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The Most Dangerous Terrorists Don't Have Verizon Accounts

06.18.2013
Edward Snowden -- hero or traitor? The 29-year-old Snowden has aroused as sharp a divide in opinion as any in recent memory. But focusing...

New Security Measures: Is the NFL the New TSA?

06.18.2013
According to the NFL, "Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, briefcases, backpacks,...
NSA: 50 Terrorist Plots Were Foiled Thanks To Surveillance Program

NSA: 50 Terrorist Plots Were Foiled Thanks To Surveillance Program

06.18.2013
BY KIMBERLY DOZIER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping...

The Terror Con

06.18.2013
For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of...
FBI Used Secret Law To Obtain Secret Evidence On Accused Terrorists: Report

FBI Used Secret Law To Obtain Secret Evidence On Accused Terrorists: Report

John Shiffman, Kristina Cooke and Mark Hosenball  06.18.2013
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute...

Tinfoil Hat Territory

06.17.2013
Just for fun, today I'd like to use my column to skate perilously close to the edge of rampant paranoia. I'm really doing this to make...

Emotion, Reason, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

06.17.2013
Choosing one's words carefully is important simply because the stakes are high and emotions are powerful. Some who criticize Israel and...

Big Data, Thick Descrption and Political Expediency

06.16.2013
President Obama and leaders of large orgnaizations are trapped under ever-increasing piles of Big Data, which means they have little knowledge...

Syria Presents Tough Sales Job for Obama

06.14.2013
Resolving the civil war in Syria has the potential to bring more stability to the region. The possibility of a win-win outcome should be...

A Sense of Proportion

06.14.2013
What does it say about us, that we have no problem with tens of thousands of people being killed by guns, yet a terrorist act that kills...

The NSA Affair: A Symptom, Not a Cause

06.14.2013
The relationship of government to the citizen has become an insultingly patronizing game characterized by a Pavlovian call-and-response:...

PRISM Break

06.14.2013
But why? Are these readers hoping to find out if things today are really as bad as Orwell foretold? Do they want to know if it has a happy...
NSA-OK!: The Spy Who Ignored We

NSA-OK!: The Spy Who Ignored We

06.13.2013
Not to deflate everyone's false sense of pride and outrage but no one gives a damn about who you are calling and emailing. Please, don't...

Bombing, Sovereignty, Globalization and Now the NSA

06.13.2013
Congress has just spent an agonizing several weeks debating background checks for gun purchasers and whether such checks would violate...