Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism

Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?

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Manning Conviction Under Espionage Act Is Blatant Threat to Civil Liberties

Tuesday's verdict convicting Bradley Manning on 20 counts represents the first time under the Obama administration that any leaker of official secrets has been convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act.

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Edward Snowden Is Not the Story — the Fate of the Internet Is

The mainstream media's focus on Edward Snowden has trumped the real story — which is what the NSA revelations tell us about how our networked world actually works and the direction in which it is heading.

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NSA: The Decision Problem

The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is being done, but what is being thought.

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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 Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom

Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?

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Oliver Stone: Government's "Gigantic Surveillance Machine Is Eating Our Freedom"

Some have claimed that Americans don't care about the revelations that the NSA is conducting massive surveillance on our private communications. But Oliver Stone isn't buying it.

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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It

At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

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The Insider Threat Program: Obama's Crackdown on Leaks That "Aid the Enemy"

Even before Edward Snowden exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a new and unprecedented government-wide crackdown on security threats.

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Boycott! A Call to Renew the Resistance that Works

Where are the momentous, consciousness-raising boycotts of yesteryear that rose up against injustice, bigotry, or plain stupidity, to advance legal, civil and workers’ rights?

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