The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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European Court Rules U.K.’s "Big Brother" Program A Violation of Privacy
Are people finally beginning to win the battle with their governments over mass surveillance?
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Edward Snowden: 'The People Are Still Powerless, But Now They're Aware'
Five years after historic NSA leaks, the whistleblower says he has no regrets.
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Hacktivists Are Helping Fight Terrorism. So Why Do So Many of Them Face Jailtime?
America's aggressive sentencing against computer crimes is unmatched by any nation, despite the U.S.'s long and storied history of celebrating peaceful civil disobedience.
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State Insecurity: Why Are Top NSA Personnel Leaving In Droves?
The National Security Agency's attrition rate for science, math and technology specialists is 5.6 percent, and for hackers and cyberattack specialists it is as high as 9 percent. Some teams in the NSA have lost as much as half their staff. What's going on?
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President Obama Has Commuted Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
While not technically a pardon, the order reduces Manning’s sentence from 35 years to just over seven years.
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Iceland, A Land of Vikings, Braces for a Pirate Party Takeover
The party that could be on the cusp of winning Iceland’s national elections on Saturday didn’t exist four years ago.
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Court Rules U.K. Mass Spying Was Unlawfully Conducted for Nearly Two Decades
Decision is called "long overdue indictment" of government's bulk collection of citizens' private information.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Snowden"
At the heart of Oliver Stone's new film is the evolution of inner turmoil and disillusion with the U.S. government that Edward Snowden felt in his work.
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President Obama, Pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has made grievous mistakes. To salvage his reputation, he should exonerate the two greatest whistleblowers of our age.
