Here’s the thing about President Obama’s war on whistleblowers: In bringing espionage charges in nine cases involving disclosures or alleged misuse of classified information, the current administration has set a floor, rather than a ceiling, on the number and types of whistleblower espionage cases a future President can bring. And here’s another thing: With leaders […]
Archives for June 2015
Assessing the Candidates: Obama’s Whistleblower War Leaves Dangerous Legacy for Future Presidents
June 24, 2015
Senator Feinstein’s Funny Double Standard on Opposition to Torture
June 9, 2015
Dianne Feinstein pointed to David Petraeus’ letter encouraging people to report torture in her letter arguing for leniency. So why didn’t she write a letter supporting leniency for John Kiriakou?
Congressional Priorities for Defense Intelligence Agency: Take More Money, Discredit Snowden
June 5, 2015
Today marks the two year anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. The anniversary was marked not just with a Snowden op-ed published by the New York Times titled “The World Says No to Surveillance,” but also a major new Vice story on the government’s damage assessment based on documents FOIAed by Jason Leopold. As Vice notes, the FOIAed documents […]
A Misleading Moment of Celebration for a New Surveillance Program
June 4, 2015
The morning after final passage of the USA Freedom Act, while some foes of mass surveillance were celebrating, Thomas Drake sounded decidedly glum. The new law, he told me, is “a new spy program.” It restarts some of the worst aspects of the Patriot Act and further codifies systematic violations of Fourth Amendment […]
