Recommended Reading

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"

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"

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"