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Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald
How Much Economic Espionage Is Too Much?
Snowden Called in to Putin’s Telethon. Does That Really Make Him a Kremlin Pawn?
The Land of the Free Isn’t so Free for Journalists
Why Is Edward Snowden on a PR Blitz?
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Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald
Why did Edward Snowden betray the National Security Agency and leak a huge trove of secret documents to the media? It's a question that has been endlessly debated since stories based on those documents began to appear in the media during the summer...
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Wed, May 05 2014 7:26 AM
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How Much Economic Espionage Is Too Much?
"If we spy for military security, why shouldn't we spy for economic security?" Those were the words not of an aggressive Chinese spy but none other than Stansfield Turner, the Carter-era CIA director, who in 1992 argued that the United States...
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Mon, May 05 2014 4:34 PM
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Snowden Called in to Putin’s Telethon. Does That Really Make Him a Kremlin Pawn?
One of the pleasures in writing about Edward Snowden is his predilection for the absurd. The NSA whistleblower abandons his dancer girlfriend for a life in exile, hides in airports, studies Dostoyevsky, appears by teleconference at a technology conference...
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Thu, Apr 04 2014 11:19 AM
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The Land of the Free Isn’t so Free for Journalists
Armed conflict and government surveillance in the name of national security: Together they make up the world's most serious threats to press freedoms, according to Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) annual examination of press freedoms around the...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 11:00 AM
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Why Is Edward Snowden on a PR Blitz?
Edward Snowden has a problem: The revelations for which he abandoned his country, his girlfriend, and his career have -- so far, at least -- failed to inspire meaningful Congressional or White House efforts to rein in the National Security Agency. Since...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 10:00 AM
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Does Edward Snowden Really Exist?
Here's a preview of a quote you'll probably hear on this week's edition of NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me": "You know, I have serious questions about whether he really exists." Who's the speaker? Edward...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 5:24 PM
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Why Obama's Hints at Intel Reform Are Mostly Window Dressing
Eventually, President Barack Obama is going to have to go on the offensive in the debate over how to reform American intelligence gathering practices, and on Friday, he offered a few hints as to how he might do so. In an end-of-year press conference before...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 5:49 PM
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Silicon Valley Scores Victory Against the Surveillance State
With the release of a highly anticipated report on U.S. intelligence practices, American technology executives appear to have scored a hard-fought victory. That report contains a set of recommendations that seem to incorporate the concerns of tech and...
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Thu, Dec 12 2013 3:40 PM
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Boeing Just Lost a Huge Defense Contract Thanks to Ed Snowden
About $4 billion. That's how much Edward Snowden just cost defense contractor Boeing. After a lengthy courtship with the Brazilian government, Boeing looked set to sell 36 F-18 fighter jets to the Brazilian Air Force. The value of that contract was...
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Wed, Dec 12 2013 4:02 PM
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Will the U.S. Strong-Arm Brazil to Keep Snowden Out?
On Tuesday, the world woke up to a new missive from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and no one quite seemed to know what to make of it. In an open letter to the people of Brazil in that country's Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Snowden appeared to...
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Tue, Dec 12 2013 9:54 AM
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The 5 Worst Problems with 60 Minutes' Love Note to the NSA
"It is often said NSA stands for ‘never say anything,' but tonight the agency breaks with that tradition," John Miller, the reporter behind Sunday night's 60 Minutes report on the National Security Agency, announced bravely in the program's...
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Mon, Dec 12 2013 10:28 AM
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Team Putin Says They Don't Mind The Latest NSA Scandal One Bit
While the rest of the world is bubbling with (subdued) rage against the United States over reports that the NSA has been spying on their leaders, Russia is quietly rubbing its hands. On Thursday, The Guardian reported that the U.S. had been listening...
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Fri, Oct 10 2013 10:13 AM
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Metadata May Not Catch Many Terrorists, But It's Great at Busting Journalists' Sources
The National Security Agency says that the telephone metadata it collects on every American is essential for finding terrorists. And that's debatable . But this we know for sure: Metadata is very useful for tracking journalists and discovering their...
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Tue, Sep 09 2013 9:59 AM
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5 Takeaways from the Government's Super-Secret 'Black Budget'
Few documents have been more closely held by the U.S. intelligence community, but now the "black budget" -- the detailed breakdown of how American spies spend their money -- has largely been made public. Courtesy of NSA leaker Edward Snowden...
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Thu, Aug 08 2013 1:06 PM
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Is Edward Snowden the New Che Guevara?
He doesn't quite have the looks of communist revolutionary Che Guevara, but that isn't stopping a collection of companies from trying to cash in on Edward Snowden. In Russia and China, companies have in recent days filed patent applications to...
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Mon, Aug 08 2013 11:00 AM
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FP Passport
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