- Iran agrees to curb nuclear activity at Geneva talks
- We Have a Deal With Iran. A Good One.—"It's everything Obama hoped to achieve in Geneva."
- Republicans Attack Iran Deal Before It's Announced—"Texas Senator John Cornyn suggests the late-night announcement from Geneva is a Wag The Dog moment, aimed at saving the President from the messy Obamacare rollout."
- Don't Believe the Republican Cries of Vengeance—"They would have gotten rid of the filibuster at the first chance they got, regardless of what Democrats did today."
- Stop whining, centrists: Bipartisanship is a myth that's never existed—"While Beltway elite pine for the "good old days" and condemn filibuster reform, they're wrong on the history." Salon
- GOP: Ending Filibusters Is Unconstitutional and Un-American—and We'll Do it, Too
- Why The Filibuster Change Is Fantastic News For Obama—Will make him less of a lame duck [WaPo].
- Harry Reid and filibuster reform: The nuclear option is a huge victory for progressives
- Utah Attorney General Blames 'False Allegations' For Forcing Resignation
- Blow by Blow: 10 Politicians Linked to Cocaine—"Congressman Trey Radel isn't the first politician to make headlines from white lines."
- Drug testing is a great idea. Thanks, Rep. Radel.—"Rep. Trey Radel voted in favor of drug-testing the folks who get food stamps. In that case, why don’t we drug-test all people who get federal money? Let's start with members of Congress!" WaPo
- Bill to end gerrymander huge reform
- Georgia GOP dusts off Jim Crow tactic: Changing election date
- It's The Fundamentals, Stupid: Elections Aren't Determined By Short-Term 'Game Changes'
- White House blocks access to Obama events, news groups say
- Focal shift: Press photogs riled by White House social media—"Even if the Obama administration mollifies angry photojournalists, the news media now has to earn its place alongside direct communications through Twitter and Facebook."
- Muzzling the Freedom of Information Act—"Government to authors: We're not showing you public records because you're not journalists."
- Government Claims Americans Have No Right To Challenge NSA Phone Surveillance
- N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power—"The top-secret document described strategies to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and stay ahead of adversaries in intelligence collection." NYT
- NSA and metadata: How the government can spy on your health, political beliefs, and religious practices
- NSA Mass Surveillance Has Already Been Used For Ordinary Police Work—"[O]nce mass surveillance of ordinary people is used for everyday police work, we are past the event horizon to a surveillance dystopia."
- NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software
- Report: NSA also had the green light to spy on UK residents—"NSA has unfettered access to metadata about UK residents' communications."
- House intel bill adds $75 million to NSA budget to stop future Snowdens—"Senate version also adds money to NSA's budget to stop 'insider threat.'"
- NSA bulk data collection violates constitutional rights, ACLU argues—"Civil liberties group tells New York court that program breaches first and fourth amendments and NSA is overreaching its powers."
- NSA deputy director skeptical on sharing data with FBI and others—"John Inglis appears at University of Pennsylvania to argue legality of bulk surveillance and indicates stance on Feinstein bill."
- Former Blackwater CEO: The NSA Is Turning America Into North Korea
- Tim Berners-Lee says 'surveillance threatens web'And it's worse than outright censorship.
- Internet co-creator: 'Privacy may be an anomaly'
- Lavabit Strikes Back at Feds in Key Internet Privacy Case
- Twitter upping security to thwart government hacking—"The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data."
- Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days. Here's how.
- Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to NDAA 2014—CISPA returns.
- President's tech council plays sad trombone for federal cybersecurity—"Report finds that government 'rarely follows accepted best practices.'"
- Repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic, researchers warn—"Man-in-the-middle attacks divert data on scale never before seen in the wild."
- LG smart TVs send viewing habits, filenames back to manufacturer—"Businesses may want to think twice before plugging that USB device into the boardroom smart TV as a UK blogger has found that his TV has been sending back the names of files on his devices."
- Google pays $17m to settle Safari cookie privacy-bypass charge
- Microsoft video attacks Google's Chrome as surveillance technology
- Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work—"This obscure FBI unit does the domestic surveillance that no other intelligence agency can touch."
- US Working Overtime Behind The Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping
- The surveillance state: How Australia spies on its own
- Mexico Uses Deaf People to Monitor Surveillance Cameras
- A Vote for Privacy is a Vote for Security
