Category: commentaries
POGO: Focus on Edward Snowden’s revelations–not distractions
After a government contractor exposed startling details about domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency, much of the public discussion centered about the whistleblower, Edward Snowden. In response, the Project on Government Oversight issued a public statement calling upon the…
The Price of Blowing the Whistle
by Julia Davis Edward Snowden set the world ablaze with revelations of overreaching surveillance, conducted by the American government against its own citizens. The excuse of “national security” often allows powers-that-be to avoid public scrutiny, effectively ending the discussion. However,…
Edward Snowden charged. I support them putting him in a cell next to the one where they keep Dick Cheney http://t.co/Lo3HZqAyy1
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 21, 2013
Stephen Colbert pwns critics of Edward Snowden
Senate staff instructed they are not to read NSA documents published by media outlets – must self-report if they do http://t.co/vspMYtgxKz
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 15, 2013
Coleen Rowley: Massive spying on Americans is outrageous
As a Special Agent for the FBI, Coleen Rowley testified before Congress in 2002 about the Bureau’s failure to nab terrorists planning the 9/11 attacks. That year, Time Magazine named her one of three “Persons of the Year.” Tuesday, in…