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June 14, 2013 11:30 AM The Informer: Is Edward Snowden a Traitor or Whistleblower? Probably Both.

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...

By Daniel Luzer

June 13, 2013 10:53 AM Congress Gags Itself

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...

By Jonathan Bernstein

June 13, 2013 10:23 AM Are Partisans Hypocrites?

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...

By Seth Masket

June 12, 2013 11:00 AM Changing Attitudes in How we Think About Surveillance

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...

By Andrew Gelman

June 11, 2013 11:05 AM Partisanship in Everything: Views of the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance

From a new Washington Post/Pew survey:...

By John Sides