By Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn, and Andrew Crocker: Electronic Frontier Foundation

On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. What came next were weeks of disclosures—and official declassifications—as Edward Snowden worked with some of the world’s top news organizations to reveal critical facts about the National Security Agency vacuuming up people’s online communications, internet activity, and phone records, both inside and outside the U.S..

By Chip Gibbons: Defending Rights & Dissent
So long as protests are treated as national security and intelligence matters, national security and intelligence tools will be used to endanger political expression.

By Lisa Ling, Sarah Cords: The Progressive

Whistleblowers like Reality Winner and Daniel Hale acted on principle; the same can’t be said for alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira.

DETROIT — Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) led Congressmembers Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Cori Bush (MO-01), Greg Casar (TX-35), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ilhan Omar (MN-05) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on the Department of Justice to uphold the First Amendment’s protections for the freedom of the press by dropping the Trump-era charges against Australian publisher Julian Assange and withdrawing the American extradition request currently pending with the British government.

By Todd Miller : Institute for Public Accuracy

Miller writes at The Border Chronicle and just wrote the piece “Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are Creeping Up the California Coast.”

By Ryan Grim : The Intercept

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is collecting signatures on a letter calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to end the extradition drive against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.

By Erica Techo — UGA Today

Study shows that as newsrooms shrink, so does the trust of some former sources

The whistleblowers who once trusted journalism are losing faith in the institution.

By Sharon Kyle: LA Progressive

Carey Shenkman and Ralph Engelman took what many might consider and a dry topic and made it accessible to all.

Published by Cody Bloomfield: Defending Rights & Dissent

In an absurd ruling, the Eighth Circuit denied that boycotts are political expression. Now, the Supreme Court has denied writ of certiorari, letting the Eighth Circuit’s ruling in Arkansas Times LP v. Waldrip stand. This is a missed opportunity for the Supreme Court to take a stand for the proud tradition of political boycott in the United States.