only collecting metadata."
This last argument proves how disingenuous Obama is. The metadata he's referring to is, in fact, a rich source of information about you and should enjoy rigorous Fourth Amendment protection, no less than the content of your phone calls and e-mails. Think of it like this: if an e-mail message were a snail-mail letter, metadata would be the envelope it came in. That envelope may seem insignificant, but it actually tells us a lot: who wrote the letter, who received it, where they both live, when the letter was sent, if it was forwarded, returned to sender, etc. Aggregating this metadata--looking at not just one envelope but, say, three months' worth of them--creates a fairly detailed picture of your life. And don't believe for one minute that the NSA will stop at metadata. If there's anything we've learned, it's that whatever technology is capable of doing, the powers-that-be will want to do.
If they don't, the terrorists will win. (Cue the fear-mongering.)
I'm skeptical that the NSA brouhaha will result in any positive policy changes. Even if it did, those changes wouldn't survive the next terrorist attack. This country is incapable of responding to any attack, terrorist or otherwise, in a remotely rational way. But I'm certainly grateful to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden who believe Americans have a right to know what their so-called "public servants" are doing.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Recommended Reading
August 11, 2009 "Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving to Remote Village"
October 2, 2012 "DHS 'fusion centers' portrayed as pools of ineptitude, civil liberties intrusions"
April 4, 2013 "'Liberals': Partisan or Principled?"
April 8, 2013 "The Drone Fallacy: The Ugly Truth about Drone Warfare"
April 8, 2013 "Big brother or better police work? New technology automatically runs license plates … of everyone"
April 10, 2013 "Beware Lawyers Bearing AUMF Fix"
April 12, 2013 "Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings"
April 15, 2013 "Perfect security? Perfect surveillance state"
April 15, 2013 "The guilt by association exception to the Fourth Amendment"
April 15, 2013 "Guantanamo has become a monument to American cowardice"
April 16, 2013 "Building a Surveillance State..."
April 16, 2013 "U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes"
April 17, 2013 "Obama won't send witness to Senate to explain legality of drone war"
April 17, 2013 "Whistleblowing now akin to treason"
April 18, 2013 "CISPA Passes U.S. House: Death of the Fourth Amendment?"
April 18, 2013 "The Constitution and Blood Testing"
April 18, 2013 "Senators Urging IRS to Publicly Pledge Not to Snoop"
April 19, 2013 "CISPA, the Fourth Amendment, and you"
April 19, 2013 "Torture Report"
April 20, 2013 "CISPA: The Corporate Insecurity Piracy Act"
April 20, 2013 "Last British resident in Guantanamo 'may never be allowed home'"
April 21, 2013 "Fourth Amendment: No unreasonable searches"
April 23, 2013 "Stop Unreasonable Electronic Searches and Seizures"
April 24, 2013 "'Go to Sleep or I Will Call the Planes'"
April 24, 2013 "U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance"
April 24, 2013 "Despair Drives Guantanamo Detainees to Revolt"
April 25, 2013 "Black, Brown, and Blue"
April 26, 2013 "Cybersecurity bill CISPA tramples on Fourth Amendment rights"
April 26, 2013 "Face-Off Over Warrantless Cellphone Tracking at House Judiciary Committee Hearing"
April 26, 2013 "Guantanamo reveals America's true character - how one cowboy president was replaced by another"
April 29, 2013 "Gov. documents evidence growing surveillance state"
April 29, 2013 "Lady Liberty's Watching You"
April 29, 2013 "Are the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisks Violating the Constitution?"
April 30, 2013 "Google's Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"
April 30, 2013 "Mayor Bloomberg: If You Dare Criticize the NYPD, the Terrorists Win"
April 30, 2013 "Amid Hunger Strike, Obama Renews Push to Close Cuba Prison"
April 30, 2013 "Can Obama Stop the Uprising at Gitmo?"
May 2, 2013 "US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantanamo, lawyer says"
May 2, 2013 "Surveillance State Unchecked: Secret Spy Court Rejected Zero Requests in 2012"
May 2, 2013 "As long as it stays open, Guantanamo Bay is a stain on America's reputation"
May 3, 2013 "The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work"
May 4, 2013 "Former FBI Agent Confirms the Surveillance State Is Real"
May 6, 2013 "The Boston Bombing, the Right of Privacy and Surveillance Cameras"
May 6, 2013 "Remote Control: Our Drone Delusion"
May 7, 2013 "U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws"
May 7, 2013 "Drones Over America"
May 7, 2013 "America's 14 Most Pissed-Off Comments on the TSA's Airport Body Scanners"
May 8, 2013 "Is the US already a complete surveillance state?"
May 8, 2013 "DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats"
May 8, 2013 "The routine paranoia of the national security state"
May 8, 2013 "ACLU Obtains Documents Showing FBI Doesn't Always Get Warrants Before Reading Emails"
May 9, 2013 "Stingray Cellphone Tracking Warrant in Daniel David Rigmaiden Case Was Proper, Judge Rules"
May 9, 2013 "Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man"
May 10, 2013 "Is Law Enforcement Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?"
May 10, 2013 "Justice Department Complies With FOIA by Releasing Completely Redacted Document"
May 12, 2013 "Will Pakistan finally stand up against illegal US drone attacks?"
May 13, 2013 "AP: Justice Department seizure of phone records an unprecedented intrusion"
May 13, 2013 "Here's which tech companies won't turn your emails over to the feds"
May 13, 2013 "Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed"
May 13, 2013 "Inside America's Dirty Wars"
May 14, 2013 "Lawmakers jump on DOJ for AP spying"
May 14, 2013 "How to Stop the FBI from Reading Your Email"
May 14, 2013 "In AP surveillance case, the real scandal is what's legal"
May 14, 2013 "Justice Dept. Defends Seizure of Phone Records"
May 14, 2013 "The Law Behind the A.P. Phone-Record Scandal"
May 14, 2013 "Leak Investigations Are an Assault on the Press, and on Democracy, Too"
May 14, 2013 "Obama's War on Journalists"
May 15, 2013 "Federal Judge: Only Powered-Off Cell Phones Deserve Privacy Protections"
May 15, 2013 'The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties"
May 16, 2013 "Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet 'Wiretaps'"
May 16, 2013 "Debating the Legal Basis for the War on Terror"
May 17, 2013 "Don't want to be tracked? Turn cellphone off, say magistrate"
May 17, 2013 "Congress Questions Google Over Glass Privacy Concerns, Demands Answers by June 14"
May 17, 2013 "The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored"
May 18, 2013 "If the press isn't free, neither are you"
May 20, 2013 "Preventive Measures"
May 20, 2013 "Obama's Other Secret War"
May 20, 2013 "Under Nixon, Reagan or the Bushes, We Wouldn't Have Tolerated Obama's Surveillance State"
May 20, 2013 "An increasingly unchecked surveillance state"
May 21, 2013 "What My Dog Taught Me About the New Surveillance State"
May 21, 2013 "How the Obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism"
May 21, 2013 "ACLU Lawsuit Takes on FBI Surveillance of News Organizations"
May 21, 2013 "Governor's proposal shreds fourth amendment"
May 21, 2013 "US becomes surveillance state with no privacy rights"
May 21, 2013 "How the Government Targeted Occupy"
May 22, 2013 "Drone strikes: Four American citizens killed in drone strikes"
May 22, 2013 "Obama's 301 Drone Strikes"
May 22, 2013 "The Heroic New York City Cop Who's Trying to Stop Stop-and-Frisk"
May 22, 2013 "Bill Would Require Warrant for Police Cell Phone Tracking"
May 22, 2013 "The Obama Administration Finally Admits Killing 4 Americans"
May 22, 2013 "US rendition: every suspected flight mapped"
May 22, 2013 "Terrorism and imagination"
May 22, 2013 "'Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press'"
May 23, 2013 "Government Plan to Build 'Back Doors' for Online Surveillance Could Create Dangerous Vulnerabilities"
May 24, 2013 "Is this really a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America?"
May 24, 2013 "When Congress Voted Down the Fourth Amendment"
May 27, 2013 "Silencing the Whistle-Blowers"
October 2, 2012 "DHS 'fusion centers' portrayed as pools of ineptitude, civil liberties intrusions"
April 4, 2013 "'Liberals': Partisan or Principled?"
April 8, 2013 "The Drone Fallacy: The Ugly Truth about Drone Warfare"
April 8, 2013 "Big brother or better police work? New technology automatically runs license plates … of everyone"
April 10, 2013 "Beware Lawyers Bearing AUMF Fix"
April 12, 2013 "Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings"
April 15, 2013 "Perfect security? Perfect surveillance state"
April 15, 2013 "The guilt by association exception to the Fourth Amendment"
April 15, 2013 "Guantanamo has become a monument to American cowardice"
April 16, 2013 "Building a Surveillance State..."
April 16, 2013 "U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes"
April 17, 2013 "Obama won't send witness to Senate to explain legality of drone war"
April 17, 2013 "Whistleblowing now akin to treason"
April 18, 2013 "CISPA Passes U.S. House: Death of the Fourth Amendment?"
April 18, 2013 "The Constitution and Blood Testing"
April 18, 2013 "Senators Urging IRS to Publicly Pledge Not to Snoop"
April 19, 2013 "CISPA, the Fourth Amendment, and you"
April 19, 2013 "Torture Report"
April 20, 2013 "CISPA: The Corporate Insecurity Piracy Act"
April 20, 2013 "Last British resident in Guantanamo 'may never be allowed home'"
April 21, 2013 "Fourth Amendment: No unreasonable searches"
April 23, 2013 "Stop Unreasonable Electronic Searches and Seizures"
April 24, 2013 "'Go to Sleep or I Will Call the Planes'"
April 24, 2013 "U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance"
April 24, 2013 "Despair Drives Guantanamo Detainees to Revolt"
April 25, 2013 "Black, Brown, and Blue"
April 26, 2013 "Cybersecurity bill CISPA tramples on Fourth Amendment rights"
April 26, 2013 "Face-Off Over Warrantless Cellphone Tracking at House Judiciary Committee Hearing"
April 26, 2013 "Guantanamo reveals America's true character - how one cowboy president was replaced by another"
April 29, 2013 "Gov. documents evidence growing surveillance state"
April 29, 2013 "Lady Liberty's Watching You"
April 29, 2013 "Are the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisks Violating the Constitution?"
April 30, 2013 "Google's Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets"
April 30, 2013 "Mayor Bloomberg: If You Dare Criticize the NYPD, the Terrorists Win"
April 30, 2013 "Amid Hunger Strike, Obama Renews Push to Close Cuba Prison"
April 30, 2013 "Can Obama Stop the Uprising at Gitmo?"
May 2, 2013 "US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantanamo, lawyer says"
May 2, 2013 "Surveillance State Unchecked: Secret Spy Court Rejected Zero Requests in 2012"
May 2, 2013 "As long as it stays open, Guantanamo Bay is a stain on America's reputation"
May 3, 2013 "The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work"
May 4, 2013 "Former FBI Agent Confirms the Surveillance State Is Real"
May 6, 2013 "The Boston Bombing, the Right of Privacy and Surveillance Cameras"
May 6, 2013 "Remote Control: Our Drone Delusion"
May 7, 2013 "U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws"
May 7, 2013 "Drones Over America"
May 7, 2013 "America's 14 Most Pissed-Off Comments on the TSA's Airport Body Scanners"
May 8, 2013 "Is the US already a complete surveillance state?"
May 8, 2013 "DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats"
May 8, 2013 "The routine paranoia of the national security state"
May 8, 2013 "ACLU Obtains Documents Showing FBI Doesn't Always Get Warrants Before Reading Emails"
May 9, 2013 "Stingray Cellphone Tracking Warrant in Daniel David Rigmaiden Case Was Proper, Judge Rules"
May 9, 2013 "Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man"
May 10, 2013 "Is Law Enforcement Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?"
May 10, 2013 "Justice Department Complies With FOIA by Releasing Completely Redacted Document"
May 12, 2013 "Will Pakistan finally stand up against illegal US drone attacks?"
May 13, 2013 "AP: Justice Department seizure of phone records an unprecedented intrusion"
May 13, 2013 "Here's which tech companies won't turn your emails over to the feds"
May 13, 2013 "Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed"
May 13, 2013 "Inside America's Dirty Wars"
May 14, 2013 "Lawmakers jump on DOJ for AP spying"
May 14, 2013 "How to Stop the FBI from Reading Your Email"
May 14, 2013 "In AP surveillance case, the real scandal is what's legal"
May 14, 2013 "Justice Dept. Defends Seizure of Phone Records"
May 14, 2013 "The Law Behind the A.P. Phone-Record Scandal"
May 14, 2013 "Leak Investigations Are an Assault on the Press, and on Democracy, Too"
May 14, 2013 "Obama's War on Journalists"
May 15, 2013 "Federal Judge: Only Powered-Off Cell Phones Deserve Privacy Protections"
May 15, 2013 'The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties"
May 16, 2013 "Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet 'Wiretaps'"
May 16, 2013 "Debating the Legal Basis for the War on Terror"
May 17, 2013 "Don't want to be tracked? Turn cellphone off, say magistrate"
May 17, 2013 "Congress Questions Google Over Glass Privacy Concerns, Demands Answers by June 14"
May 17, 2013 "The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored"
May 18, 2013 "If the press isn't free, neither are you"
May 20, 2013 "Preventive Measures"
May 20, 2013 "Obama's Other Secret War"
May 20, 2013 "Under Nixon, Reagan or the Bushes, We Wouldn't Have Tolerated Obama's Surveillance State"
May 20, 2013 "An increasingly unchecked surveillance state"
May 21, 2013 "What My Dog Taught Me About the New Surveillance State"
May 21, 2013 "How the Obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism"
May 21, 2013 "ACLU Lawsuit Takes on FBI Surveillance of News Organizations"
May 21, 2013 "Governor's proposal shreds fourth amendment"
May 21, 2013 "US becomes surveillance state with no privacy rights"
May 21, 2013 "How the Government Targeted Occupy"
May 22, 2013 "Drone strikes: Four American citizens killed in drone strikes"
May 22, 2013 "Obama's 301 Drone Strikes"
May 22, 2013 "The Heroic New York City Cop Who's Trying to Stop Stop-and-Frisk"
May 22, 2013 "Bill Would Require Warrant for Police Cell Phone Tracking"
May 22, 2013 "The Obama Administration Finally Admits Killing 4 Americans"
May 22, 2013 "US rendition: every suspected flight mapped"
May 22, 2013 "Terrorism and imagination"
May 22, 2013 "'Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press'"
May 23, 2013 "Government Plan to Build 'Back Doors' for Online Surveillance Could Create Dangerous Vulnerabilities"
May 24, 2013 "Is this really a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America?"
May 24, 2013 "When Congress Voted Down the Fourth Amendment"
May 27, 2013 "Silencing the Whistle-Blowers"
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Recommended Reading
September 18, 2012 "The Pros and Cons of Gathering Biometric Data"
December 2012 "Yours, Mine, but Not Ours"
January 3, 2013 "Misplaced Secrecy on Targeted Killings"
January 18, 2013 "Bill Maher on Gun Rights vs. Privacy: Second Amendment Isn't Under Attack, Everything Else Is"
February 11, 2013 "'Imagine the Worst Possible Scenario': Why a Guantanamo Prosecutor Withdrew From the Case"
February 11, 2013 "The Creepy, Intrusive Ways You're Being Spied on at Work"
February 28, 2013 "The Google Glass feature no one is talking about"
March 2013 "Unmanned Flight: The Drones Come Home"
March 5, 2013 "Drones are coming home to skies near you: feel safer?"
March 5, 2013 "American Militarism: Costs and Consequences"
March 6, 2013 "Barack Obama 'has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil'"
March 6, 2013 "The Militarization of the National Security State"
March 6, 2013 "Administration debates stretching 9/11 law to go after new al-Qaeda offshoots"
March 7, 2013 "Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You"
March 7, 2013 "The Internet's Patriot Act"
March 8, 2013 "The Drone Question Obama Hasn't Answered"
March 8, 2013 "The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"
March 8, 2013 "Visions of Drones Swarming U.S. Skies Hit Bipartisan Nerve"
March 9, 2013 "The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks"
March 10, 2013 "Report: Obama still secretive despite transparency vow"
March 10, 2013 "Fear, Corporate Profiteering, and Government Expansion of the Security Surveillance State on the US Borderland"
March 11, 2013 "The Climate of Fear Created by the NYPD's Pervasive Surveillance of Muslim Communities"
March 11, 2013 "Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning's Statement"
March 12, 2013 "Google Glass Will Magnify Privacy Debates - and That's a Good Thing"
March 13, 2013 "More airport madness: what will your risk rating be?"
March 13, 2013 "Will Congress Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg"
March 13, 2013 "Obama Administration Excludes National Security Policies from Commitment to Transparency"
March 14, 2013 "Prisoner protest at Guantanamo Bay stains Obama's human rights record"
March 14, 2013 "After Boeing objects, lawmakers put drone bill on hold"
March 14, 2013 "Exclusive: Court Docs Reveal Blackwater's Secret CIA Past"
March 14, 2013 "Obama's secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion"
March 15, 2013 "Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them"
March 15, 2013 "In Questioning Brennan, Intelligence Committee Showed Little"
March 16, 2013 "The Internet is a surveillance state"
March 16, 2013 "Court Finds FBI-Issued National Security Letters 'Significantly Infringe Upon Speech'"
March 18, 2013 "Fourth Amendment makes two digital privacy headlines"
March 19, 2013 "America Is Asking All the Wrong Questions About Drones"
March 19, 2013 "Exclusive: No More Drones for CIA"
March 20, 2013 "Lawmakers Ponder the Dawn of a Drone-Surveillance State"
March 21, 2013 "Money Requested for New Prison at Guantanamo"
March 21, 2013 "U.S. cyber plan calls for private-sector scans of Net"
March 21, 2013 "The persecution of Barrett Brown – and how to fight it"
March 22, 2013 "'NATO 3' Oral Argument Unfolds on Illinois Terrorism Statute's Constitutionality"
March 24, 2013 "What Al Qaeda Couldn't Defeat: The Military-Political Bureaucracy"
March 24, 2013 "Drone Warfare is Neither Cheap, Nor Surgical, Nor Decisive: The Ever-Destructive Dreams of Air Power Enthusiasts"
March 25, 2013 "Drone war: Out of sight, out of mind"
March 25, 2013 "David Gregory irate about soda, meh on civil rights"
March 26, 2013 "Supreme Court Draws Fourth Amendment Line at Drug-Sniffing Dogs at Your Door"
March 26, 2013 "FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as 'Top Priority' for 2013"
March 26, 2013 "The moat is part of the castle"
March 27, 2013 "Keeping Secrets from Society"
March 27, 2013 "Spies and Big Business Fight Cyberattacks"
March 27, 2013 "DOJ Hid Routine Use of 'Stingray' Surveillance Technology from Federal Magistrate Judges"
March 28, 2013 "Why Mayor Bloomberg's vision of a drone-filled city doesn't fly"
March 28, 2013 "Supreme Court Says a Dog's Sniff Can Be a Fourth Amendment Intrusion"
March 29, 2013 "Ex-White House Official Joins Group Fighting 'Excessive' Online Privacy Laws"
March 29, 2013 "Domestic drones and their unique dangers"
March 31, 2013 "The message sent by America's invisible victims"
March 31, 2013 "Fourth Amendment creates new fault lines"
April 1, 2013 "Can Voters Fight Domestic Drones at the Ballot Box?"
April 2, 2013 "Fourth Amendment Searches: DNA Collection"
April 2, 2013 "New York needs the NYPD to stop stop-and-frisk – and stop it now"
April 2, 2013 "Public Housing as a 'Penal Colony'"
April 2, 2013 "Suddenly, NYPD doesn't love surveillance anymore"
April 3, 2013 "Court Agrees to Consider ACLU Arguments That Fourth Amendment Requires Warrant For Access to Prescription Database"
April 3, 2013 "Appeals court restricts school searches of cellphones"
April 4, 2013 "Ohio Aerial Surveillance System Moving Forward Without Having to Wait For FAA Drone Rules"
April 4, 2013 "Google will fight secretive national security letters in court"
April 4, 2013 "Whatever Happened to the Obama Administration's Review of NYPD Spying?"
April 4, 2013 "Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance"
April 4, 2013 "Time to Gut CFAA Like the Rotten Fish It Is: Protests and Reform Proposals for Computer Crime"
April 5, 2013 "True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths"
April 6, 2013 "The Fourth Amendment and Warrantless DNA Testing"
April 6, 2013 "A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood"
April 7, 2013 "Digital battlefield opens to fourth amendment border legislation"
April 7, 2013 "Targeting Killing Comes to Define War on Terror"
April 8, 2013 "Did the CIA's Drone Program in Pakistan Begin With a 'Bargaining Chip' Killing?"
April 9, 2013 "License plate readers threaten privacy"
April 9, 2013 "Stingrays Can Do More Than You Ever Imagined: Law Enforcement, Cellphone Interceptions, and Countermeasures"
April 9, 2013 "Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting"
April 9, 2013 "Obama's drone war kills 'others,' not just al Qaida leaders"
April 10, 2013 "New Film Explores Obama's War on Whistleblowers and the Free Press"
April 10, 2013 "The IRS Doesn't Think the Fourth Amendment Applies to Your Email"
April 10, 2013 "IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant"
April 10, 2013 "Drone Justice is Blind"
April 10, 2013 "Manning trial judge to US: prove suspect knew leaks would 'aid enemy'"
April 10, 2013 "Sequestering the War on Terror"
April 11, 2013 "State Senate Passes Law On Protecting Citizen Privacy From Unmanned Drones"
April 11, 2013 "The Roberts Court"
April 11, 2013 "Can We Kiss Internet Privacy Goodbye?"
December 2012 "Yours, Mine, but Not Ours"
January 3, 2013 "Misplaced Secrecy on Targeted Killings"
January 18, 2013 "Bill Maher on Gun Rights vs. Privacy: Second Amendment Isn't Under Attack, Everything Else Is"
February 11, 2013 "'Imagine the Worst Possible Scenario': Why a Guantanamo Prosecutor Withdrew From the Case"
February 11, 2013 "The Creepy, Intrusive Ways You're Being Spied on at Work"
February 28, 2013 "The Google Glass feature no one is talking about"
March 2013 "Unmanned Flight: The Drones Come Home"
March 5, 2013 "Drones are coming home to skies near you: feel safer?"
March 5, 2013 "American Militarism: Costs and Consequences"
March 6, 2013 "Barack Obama 'has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil'"
March 6, 2013 "The Militarization of the National Security State"
March 6, 2013 "Administration debates stretching 9/11 law to go after new al-Qaeda offshoots"
March 7, 2013 "Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You"
March 7, 2013 "The Internet's Patriot Act"
March 8, 2013 "The Drone Question Obama Hasn't Answered"
March 8, 2013 "The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"
March 8, 2013 "Visions of Drones Swarming U.S. Skies Hit Bipartisan Nerve"
March 9, 2013 "The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks"
March 10, 2013 "Report: Obama still secretive despite transparency vow"
March 10, 2013 "Fear, Corporate Profiteering, and Government Expansion of the Security Surveillance State on the US Borderland"
March 11, 2013 "The Climate of Fear Created by the NYPD's Pervasive Surveillance of Muslim Communities"
March 11, 2013 "Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning's Statement"
March 12, 2013 "Google Glass Will Magnify Privacy Debates - and That's a Good Thing"
March 13, 2013 "More airport madness: what will your risk rating be?"
March 13, 2013 "Will Congress Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg"
March 13, 2013 "Obama Administration Excludes National Security Policies from Commitment to Transparency"
March 14, 2013 "Prisoner protest at Guantanamo Bay stains Obama's human rights record"
March 14, 2013 "After Boeing objects, lawmakers put drone bill on hold"
March 14, 2013 "Exclusive: Court Docs Reveal Blackwater's Secret CIA Past"
March 14, 2013 "Obama's secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion"
March 15, 2013 "Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them"
March 15, 2013 "In Questioning Brennan, Intelligence Committee Showed Little"
March 16, 2013 "The Internet is a surveillance state"
March 16, 2013 "Court Finds FBI-Issued National Security Letters 'Significantly Infringe Upon Speech'"
March 18, 2013 "Fourth Amendment makes two digital privacy headlines"
March 19, 2013 "America Is Asking All the Wrong Questions About Drones"
March 19, 2013 "Exclusive: No More Drones for CIA"
March 20, 2013 "Lawmakers Ponder the Dawn of a Drone-Surveillance State"
March 21, 2013 "Money Requested for New Prison at Guantanamo"
March 21, 2013 "U.S. cyber plan calls for private-sector scans of Net"
March 21, 2013 "The persecution of Barrett Brown – and how to fight it"
March 22, 2013 "'NATO 3' Oral Argument Unfolds on Illinois Terrorism Statute's Constitutionality"
March 24, 2013 "What Al Qaeda Couldn't Defeat: The Military-Political Bureaucracy"
March 24, 2013 "Drone Warfare is Neither Cheap, Nor Surgical, Nor Decisive: The Ever-Destructive Dreams of Air Power Enthusiasts"
March 25, 2013 "Drone war: Out of sight, out of mind"
March 25, 2013 "David Gregory irate about soda, meh on civil rights"
March 26, 2013 "Supreme Court Draws Fourth Amendment Line at Drug-Sniffing Dogs at Your Door"
March 26, 2013 "FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as 'Top Priority' for 2013"
March 26, 2013 "The moat is part of the castle"
March 27, 2013 "Keeping Secrets from Society"
March 27, 2013 "Spies and Big Business Fight Cyberattacks"
March 27, 2013 "DOJ Hid Routine Use of 'Stingray' Surveillance Technology from Federal Magistrate Judges"
March 28, 2013 "Why Mayor Bloomberg's vision of a drone-filled city doesn't fly"
March 28, 2013 "Supreme Court Says a Dog's Sniff Can Be a Fourth Amendment Intrusion"
March 29, 2013 "Ex-White House Official Joins Group Fighting 'Excessive' Online Privacy Laws"
March 29, 2013 "Domestic drones and their unique dangers"
March 31, 2013 "The message sent by America's invisible victims"
March 31, 2013 "Fourth Amendment creates new fault lines"
April 1, 2013 "Can Voters Fight Domestic Drones at the Ballot Box?"
April 2, 2013 "Fourth Amendment Searches: DNA Collection"
April 2, 2013 "New York needs the NYPD to stop stop-and-frisk – and stop it now"
April 2, 2013 "Public Housing as a 'Penal Colony'"
April 2, 2013 "Suddenly, NYPD doesn't love surveillance anymore"
April 3, 2013 "Court Agrees to Consider ACLU Arguments That Fourth Amendment Requires Warrant For Access to Prescription Database"
April 3, 2013 "Appeals court restricts school searches of cellphones"
April 4, 2013 "Ohio Aerial Surveillance System Moving Forward Without Having to Wait For FAA Drone Rules"
April 4, 2013 "Google will fight secretive national security letters in court"
April 4, 2013 "Whatever Happened to the Obama Administration's Review of NYPD Spying?"
April 4, 2013 "Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance"
April 4, 2013 "Time to Gut CFAA Like the Rotten Fish It Is: Protests and Reform Proposals for Computer Crime"
April 5, 2013 "True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths"
April 6, 2013 "The Fourth Amendment and Warrantless DNA Testing"
April 6, 2013 "A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood"
April 7, 2013 "Digital battlefield opens to fourth amendment border legislation"
April 7, 2013 "Targeting Killing Comes to Define War on Terror"
April 8, 2013 "Did the CIA's Drone Program in Pakistan Begin With a 'Bargaining Chip' Killing?"
April 9, 2013 "License plate readers threaten privacy"
April 9, 2013 "Stingrays Can Do More Than You Ever Imagined: Law Enforcement, Cellphone Interceptions, and Countermeasures"
April 9, 2013 "Buy Signal: Facebook Widens Data Targeting"
April 9, 2013 "Obama's drone war kills 'others,' not just al Qaida leaders"
April 10, 2013 "New Film Explores Obama's War on Whistleblowers and the Free Press"
April 10, 2013 "The IRS Doesn't Think the Fourth Amendment Applies to Your Email"
April 10, 2013 "IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant"
April 10, 2013 "Drone Justice is Blind"
April 10, 2013 "Manning trial judge to US: prove suspect knew leaks would 'aid enemy'"
April 10, 2013 "Sequestering the War on Terror"
April 11, 2013 "State Senate Passes Law On Protecting Citizen Privacy From Unmanned Drones"
April 11, 2013 "The Roberts Court"
April 11, 2013 "Can We Kiss Internet Privacy Goodbye?"
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