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PRISM: We welcome this debate

Wow, I love writing about the government. You know how some drivers slow down for an accident on the highway? I like to watch hypocrites squirm. They don’t know they’re hypocrites. They don’t even know...

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Edward Snowden vs. NSA

The issue of domestic surveillance is not principally about privacy, much as President Obama would like to define it that way. It is about a government that violates the Consitution in secret, then...

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Church leadership to resist a lawless government; Benjamin C. Bradlee

Here are some words of encouragement for Reverend Rick Hoyt, whose First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles leads nineteen other organizations in a lawsuit against the NSA for violations of the first,...

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“We target very specifically areas of concern”

“I can give assurances to the public in Europe and around the world that we’re not going around snooping at people’s e-mails or listening to their phone calls,” Obama said. “What we try to do is target...

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Elmer Fudd scares the hell out of us

I love reports like this! Watch the biggest threat to our national security warn that the government shutdown threatens our national security: Top official warns shutdown is ‘dreamland’ for foreign...

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“I swear to tell the truth,” the wicked truth

If a liar swears an oath to tell the truth, does that make it more likely the liar will actually tell the truth? If listeners know the witness is a liar, does the oath make it more likely the audience...

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NSA to Angela Merkel: “You’ve become a public distraction”

Now Angela Merkel discovers Washington set up a listening post in Berlin to monitor her cell phone. How brazen can you be? What are those people at the NSA thinking? Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany....

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Clapper’s Crapper

Last week, when James Clapper and Keith Alexander testified contra Snowden yet again, the question arose whether the NSA had “gone rogue”. That’s a term that comes to us from Jason Bourne, and many...

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Open letter to the people of Brazil from Edward Snowden

An open letter to the people of Brazil, from Edward Snowden: Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government’s National Security Agency to stand in front of a...

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NSA believes U.S. law prohibits some intelligence activities!

Here’s another interesting report from the Snowden files. Apparently the Australians helped the NSA with surveillance of a Chicago law firm that assisted the Indonesian government in trade talks:...

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Optic Nerve, central symbol of the surveillance state

The Snowden files get better and better. This week we have a report that the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ – Government Communications Headquarters – collaborated on a project called Optic Nerve. The purpose...

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Corruption and secrecy in software systems and foreign affairs

As we think about the issue of truth and truth telling in the context of government secrecy, we encounter another interesting connection: that between transparency and security. We associate...

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What have we learned from Edward Snowden’s disclosures?

A few things we have learned from Edward Snowden’s disclosures, and their aftermath: U. S. intelligence officials know that we think they are doing something wrong, but they don’t think they are doing...

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Thankful we have the NSA to protect us

“NSA is a professional foreign-intelligence organization with a highly trained workforce, including brave and dedicated men and women from our armed forces… As we have said before, the agency has zero...

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Further thoughts on Snowden, NSA, and 9/11

Greenwald to publish list of U. S. citizens NSA spied on When I first read that Glenn Greenwald plans to …Continue reading →

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National security in the twenty-first century

Without fail, secrecy breeds distrust. When you withhold information from other people, who ought to know what you know, you keep …Continue reading →

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Federal court: Snowden was right

A U. S. federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, May 7, that Snowden is correct: NSA collection of phone records …Continue reading →

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The phone company is omni-potent

I’d say the NSA, FBI, and CIA could learn some fine points about customer service from Ernestine the switchboard operator. Here’s …Continue reading →

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Corroboration, credibility, and numbers

No strength of numbers can unite people who know Snowden, Drake, and Manning speak the truth, who can corroborate what they say, since the law says they must go to prison if they reveal government's...

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Edward Snowden three years on

President Obama's policy is to jail whistleblowers and protect the people who manage his national security state. Presidents have become so accustomed to serving the national security state's interests...

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