Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Emails Reveal Google's Close Relationship with NSA Spy Chief
The National Security Agency head and the Internet giant’s executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions.
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As NSA-Heartbleed Story Deepens, Silicon Valley Prepares For A More Extended Battle
In San Francisco and the Bay Area especially, the Heartbleed bug has put the issue of privacy and online security at the forefront of Internet activism.
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Guardian and Washington Post Win Pulitzer Prize for NSA Revelations
The newspapers were awarded the highest accolade in U.S. journalism for their groundbreaking articles on the NSA’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
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04/10 Is National Day Of Action To Shut Down Spy Centers – With Demands
This week's action was organized by privacy groups across the country.
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Edward Snowden: U.S. Government Spied on Human Rights Workers
The whistleblower told Europe's top human rights body that the NSA deliberately snooped on groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
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Banning Warrantless Data, Utah Governor Signs Privacy Bill into Law
The bill makes any electronic data obtained by the NSA or other law enforcement without a warrant inadmissible in a criminal proceeding.
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Net Neutrality Wins In Brazil’s "Internet Constitution"
The groundbreaking legislation in South America’s biggest country would enshrine Net neutrality and attempt to curb NSA spying.
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Edward Snowden Calls Obama Plan for NSA Reform A “Turning Point”
Praising the president’s proposal to end NSA bulk data collection, Snowden says it “marks the beginning of a new effort to reclaim our rights from the NSA."
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Snowden Docs Reveal U.S. and U.K. Covert Surveillance, Pressure On WikiLeaks and Supporters
One classified document from the U.S. intelligence community recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Julian Assange over the WikiLeaks publication of the Afghanistan war logs.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
