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The NSA is Still Wiretapping. And We’re Surprised?

By | 04.16.09 | 11:16 am

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 More…

I Was Wrong, CJR Was Misleading, and We All Missed the Bigger Story

By | 04.13.09 | 9:06 pm

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 More…

Big Break From Bush on ‘State Secrets’ Unlikely Under Obama

By | 04.09.09 | 12:01 am

In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the Bush administration’s position on the use of the state secrets privilege, noting just one case out of about 20 More…