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More Spying and More Lying May. 04, 2017
Late last week, President Donald Trump told CBS News that domestic surveillance of American citizens... Read More
Prying Provokes Privacy Protection May. 14, 2014
A year before most of us knew that the National Security Agency was routinely collecting our phone r... Read More
A Government Admission of Wrongdoing Apr. 10, 2014
Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyde... Read More
Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping Apr. 02, 2014
Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last July, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explai... Read More
Probable Cause Mar. 27, 2014
Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing t... Read More
An Unconscionable Silence Feb. 20, 2014
The political philosopher Edmund Burke once remarked that all that is necessary for the triumph of e... Read More
Mass Surveillance Proves Pointless Jan. 19, 2014
In times of war and national emergency, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice civil liberties to sec... Read More
Fear and Freedom Jan. 18, 2014
The day after 9/11, I called one of my friends and said we should write a "quickie" book o... Read More
Spying on Congress Jan. 09, 2014
Happy New Year. Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn't get any worse, it has. Last w... Read More
Almost Orwellian Dec. 19, 2013
"Almost Orwellian" — that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week t... Read More
Excusing Abuses of Power Dec. 19, 2013
If you're part of the U.S. national security apparatus and you torture someone to death during an in... Read More
Are You Consenting to Surveillance Right Now? Dec. 18, 2013
After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls fro... Read More
The Judge and the NSA Dec. 18, 2013
I suspect the NSA may have thought they got lucky when one of the first post-Edward Snowden cases to... Read More
A Conspiracy So Vast Dec. 12, 2013
Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the N... Read More
The CIA and the NYPD Are Worrisome Bedfellows Sep. 05, 2011
An extensive relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and the New York Police Department... Read More
