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Spy Games
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Feb. 24, 2014
NSA Stops Tapping Merkel’s Phone, Spies on Hundreds of German Leaders Instead
Just like Obama promised.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 21, 2014
Judge Rules NYPD Spying on Muslims Didn’t Hurt While It Was Secret
A lawsuit against the police has been dismissed.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Feb. 16, 2014
Journalists Win Polk Award for Snowden Leak Reporting
New question: “Accomplice” or “award-winning journalist”?
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 14, 2014
NSA Figured Out Who’s to Blame for Snowden Leak
A civilian employee who unwittingly gave him his password.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 10, 2014
Greenwald Launches Intercept, Links NSA, Drones
The new site reveals its point of view from the jump.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Feb. 7, 2014
U.S. Diplomat Curses at the E.U., Russia Tattles to the World
Via YouTube.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 7, 2014
Snowden’s Leaks Are Getting Their Own Magazine
Helmed by Glenn Greenwald.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 5, 2014
Booz Allen Exec Describes How Snowden Deceived His Former Employer
And calls him a narcissist who had “failed at most everything he did.”
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Feb. 4, 2014
Tech Companies Reveal New Data on NSA Requests
See? There’s no reason to worry.
By
Margaret Hartmann
ink-stained wretches overseas
Jan. 31, 2014
Destroying Snowden’s Files Was Surprisingly Labor-Intensive
Blue-collar journalism.
By
Adam Martin
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Jan. 30, 2014
Obama Picks Navy Cybersecurity Chief to Helm NSA
Though his own panel recommended a civilian.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 28, 2014
Tech Companies Allowed to Reveal More About U.S. Surveillance, But Not Much
It’s a small step toward greater transparency.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 27, 2014
The NSA Has Its Eye on Your Angry Birds
And other “leaky” apps.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Jan. 24, 2014
Snowden Says He’d Like to Come Home, But Has ‘No Chance’ of a Fair Trial
Eric Holder says they can talk, if he’ll plead guilty.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 23, 2014
U.S. Sues Firm That Vetted Snowden for Fraud [UPDATED]
The government says 40 percent of its investigations were incomplete.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 22, 2014
Edward Snowden Insists He’s Not a Russian Spy
“Spies get treated better than that,” he said.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 21, 2014
Jon Stewart Not Buying Obama’s NSA Speech at All
“How do we stop this lose-lose?”
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Jan. 17, 2014
So What Did People Think of Obama’s NSA Speech?
Reactions from the chattering classes.
By
Adam Martin
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Jan. 17, 2014
President Obama Announces NSA Changes While Still Slighting Snowden
“The work has begun,” said the president today.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Jan. 17, 2014
Obama to Adjust How the Government Goes Through Your Phone Data
The president will announce a few new ideas at 11 a.m.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Jan. 17, 2014
As Obama Unveils NSA Reforms, Intelligence Community Is Still Seething
They have some pretty elaborate Snowden murder fantasies.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Jan. 15, 2014
Staying Off the Internet Won’t Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
The agency is planting retro radio-wave transmitters.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Jan. 13, 2014
NSA Phone-Data Collection May Be Useless, Likely Won’t Stop
Obama will announce some changes to the program on Friday.
By
Adam Martin
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Jan. 2, 2014
New York
Times
Strongly Suggests Obama Go Easy on Snowden
A new op-ed makes the case for clemency.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Dec. 29, 2013
The NSA Can Intercept and Bug Online Purchases
Doing things the old-fashioned way.
By
Caroline Bankoff
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Dec. 26, 2013
Merry Christmas From Edward Snowden
Don’t forget that the NSA is watching you.
By
Caroline Bankoff
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Dec. 23, 2013
Snowden Declares ‘I Already Won’ in First Moscow Interview
“In terms of personal satisfaction,” though he still can’t leave Russia.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Dec. 19, 2013
White House Panel Recommends Limits on NSA Surveillance
Obama is “open to many” changes, but doesn’t have to implement any of them.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Dec. 18, 2013
Brazil Wants Snowden to Stay in Russia for Now
They have no plans to offer asylum, though he asked nicely.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Dec. 16, 2013
60 Minutes
Gift Wrapped a Puff Piece for the NSA
Reporter John Miller delivers an uncritical look the agency.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Dec. 14, 2013
The NSA Couldn’t Manage to Monitor Edward Snowden
Ironic!
By
Caroline Bankoff
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Dec. 11, 2013
If Google Can Track Your Online Activity, It’s a Safe Bet the NSA Can Too
The NSA has mastered the use of cookies.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Dec. 9, 2013
NSA Also Spying on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live
The government has its eye on elves and orcs.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Dec. 9, 2013
Tech Giants Band Together to Fight Government Surveillance
In an open letter calling for reform.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Dec. 8, 2013
The NSA Would Really Appreciate a Visit From President Obama
Things are a little gloomy over there right now.
By
Caroline Bankoff
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Dec. 5, 2013
The NSA Tracks Billions of Cell Phone Locations Every Day
And everyone who targets cross paths with.
By
Margaret Hartmann
ink-stained wretches
Dec. 3, 2013
Guardian
Only Published 1 Percent of NSA Docs
“About one percent.”
By
Caroline Bankoff
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Nov. 27, 2013
NSA Spies on Porn Habits to Undermine Muslim ‘Radicalizers’
The latest juicy scoop from the Edward Snowden documents.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Nov. 26, 2013
Edward Snowden May Have a ‘Doomsday’ File
And can keep the leaks coming for the next two years.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Nov. 25, 2013
NSA Director Offered to Resign Over Snowden Leak
And miss out on all these fun congressional hearings?
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Nov. 15, 2013
The CIA Collects Data in Bulk, Just Like the NSA
Just sensitive financial information, not phone calls.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Nov. 8, 2013
Snowden Got Information by Simply Asking for Passwords
Not that complicated, really.
By
Adam Martin
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Nov. 7, 2013
AT&T Cashing in on CIA Spying
$10 million a year.
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Nov. 2, 2013
NSA: Germany Was ‘a Little Grumpy’ About Being Left Out of Spying Club
Espionage and hurt feelings.
By
Adam Martin
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Nov. 1, 2013
Merkel Revelation Costs Obama His European ‘BFF’
No more sunset chats about Greece’s debt crisis.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Oct. 31, 2013
Edward Snowden Got a Tech-Support Job
In Russia!
By
Joe Coscarelli
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Oct. 30, 2013
Russia Denies It Put Bugged USB Drives and Cables in G20 Gift Bags
Way more brazen than scooping up metadata.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Oct. 30, 2013
NSA Chief: Europeans Are Complaining About Their Own Spying Programs
Reports that the U.S. is responsible are “completely false.”
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Oct. 29, 2013
Obama May Ban Spying on Friendly Foreign Leaders
The rest of us should assume we’re being watched.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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Oct. 27, 2013
Officials Claim Obama Didn’t Know U.S. Was Spying on Other World Leaders
On the bright side, he wasn’t lying to Merkel.
By
Margaret Hartmann
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