- Obama's NSA speech: 53 years after Ike's warning
- The 4 numbers you need to know for President Obama's NSA speech WaPo
- Obama wants to end NSA holding of metadata
- NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
- Report: Usefulness of NSA Mass Surveillance 'Overblown'
- A Free Society Cannot Escape All Terrorism—"An NSA official illustrates the totalitarian temptation in bureaucracies charged with stopping 100 percent of attacks."
- The NSA Can't Tell Bernie Sanders If It's Spying On Him, Because That Would Violate His Privacy
- NSA spying? 'We've seen this movie before'—"Legislators seeking to reform the NSA may not have the votes they need. But their opponents are running out of reasons to justify the agency's activities."
- Secret surveillance court judges oppose reform ideas—"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court jurists are all against a presidential task force's ideas for increasing transparency and oversight."
- I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA's Bigwigs. Here's What Has Them Mad
- Snowden hailed as hero at University of Guelph discussion about online privacy issues
- The more I listen to American intelligence officials, the more I edge toward Snowden Foreign Policy
- Must-see morning clip: Stephen Colbert wants to fix the NSA surveillance program with (surprise) more spying! Salon
- UN: Online Privacy Now Considered a Human Right
- Online privacy: 'Big data' is watching, and building your digital profile'
- Online Privacy: We Are The Authors Of Our Own Demise
- Sync Your Files without Trusting the Cloud
- How to disappear online
- Snowden to Join Board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation—"The foundation set up by Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker and a supporter of Edward J. Snowden, encourages publishing government secrets in the public interest." NYT
- Navy Mistakenly Sends Reporter Strategy To Dodge FOIA Request
- How to contact The Globe Mail securely
- Voluntary government checkpoints spark backlash—"Checkpoints, which the government insists are voluntary, are creating a backlash because of the presence of uniformed police officers. Some police departments won't participate anymore."
- Insane Clown Posse Defends Fans, With F.B.I. Lawsuit—"The rap group Insane Clown Posse filed suit against the government, charging that it unlawfully classified fans of the band as criminal gang members." NYT
- Student arrested after buying bottled water mistaken for beer files lawsuit against state
- NYPD Seized an Innocent's Man Cash, Used It to Pad Their Pension
- The absurdly dangerous militarization of America's police Salon
- Police Becoming More Militarized As Wars Wind Down
- Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling Bolstering Gadget Privacy at U.S. Border
- After 12 years, £390bn, and countless dead, we leave poverty, fraud – and the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Devastating dossier on 'abuse' by UK forces in Iraq goes to International Criminal Court
- U.S. ambivalence runs deep as Iraq violence revives
- Falluja's Fall Stuns Marines Who Fought There NYT
- I helped destroy Falluja in 2004. I won't be complicit again—"The media accepts the overly simple narrative that al-Qaida took over. The reality is Maliki is crushing dissent with US-made arms."
- Close Guantánamo prison, says first US commander on 12th anniversary
- Senate Report Debunks Key Benghazi Conspiracy Claims, Says Attack Preventable
- 9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened
- Scholar Wins Court Battle to Purge Name From U.S. No-Fly List
- Manufacturing Terrorists—A look inside "The Terror Factory."
- Aitzaz Hasan: Tributes to Pakistan teenager killed when he stopped a bomber—"My son made his mother cry, but saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children." May his sacrifice be always remembered as a call for peace.
- 'One in four US drone deaths in Pakistan are civilian'
- Drone strikes are illegal according to a prominent Pakistani lawyer
- US fighting 'wrong war' against 'wrong people'
- Utah gun maker turns down $15M deal with Pakistan—"... citing concerns they could eventually be used against U.S. troops."
- Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $6 trillion—"The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found."
- The Startling Size of US Special Forces—"A TomDispatch investigation reveals America's secret military operates in over half the nations on the planet."
- Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex
- An Unholy Alliance Is Forcing Veterans To Pay For 12 Years Of War
- Feds in Ajo for Border Patrol home cost audit—"Feds in Ajo for Border Patrol home cost audit,Following an uproar by residents and some members of Congress, the Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into whether $15 million in tax dollars to build housing for Border Patrol agents here was improperly spent."
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren working with Sen. Marco Rubio on amendment to protect veterans from scams
- The Charity Swindle—Brian Thompsan sentenced to 28 years, "including solitary confinement on every Veterans Day during that span." NYT
- Wounded Warriors Project A Legal Scam
- Government regulators who killed net neutrality became top cable industry lobbyists— "The LA Times points out something worth repeating: net neutrality was really killed back in 2002, when the FCC Chairman Michael Powell reclassified cable modem services as 'information services' rather than 'telecommunications services.'"
- Why you should care about Net neutrality
- Winning and Losing in the Net Neutrality Decision
- FCC will find new way to prevent ISP abuse after net neutrality loss—With today's Congress, common carrier reclassifcation is a pipe dream.
- The Feds Lost Net Neutrality, But Won Control of the Internet
