NSA

Spy Games: Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?

Last week Devin Nunes, (R-CA) chairman…

To Pardon or Not?

It has been two years since Edward Snowden leaked classified… References and Footnotes"Timeline of Edward Snowden's Revelations," accessed September 6, 2015. ↩Alec Luhn and Mark Tran, "Edward Snowden given Permission to Stay in Russia for Three More Years," Guardian, August 7, 2014, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/edward-snowden-permission-stay-in-russia-three-years. ↩Rebecca Berg, "Hillary Clinton: 'I Can Never Condone' Edward Snowden," Washington Examiner, September 5, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-i-can-never-condone-edward-snowden/article/2560672. ↩Charlie Spiering, "Chris Christie: Edward Snowden is 'A Traitor And A Piece of Garbage,'" Breitbart, July 22, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015,  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/22/chris-christie-edward-snowden-is-a-traitor-and-a-piece-of-garbage ↩Cheryl Chumley, "Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: Kill the ‘Traitor,’" Washington Times, July 2, 2013, accessed September 6, 2015. ↩Ben Axelson, "Edward Snowden Tells John Oliver Nude Photos Aren't Safe from NSA Surveillance," April 6, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/04/edward_snowden_nude_obscene_photo_surveillance_john_oliver.html ↩Meek, James, Luis Martinez, and Alexander Mallin, "Intel Heads: Edward Snowden Did 'Profound Damage' to U.S. Security," ABC News, January 29, 2014, accessed September 6, 2015, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/intel-heads-edward-snowden-profound-damage-us-security/story?id=22285388. ↩Glenn Greenwald, “On the Espionage Act Charges against Edward Snowden,” June 22, 2013, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden-espionage-charges. ↩“Ron Paul,” InvestmentWatch, April 2, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://investmentwatchblog.com/ron-paul-my-understanding-is-that-espionage-means-giving-secret-or-classified-information-to-the-enemy-since-snowden-shared-information-with-the-american-people-his-indictment-for-espionage-could ↩

To Pardon or Not?

It has been two years since Edward Snowden leaked… References and Footnotes"Timeline of Edward Snowden's Revelations," accessed September 6, 2015. ↩Alec Luhn and Mark Tran, "Edward Snowden given Permission to Stay in Russia for Three More Years," Guardian, August 7, 2014, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/edward-snowden-permission-stay-in-russia-three-years. ↩Rebecca Berg, "Hillary Clinton: 'I Can Never Condone' Edward Snowden," Washington Examiner, September 5, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-i-can-never-condone-edward-snowden/article/2560672. ↩Charlie Spiering, "Chris Christie: Edward Snowden is 'A Traitor And A Piece of Garbage,'" Breitbart, July 22, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015,  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/22/chris-christie-edward-snowden-is-a-traitor-and-a-piece-of-garbage ↩Cheryl Chumley, "Donald Trump on Edward Snowden: Kill the ‘Traitor,’" Washington Times, July 2, 2013, accessed September 6, 2015. ↩Ben Axelson, "Edward Snowden Tells John Oliver Nude Photos Aren't Safe from NSA Surveillance," April 6, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/04/edward_snowden_nude_obscene_photo_surveillance_john_oliver.html ↩Meek, James, Luis Martinez, and Alexander Mallin, "Intel Heads: Edward Snowden Did 'Profound Damage' to U.S. Security," ABC News, January 29, 2014, accessed September 6, 2015, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/intel-heads-edward-snowden-profound-damage-us-security/story?id=22285388. ↩Glenn Greenwald, “On the Espionage Act Charges against Edward Snowden,” June 22, 2013, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden-espionage-charges. ↩“Ron Paul,” InvestmentWatch, April 2, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://investmentwatchblog.com/ron-paul-my-understanding-is-that-espionage-means-giving-secret-or-classified-information-to-the-enemy-since-snowden-shared-information-with-the-american-people-his-indictment-for-espionage-could ↩

End 215 in 2015

The first step towards regaining some semblance of privacy took… References and Footnotes“NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily,” The Guardian, June 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order ↩“Report From The Field: The USA PATRIOT Act At Work,” U.S. Department of Justice, July 2004, http://www.justice.gov/archive/olp/pdf/patriot_report_from_the_field0704.pdf ↩Ibid. ↩ “The Whole Haystack,” The New Yorker, January 26, 2015, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack  ↩ “Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end,” The Washington Post, January 23, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/independent-review-board-says-nsa-phone-data-program-is-illegal-and-should-end/2014/01/22/4cebd470-83dd-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html ↩“More Excuses on the Patriot Act,” The New York Times, May 1, 2015, http://nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/more-excuses-on-the-patriot-act.html ↩“White House Confirms: If Section 215 Expires, So Does Bulk Phone Records Collection,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 24, 2015, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/white-house-confirms-if-section-215-expires-so-does-bulk-phone-records-collection ↩