jewel v. nsa
The NSA is Still Wiretapping. And We’re Surprised?
I hate to say it, but, I told you so…
Just the other day, when I was writing about the case of Jewel v. NSA (and responding to the Columbia Journalism Review’s criticism that no one was covering this important case about warrantless wiretapping), I remarked that while everyone’s been up in arms about the Obama [...]
I Was Wrong, CJR Was Misleading, and We All Missed the Bigger Story
After my last post about the Columbia Journalism Review’s post on Friday lamenting that most of the media was missing the story on Obama’s disturbing reliance on the so-called “state secrets privilege”, CJR staff writer Clint Hendler, who wrote that Friday post, wrote me to tell me that I’d actually mis-read his story. He wasn’t [...]
Big Break From Bush on ‘State Secrets’ Unlikely Under Obama
In an interview with Katie Couric, Eric Holder dodged specifics on Justice Department plans.
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