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NSA Scandals
September 17, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero
October 4, 2016
Nicole Narea
Yahoo’s surveillance program shows why internet companies shouldn’t be deputies of law enforcement.
September 19, 2013
Jane Harman
Done Right, Security and Liberty Should Reinforce Each Other. And Here's How to Do It Right.
August 30, 2013
Peter Jukes
Murdoch's Papers Fight the Guardian (and Free Speech)
Journalism's circular firing squad, UK edition
August 13, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
The Lies Aren't What Make Obama's NSA Stance So Awful
July 3, 2013
Peter Savodnik
Moscow Is No Place for a Defector
In fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden joins a long, unhappy litany of American dissidents
July 2, 2013
Joel Brenner
Clapper and Wyden: Scenes from a Sandbagging
At the now famous NSA hearing, a senator laid a dirty trap. Why we shouldn't applaud.
June 24, 2013
Tod Lindberg
The NSA Scandal Was Good for Obama
While no one was watching, the snooping story muscled all those other controversies out of the way
June 23, 2013
Julia Ioffe
Edward Snowden's Strange Layover in Moscow
Who knew that Moscow was on the way from Hong Kong to Quito?
June 7, 2013
Rachel Levinson-Waldman
Against Our Values—And Bad at Keeping Us Safe
The real problem with data mining

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