Monday, March 31

Why Edward Snowden should receive the Nobel Peace Prize

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I understand it's a very crowded field this year, with many worthy nominations.  Yet I do assert that Edward Snowden should receive the ...
Sunday, March 30

The Pirates of Libel Penance: Jay Currie channels Gilbert & Sullivan and Queen to bring fresh perspective to the defamation suit of "Dr Dawg" vs "Peter O’Donnell."

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Marc Lemire has sent me -- unsolicited, mind you -- his account of Day 1 of the trial. This means if I wanted to understand what the law su...
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Friday, March 28

Dr Dawg's Blawg trial: Please someone tell me Marc Lemire is making the whole thing up

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I've just discovered from an email sent last night that Canada's Marc Lemire has been live-blogging something called "the pseu...
Thursday, March 27

Washington Scenes

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Washington, D.C. has gotten a very bad name in recent years. But it's my home.  Here, a couple short stories dredged from my memory to i...
Wednesday, March 26

After all that Sturm und Drang

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After the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast and characters such as Joshua Foust and John R. Schindler worked up fantastic explanations in...
Tuesday, March 25

Are YOU a Snowden supporter? Then YOU are BETRAYING your COUNTRY by helping Putin.

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At any other time this nonsense wouldn't get out the gate. But fear and uncertainty in official Washington and London about the revelati...
Monday, March 24

A very brief reply to Lawfare's very brief reply to Glenn Greenwald

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"Greenwald may regard as jingoistic the distinction the [U.S.] law makes between [information] collection against U.S. persons and coll...
Sunday, March 23

Is it practical for governments to attempt to ban cyberwarfare?

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Lawfare's Matthew Waxman's recent discussion focused on the need for governments to work out international norms for their deployme...
Friday, March 21

Incoming NSA Director Understands Cyberwar Deterrence Value of Ed Snowden's Revelations

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"The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret." -- Dr Strangelove to the Russian Ambassador "Adm...
Wednesday, March 19

The Two Forces

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Two major formative forces in the United States:  the earliest one, which arose from the nomadic 'native' American hunting tribes, t...
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Tuesday, March 18

Ripped from the pages of the Ed Snowden Dossier:  The Nazification of American Liberalism

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Somewhere in a Remote, Wild Place Why there? Because these stories always happen in such places. And there must have been a trusty Native ...
Saturday, March 15

How Ed Snowden and his, er, agents are revitalizing American institutions on the front line of guarding the U.S. republic against becoming a tyranny

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"What was Edward Snowden supposed to do, call up the Senate Intelligence Committee and say, 'Hi, I'm a 29-year-old contractor w...
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Friday, February 28

File under Famous Last Words: For Washington "the age of easy hypocrisy is over"

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October  30; DW ( Deutsche Welle , Germany's international broadcaster): For US, 'the age of easy hypocrisy is over'   In the...

Your tax money at work: U.S., British spies in cahoots to collect and store

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The latest revelation from the Snowden Files.  Man, when he said "Truth is coming," nobody had any idea at the time how much and ...
Thursday, February 27

Um, is NSA IG George Ellard calling the NSA Director a "wacko bureaucrat?"

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On Tuesday   the NSA Inspector General, in a spirited defense of his office's record of handling complaints by NSA employees, got his to...
Tuesday, February 25

Tale of NSA Department, Ed Snowden, the Magic Lamp and the Stovepipe

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The NSA Department and the Magic Lamp Set aside the techno-babble and the tale of the purloined password.(1)  Edward Snowden got access t...