- The Banality of Systemic Evil—"A recent poll showed that 70 percent of people aged 18 to 34 thought Edward Snowden 'did a good thing.' Has the younger generation lost its moral compass?" NYT
- Amid NSA Scandal, ACLU Report Turns Spotlight Back To FBI's 'Unchecked Abuse Of Authority'
- DOJ: Some Constitutional Rights Can't Be Tested In Courts, Like Our Ability To Kill You With A Drone
- Federal Appeals Court: Border Agents Can't Answer Suspect's Cell Phone And Impersonate Owner
- Cross Border Killings—"What happens when US Border Patrol agents shoot across international lines, killing Mexicans in their own country?" Nothing because US courts asserted "that Mexican citizens do not have the same constitutional protections as US citizens..."
- Anonymous Cop Pens Bizarre Editorial Calling for 'End of Anonymity on the Internet,' Says All Internet Posters Should be Forced to Register with the Government for 'Public Safety'—He says while his boot is stepping on your neck.
- Charles Xue tells Chinese media he spread irresponsible online posts—"Detained Chinese-American venture capitalist says 'freedom of speech cannot override the law.'" Room 101 strikes again.
- Supreme Court Weighs When Online Speech Becomes an Illegal Threat
- Judge Throws Out Officers' Convictions in Killings After Hurricane Katrina—"The judge harshly criticized federal prosecutors for making anonymous comments on the Web site of a New Orleans newspaper before and during the trial." NYT
- Cynics Online—"Ambiguous usernames that provide anonymity have resulted in an increase in freedom of speech and a decrease in liability."
- "Free Flow of Information Act" Targets Independent Journalism—"According to the text of an amendment sponsored by Senators Diane Feinstein and Dick Durbin..., only salaried journalists will be given the free press protections guaranteed to all US citizens by the Constitution." How Orwellian can you get? "Free Flow" indeed.
- Why 'be transparent' has replaced 'act independently' as a guiding journalism principle
- The Onion Is The Country's Best Op-Ed Page. Seriously.
- Ideas at the House: Panel - The War on Whistleblowers and Their Publishers—"US Journalist and activist Alexa O'Brien and Australian commentator Robert Manne are joined by video conference with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Guardian Journalist Glenn Greenwald and Chelsea Manning's Lawyer David Coombs on stage at the Sydney Opera House (moderated by Bernard Keane of Crikey)."
- AP Journalists: The NYPD 'Less Transparent' Than CIA, FBI And NSA When It Comes To FOI Requests
- DoD office can't process FOIAs because fax machine broken, no money for new one
- Fugitive Snowden in running for European rights prize
- Former NSA chief: 'Morally arrogant' Snowden will probably become an alcoholic
- The NSA Has No Solution For The Real 'Snowden Problem' And It's Only Going To Get Worse
- U.S. Telcos Have Never Challenged NSA Demands for Your Metadata
- Newly Released Secret Surveillance Court Ruling Confirms Sweeping Legal Standard For Collecting Phone Data
- FISA Court Pretends Every Member Of Congress Was Told Details Of Bulk Surveillance, Even Though They Weren't
- Senators Decry NSA 'Ineptitude,' Call for End to Dragnet Phone Surveillance
- Verizon exec slams Google, Microsoft, Yahoo for NSA lawsuit grandstanding—Big brother knows best!
- Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not 'Surprising' Enough to Cover—Nothing to see here folks. Move along... seriously, move... along. NYT
- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff calls off US trip—"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off a state visit to Washington next month in a row over allegations of US espionage."
- Forensic Details in U.N. Report Point to Assad's Use of Gas NYT
- Jon Stewart Goes After Sen. Graham, Others For Pushing War In Syria
- Final Tally: Americans Were 12 Times More Interested in Miley Cyrus Than Syria—State of the nation indeed.
- How the 'war on terror' came home—"The story of Aaron Alexis is still obscure. But effects of an over-taxed US military are painfully visible among 2 million veterans."
- The War on Terror is Still Everywhere
- Herat attack: Afghanistan Taliban target US consulate
