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Why Is University of Pennsylvania Hosting Secret Meetings About Secret Surveillance?
Last month's conference here, entitled "On the Very Idea of Secret Laws," featured moderated discussions about secret courts, secret laws and America's rampaging surveillance apparatus—and was kept strangely, well, secret from the public.
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Oil Espionage: How the NSA and Britain's GCHQ Spied on OPEC
Documents disclosed by Edward Snowden reveal that both America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ have infiltrated the computer network of OPEC to spy on global energy supplies.
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What To Do About Surveillance and the FISA Court?
If we settle for merely feel-good reforms to FISA and security state overreach, there is a clear and present danger of another big scandal whenever the next Snowden blows the whistle.
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Exposed: NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans' Data with Israel
Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart -- the latest top-secret document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Revealed: Spying Scandal Engulfs Other U.S. Agencies
Former prosecutor Patrick Nightingale says he and his colleagues may have been unwitting pawns in the federal government’s effort to deceive defendants and the court system, thereby violating citizens’ constitutional rights.
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Snowden: U.K. Government Is Now Leaking Documents About Itself
Edward Snowden said he is not the source of an Independent article about Britain's secret Internet-monitoring station.
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Can Activists Win the PR Battle With the Fossil Fuel Industry?
There is ample evidence about ways that local and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as the company responsible for building the Keystone XL pipeline, are working together to undermine peaceful political protest.
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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs
Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.
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What the Progressive Caucus Said - and Failed to Say - About Edward Snowden and the NSA
Leaders and members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress say things that appeal to their constituencies back home — without throwing down the gauntlet and battling an administration that has made clear its contempt for essential civil liberties.
