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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Courage Is Contageous: Renowned Whistleblowers Address the Post-Snowden World
The unprecedented persecution of truth-tellers, initiated by the Bush administration and severely accelerated by Obama, has been mostly ignored while record numbers are charged with serious felonies for letting their fellow citizens know what's going on.
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World's Leading Authors Condemn State Spying and Demand "Digital Bill of Rights"
Accusing the U.S., Britain and other states of systematically abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance, Don DeLillo, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee are among the renowned writers petitioning the U.N. for new civil rights protections.
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Under Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky
In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. What governments want is fake journalism, deferring to official storylines and respectful of authority even when it is illegitimate.
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Guardian News Staff May Face Terrorism Charges Over Snowden Leaks
The Guardian editor has been summoned to parliament, accused of helping terrorists by publishing the Edward Snowden leaks.
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Snowden Revelations Prompt UN Investigation Into Surveillance
The UN's senior counterterrorism official says Snowden's revelations "are at the very apex of public interest concerns."
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Op-Doc: Why Care About the NSA?
Edward Snowden has ignited a debate, and for that I am grateful. But now that he’s done his part, it’s time for all Americans to decide how to respond to his revelations. That is to say, it is no longer his story. It is ours.
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Revealed: U.S. and U.K. Struck Secret Deal Allowing NSA to "Unmask" Britons' Personal Data
In another Snowden revelation, a 2007 deal allowed the NSA to store previously restricted material in which U.K. citizens not suspected of wrongdoing were caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
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After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
Meet Perry Fellwock, the NSA's first whistleblower.
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Exposed: Private Firms Are Selling Mass Surveillance Systems Around World
Corporations sell spying tools at private trade fairs to developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with "off the shelf" equipment to allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to new documents.
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Banning Surveillance: What States and Localities Can Do About Drones
Cities from Minnesota and Virginia to Illinois and Massachusetts have passed legislation outlawing the use of aerial drones in their region. Now it's time for other cities, towns and counties to pass similar resolutions.
