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The NSA, Journalism, and Status Anxiety

By | 01.22.09 | 9:26 am

National Security Agency whistleblower Russ Tice took to MSNBC’s “Countdown” yesterday to talk about Bush administration surveillance policies that, like many others, he didn’t want to get into while George W. Bush was still president. Among those revelations was that the NSA didn’t just take so-called meta-data (the address on More…

Gonzales Took Work Home, Broke Law in Process

By | 09.02.08 | 8:08 pm

The Justice Dept. inspectors general recently released two reports on the department’s illegal politicization under former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales. Today’s IG report (pdf) finds that Gonzales broke the law in a different way– bringing home “top secret” classified notes about warrantless wiretapping. Gonzales’s careless behavior involves a More…