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Why Prosecuting Snowden Is Unfair -- Until NSA Answers for Misconduct May. 30, 2014

Joe Conason

What America learned from Edward Snowden's interview with "NBC News" anchor Brian Williams on Wednes... Read More

No Place To Hide May. 29, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

With heart-pounding suspense, John le Carre-like intrigue and Jeffersonian fidelity to the principle... Read More

Prying Provokes Privacy Protection May. 14, 2014

Jacob Sullum

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

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyde... Read More

What if Secrecy Trumps the Constitution? Apr. 03, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all A... Read More

Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping Apr. 02, 2014

Jacob Sullum

Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last July, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explai... Read More

NSA Surveillance and the Dangers of Power Mar. 30, 2014

Steve Chapman

Every so often, we get proof that Barack Obama, when confronted with a grievous abuse of government ... Read More

New Assaults on American Law Feb. 27, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

In the months since Edward Snowden revealed the nature and extent of the spying that the National Se... Read More

A New Assault on Freedom of the Press Feb. 13, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Last week, a little noticed clash took place on Capitol Hill involving the fundamental values underl... Read More

Presidential Placebo Jan. 23, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profou... Read More

Obama's Privacy Epiphany Jan. 22, 2014

Jacob Sullum

Last June, after news reports revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) was surreptitiously c... Read More

Mass Surveillance Proves Pointless Jan. 19, 2014

Steve Chapman

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

Susan Estrich

The day after 9/11, I called one of my friends and said we should write a "quickie" book o... Read More

In the Debate About the NSA, Will Facts Trump Fear? Jan. 17, 2014

David Sirota

In order to have a genuinely constructive debate, data must be compiled, evidence must be amassed an... Read More

Spying on Congress Jan. 09, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Happy New Year. Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn't get any worse, it has. Last w... Read More

Free Edward Snowden -- Really? Jan. 05, 2014

Debra J. Saunders

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has pronounced that the proper punishment for National Security Ag... Read More

The Year of Edward Snowden, Criminal and/or Hero Jan. 02, 2014

Daily Editorials

On this last day of 2013, in an apartment in Moscow, living like an "indoor cat" and subsi... Read More

Almost Orwellian Dec. 19, 2013

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

"Almost Orwellian" — that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week t... Read More

Excusing Abuses of Power Dec. 19, 2013

Steve Chapman

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

Jacob Sullum

After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls fro... Read More