NSA and other updates
The latest on the NSA domestic data mining and surveillance story from DefenseTech, including a link to Wired's piece on evidence provided by a former employee about AT&T's cooperation with the spy agency.
NPR has a page summarizing some of the legal arguments around the NSA wiretapping story that surfaced last December.
THE "PROSECUTING REPORTERS FOR ESPIONAGE" story actually showed up a month ago in The New York Times. And while most mainstream media outlets reported on Gonzales' comments, few had editorials. The Washington Post did.
THE PRICE OF ETHANOL DOESN'T REFLECT government subsidies to corn farmers. But then the price of gasoline doesn't reflect the military costs of keeping petroleum flowing from the Middle East, either.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY... relevant both for its content as well as the fact that Joseph McCarthy began his public anti-communism battle on May 22, 1949, and Edward R. Murrow prominently attacked McCarthy's tactics 5 years later on See It Now, stating:
NPR has a page summarizing some of the legal arguments around the NSA wiretapping story that surfaced last December.
THE "PROSECUTING REPORTERS FOR ESPIONAGE" story actually showed up a month ago in The New York Times. And while most mainstream media outlets reported on Gonzales' comments, few had editorials. The Washington Post did.
THE PRICE OF ETHANOL DOESN'T REFLECT government subsidies to corn farmers. But then the price of gasoline doesn't reflect the military costs of keeping petroleum flowing from the Middle East, either.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY... relevant both for its content as well as the fact that Joseph McCarthy began his public anti-communism battle on May 22, 1949, and Edward R. Murrow prominently attacked McCarthy's tactics 5 years later on See It Now, stating:
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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