Arizona’s Trent Franks Doesn’t Get To ...
News Flash: And 20 weeks isn’t six months “[Y]ou know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,”...
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Those Pew/WaPo Headlines? Black and White In A Ver...
Corporate headline writers went to town on Monday and the tweets and bloggers followed. Don’t believe those headlines. They...
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Why “It’s just metadata” is so m...
Meta-data: information about information. When the story about US government digital surveillance broke last week, “no need to...
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Claims and Counter-claims: Has PRISM Really Done A...
In a different kind of revolving door, a former FBI official who is now a CBS senior correspondent is defending PRISM. Former FBI...
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Parsing The NSA Denials: It’s 2006 All Over ...
Updated 12:15 am Pacific Saturday From the New York Times: [I]nstead of adding a back door to their servers, the companies were...
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Another NSA Whistleblower Steps Up: US Monitors Pr...
Updated: 10:00 am Friday Pacific Has the dam of silence broken at NSA? In the space of a day we’ve learned that the NSA collects...
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NSA collecting daily domestic telephone data from ...
Updated 9:45 AM Pacific: It’s good to know that watchdog journalism exists, even if it’s on the other side of the...
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Bradley Manning court martial wrapped in secrecy; ...
After being jailed in 2010 for releasing classified documents, many that directed a bright light on questionable US actions, Army Pfc....
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Memorial Day In A Time Of War
First published May 26, 2008 Since 2002, we have celebrated Memorial Day with the sons and daughters of our country fighting abroad,...
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The Skagit River Bridge Collapse: Looking At The V...
On Thursday May 23, a southbound oversize 18-wheeler struck overhead girders on an I-5 bridge north of Seattle, resulting in one span...
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