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On June 9 the Guardian announced that Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old government contractor and former C.I.A. employee was responsible for revealing to the Washington Post and the Guardian that the National Security Agency had been collecting information about telephone calls...
I like this Kevin Drum item on National Security Agency and oversight, but it repeats something which I think shouldn't be accepted so easily by everyone: The traditional method of oversight is via congressional committees and the court system. But...
The above Pew poll, noting that Democrats are basically okay with NSA domestic surveillance under President Obama but were outraged by it under President Bush (and vice versa for Republicans), is getting a lot of attention lately. (See, for...
John Sides just posted some survey results comparing attitudes about secret National Security Agency wiretapping, comparing polls in 2006 and 2013. At first glance, support for the surveillance seems slightly higher than before, with 51% supporting it in 2006, and...
From a new Washington Post/Pew survey:...