- Retired military leaders fret kids will be 'too fat to fight'
- Army's new training shooter makes out of shape soldiers look fat—"Virtual Battlespace 3 applies real-world fitness scores to avatars' performance."
- Heavy duty: Army creates fat camps
- A Memorial Inscription's Grim Origins—"Questions have arisen about whether a quotation from a translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid' about two warriors' deaths is appropriate for the National September 11 Memorial Museum." It's taken out of context. NYT
- CIA: No more vaccination campaigns in spy operations WaPo
- Al Qaeda's American Fighters Are Coming Home—And U.S. Intelligence Can't Find Them
- Lawsuit over 'INF1DL' and 'WAR SUX' license plates headed to trial
- The case for abolishing the TSA
- Veterans Fire Back at Letter by Senator—"Senator Richard M. Burr's letter that said leaders of veterans groups were defending the status quo at the V.A. drew fierce responses." Says he clearly represents the worst in politics. NYT
- Thank You for Being Expendable—"The scandal over the care of veterans is really an old story." NYT
- Flashback: Republicans Block VA Benefits
- US forced to acknowledge secret tapes of Guantánamo force-feedings
- Guantánamo inmate vomited blood after force-feeding, documents show
- Judge allows forced feeding to resume on Guantanamo detainee
- Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) Unable To Re-Enter America Due To "Immigration Issues"—Retaliation for his force-feeding "simulations"? Update: This rumor has been debunked [Salon].
- Why Guantanamo remains open
- 'Over My Dead Body': Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War
- House Poised to Reject Pentagon's Cost-Cutting Plans—"The House of Representative on Wednesday edged toward passage of an annual defense policy bill that rejects Pentagon plans to retire older weapons systems and slow the rise in military pay as it implements long-term spending cuts ordered by Congress." NYT
- Congress Blocks Navy's Plan to Lay Up 11 Cruisers—"The Navy's plan to lay up 11 cruisers and three amphibious ships as part of a cost-saving, long-term modernization plan has been met with skepticism, concern and caution from members of Congress."
- White House threatens veto of defense bill—"The White House is threatening a veto of the House version of a $601 billion defense bill over election-year moves to spare weapons systems and popular programs in the face of limited budgets."
- US House approves $600 million military aid package for Israel—And "authorizes provisions for Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow 3."
- Secret laws are a threat to American democracy—"Releasing the drone-assassination memo is only the first step."
- Iran Knows the Secrets of America's Stealth Drone—"Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170."
- The Catholic Church Proved the US Government Is Making Up Drone Rules On the Fly
- New Zealand PM John Key Confirms 'Legal' Data-Sharing with U.S.; Justifies U.S. Drone Strikes
- Obama signals US to keep limited Afghanistan role—"President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan for a surprise visit Sunday and made clear that the U.S. will likely maintain a limited role here even after its combat mission ends this year and America's longest war comes to a close."
- Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official
- White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan—Oops. WaPo
- Afghanistan Hits Out at U.S. Spying Allegations
- This Is How the Right Milks Benghazi for Cash—"And more proof it's all about Hillary Clinton."
- Allen West Says Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Decorated Veteran, Not 'Loyal' To America
- Issa's latest Benghazi stunt backfires
- John Kerry Trolls The House—Adroit political manuevering.
- We need to know why DHS is an NSA intelligence "customer", and what that means
- Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt Salon
- Did GoDaddy and Homeland Security shut down a Mexican protest site?
- FBI chief: 'Be suspicious' of government power
- Microsoft wins case to block FBI request for customer data—Didn't "win" as much as the FBI withdrew their case, preventing legal precedence over NSLs.
- Pension for FBI shooter of Todashev draws scrutiny in Oakland
- The White House Is Trying to Weaken the NSA Reform Bill: Report
- As Feared: House Guts USA Freedom Act, Every Civil Liberties Organization Pulls Their Support
- Changes to Surveillance Bill Stoke Anger—"At the Obama administration's request, House leaders revised a bill that limits the government's bulk collection of phone records, spurring several civil liberties groups to withdraw support for the bill."
- The NSA Reform Bill the House Passed Today Is a Watered-Down Piece of Nonsense
- The NSA Bill That Just Passed Is So Weak, Original Backers Voted Against It
- Snowden's First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii
- NBC News Trumps ABC's Hillary Clinton Exclusive With Edward Snowden's First American Interview Since NSA Info Dump
- Edward Snowden Seeking Return to US: Der Spiegel
- Snowden: "I Was Trained as a Spy."
- NYT Book Reviewer Wonders If Glenn Greenwald Should Be Locked Up—Greenwald responds to Kinsley and his hacktastic review.
- 'Journalist' Argues In NY Times That Publishing Decisions Should Ultimately Be Made By Government
- The Government Isn't Very Good at Deciding What to Keep Secret—"So why do so many Americans insist that the state, not the press, should call the shots?"
- NYT Public Editor Slams 'Sneering' Review Of Glenn Greenwald's Book
- Sony Acquires Film Rights For Glenn Greenwald's Snowden Book—The first part read like a thiller novel.
- Glenn Greenwald to publish list of U.S. citizens that NSA spied on
- Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy—"Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the apparatus of repression has been covertly attached to the democratic state. However, our struggle to retain privacy is far from hopeless."
- Pentagon report: scope of intelligence compromised by Snowden 'staggering'—Yeah, about that report.
- California lawmakers make modest attempt to halt NSA data collection—"There's nothing that says states have to cooperate with a federal agency."
- Fine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies—"United States officials say the N.S.A. is free to spy on trade negotiators to help American trade officials, and by extension, American industries and workers they are trying to bolster." NYT
- Marc Andreessen: Tech companies are still fuming over the NSA WaPo
- China Said to Study IBM Servers for Bank Security Risks—"Government agencies, including the People's Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance, are asking banks to remove the IBM servers and replace them with a local brand as part of a trial program...."
- House Committee Puts NSA on Notice Over Encryption Standards—"Amendment would remove requirement that the National Institute of Standards and Technology consult with the NSA on encryption standards."
- Man who lost all those NSA secrets to teach cybersecurity at Harvard
- PBS: United States of Secrets
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit—"For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place." Update: More from Levision.
- Everything Is Broken
- Empty promises: ProtonMail—A caveat to using "secure" email services.
- Federal 'Biosurveillance' Plan Seeking Direct Access to Americans' Private Medical Records
- ID theft protector LifeLock deletes user data over concerns that app isn't safe
- LG Will Take The 'Smart' Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don't Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties
- Internet 'Do Not Track' system is in shatters
- For Do Not Call violations, Sprint will pay FCC $7.5M in largest ever settlement—FCC: "Protecting consumer privacy is a top enforcement priority."
