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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What To Do About Surveillance and the FISA Court?
If we settle for merely feel-good reforms to FISA and security state overreach, there is a clear and present danger of another big scandal whenever the next Snowden blows the whistle.
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Germany's Euroskeptic "Alternative Party" Leads Fringe Heading into Sunday Elections
Alternative for Deutschland's success stems from its leaders exploiting Euroskepticism among Germans who feel their wealthy, productive country is unfairly shouldering the burden of economic growth in the E.U.
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Follow the Money: How the NSA Monitors the Financial World
Secret documents reveal that the main NSA financial database Tracfin already had 180 million datasets by 2011.
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Exposed: NSA and British Spy Agency Cracked Encryption Codes to Violate User Privacy
Edward Snowden's latest leaks reveal how U.S. and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked the online encryption relied on by hundreds of millions of people to protect their personal data.
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Der Spiegel: NSA Hacked UN Videocalls As Part of Surveillance Program
The extent of U.S. covert surveillance at the UN was further detailed Sunday in a report by Germany's leading weekly, which claimed agents hacked into video conferencing at New York headquarters.
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"Total Abuse of Power": How David Miranda Was Detained and Interrogated Under the Terrorism Act
David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the NSA, has accused Britain of a "total abuse of power" for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act.
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Exposed: IRS Is Colluding With Banks To Unfairly Target U.S. Citizens Abroad
BERLIN—Until she divulged her husband’s financial records to the IRS three years ago, Genette Eysselinck was a proud American, born on an Army base in North Carolina, and living in a small city in southern France.
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The NSA Is Turning the Internet Into a Total Surveillance System
Whether the National Security Agency inspects and retains messages for years, or only searches through them once before moving on, the invasion of Americans' privacy is real and immediate.
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Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs
Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.
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NSA Surveillance, the Occupy Movement and Defending Our Constitutional Rights
Our government has gone beyond its obligations to uphold the law and is blatantly violating constitutional freedoms.
