- Fugitive Snowden slips out of Moscow airport for 'secure' base—He's been granted a one-year asylum.
- Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow—"Lon Snowden says his son will be 'treated horribly' if he returns to US and in his place he would stay in Russia." Guantánamo's lovely this time of year.
- Senators lash out at NSA for excessive secrecy
- NSA Director Defends Surveillance Activities During Tense Black Hat Keynote—Claims that there has been 'zero abuses' of data, but is that another lie?
- The NSA's Massive Call Record Surveillance Program Barely Accomplishes Anything
- The Government Lied About Being Able To Read Your Email Without A Warrant
- Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy—"But he was convicted on lesser charges." Salon
- ACLU: Manning Verdict Intended To Intimidate Those Who Would Reveal 'Valuable Information'
- Bradley Manning Faced Harsher Prosecution Merely Because His Leaks Involved a Computer
- Bradley Manning: my view from inside the Fort Meade courtroom—"The media loves to argue whether Manning is a hero or a traitor, but that is beside the point. This is about truth."
- Loner Sought a Refuge, and Ended Up in War—'Feeling outcast in Iraq, Bradley Manning, then a 22-year-old Army private, turned to the Internet for solace. Prosecutors called what came next one of the greatest betrayals in United States history." NYT
- Manning sentencing: Wikileaks 'strained' US-Afghan ties
- Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears—"Counter-intelligence officer who investigated WikiLeaks impact undermines argument that Manning leak put lives at risk."
- US judge rules that Espionage Act does not require proof of any harm done
- FBI sued for keeping secret their file on journalist Michael Hastings
- Michael Hastings death: New video of crash emerges
- Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies—"Hastings was fearless and shook things up – especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn't forgive him."
- Glenn Greenwald to Jeffrey Toobin: You're "calling for the end of investigative journalism"
- Protecting journalist sources: Lessons in communicating securely
- Blast from the Past: Lap Dogs of the Press—"During the run-up to the Iraq War, the nation's leading print and broadcast media could have saved lives if they questioned the Administration's pronouncements. Instead, they were an echo chamber for the White House."
- Pentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified
- Kissinger: 'Terrorists are really people that reject the international system'
- Italy: Bid to hold CIA chief rejected by Panama
- US disappointed in Yemen journalist's release—"The United States expressed disappointment Wednesday in the release of a Yemeni journalist who rights groups say was detained because of his reporting on al-Qaida and alleged U.S. complicity in attacks in Yemen." How disappointed are they now that he's been gotten a presidential pardon.
- Dutch court blocks extradition to US of Dutch-Pakistani terror suspect—"Dutch judges blocked the extradition Tuesday of a terror suspect to the United States, saying he was tortured in Pakistan after his 2010 arrest and it is unclear whether American authorities had any involvement."
- Canada: Controversial anti-terror bill passes, allowing preventative arrests, secret hearings
- U.N. raps Chile for using anti-terrorism laws in indigenous protests—"Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is under fire for allowing the country's counterterrorism legislation to be used against indigenous protesters fighting for ancestral land rights."
- Britain's Former Top Spy Threatens To Expose The 'Dodgy Dossier' Used To Push Iraq War
- Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out
- 'I risked my life, for what?': Iraq War veterans chilled by country's slide into civil war
- Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq
- Bush Presidential Library Misleads Visitors On WMDs In Iraq
- It Don't Gitmo Better Than This: Inside the Dark Heart of Guantánamo Bay
- 5 senators at Guantanamo hearing easily outnumbered by protesters
- Pentagon: Guantanamo tab $5.2 billion and counting
- Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in Drone Killings NYT
- Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes—"The report describes 147 civilian deaths, much higher than the U.S. administration has admitted to." Salon
- FBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants
- US approves drones for civilian use
- Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Speeders—"The metal signs say, 'Speed enforced by drones.' They also show a drone firing a weapon."
- US auditor finds taxpayer money flowing to Taliban, Al Qaeda - but Army refuses to act—"Warnings from the US government's internal auditor that an ongoing $20 billion Afghanistan reconstruction program is lining the pockets of the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been ignored."
- KBR must face lawsuit over alleged kickbacks from military contracts: court
- Iowa soldier-mayor blows whistle on war fraud—"George Toubekis helped prevent $20 million in fuel theft in Afghanistan."
- In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money
- Blast from the Past: How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'—"Official account of what many believe was British central bank's most shameful episode revealed more than 70 years after event."
- Lawsuit settled over man's strip at Richmond airport—"Whether it is construed as different, unusual or bizarre, non-disruptive expressive protest — which is what Aaron Tobey engaged in — is at the core of protected First Amendment speech. Frankly, the nation would be better served if all government officials were required to undertake a training course on what it means to respect the constitutional rights of the citizenry."
- TSA Is Making Airport Valets Search Your Trunk—"And legal experts say the searches may violate your Fourth Amendment rights."
- Misconduct accusations against TSA officers rise 27 percent in two years—All part of getting citizens to capitulate theirs rights and dignity under the guise of figthing terror.
