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This is a collection of news articles and commentary on the NSA warrantless surveillance, the MAINWAY NSA call database, the PRISM surveillance program and revelations made public by Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and other people who shared classified intelligence material.

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News aggregation

• www.realclearpolitics.com - Real Clear Politics

Announcement mailing lists and blogs

• pfir.org, People For Internet Responsibility list run by Lauren Weinstein. Here is Lauren's blog: lauren.vortex.com.
• Skating on Stilts - Stewart Baker's blog.
• The Long War Journal

News

2017

• Boston Globe: WikiLeaks releases alleged CIA hacking documents, by Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosenberg (Mar 7, 2017)
• Boston Globe: WikiLeaks claims Samsung TVs enable surveillance, unattributed (Mar 7, 2017)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications, by Charlie Savage (Jan 12, 2017)

2016

• New York Times: National Security Agency Said to Use Manhattan Tower as Listening Post, by Jim Dwyer (Nov 17, 2016)
• New York Times: Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say, by Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt (Nov 15, 2016)
• New York Times: Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools, by Scott Shane, Matt Apuzzo and Jo Becker (Oct 19, 2016)
• CNN: Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service', by Matthew Jaffe (May 30, 2016)

Nov 2015

• New York Times: Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program, by Charlie Savage (Nov 8, 2015)

Oct 2015

• New York Times: Battle Heats Up Over Exports of Surveillance Technology, by James Risen (Oct 30, 2015)

Sept 2015

• New York Times: Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access, by Matt Apuzzo, David E. Sanger and Michael S. Schmidt (Sept 6, 2015)
• CNN: China, Russia amassing personal info seized in hacks for counter-intelligence, by Jim Sciutto (Sept 2, 2015)

Aug 2015

• New York Times: AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, by Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen (Aug 14, 2015)

July 2015

• New York Times: N.S.A. Will Not Be Allowed to Keep Old Phone Records, by Charlie Savage (July 26, 2015)

June 2015

• New York Times: N.S.A. Eavesdropped on Last 3 French Presidents, WikiLeaks Says, by The Associated Press (June 23, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: U.S. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion by 2016, by Robert McMillan and Kim S. Nash (June 9, 2015)
• Washington Post: DOJ approved NSA targeting of foreign hacker ‘signatures’ under 2008 law, by Ellen Nakashima (June 4, 2015)
• New York Times: Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance, by Edward J. Snowden (June 4, 2015)
• New York Times: Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border, by Charlie Savage, Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson and Henrik Moltke (June 4, 2015)
• New York Times: U.S. Surveillance in Place Since 9/11 Is Sharply Limited, by Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weisman (June 2, 2015)
• CNN: Senate passes NSA reform measure, by Jeremy Diamond, Deirdre Walsh and Athena Jones (June 2, 2015)
• New York Times: In Debate Over Patriot Act, Lawmakers Weigh Risks vs. Liberty, by Peter Baker (June 1, 2015)

May 2015

• Washington Post: NSA may need to begin winding down surveillance program this week, by Mike DeBonis and Ellen Nakashima (May 19, 2015)
• New York Times: A Debate Over How Long Democracy Can Wage Battles in Shadows, by Charlie Savage (May 14, 2015)
• The Telegram: Mass. delegation divided as House votes to rein in NSA surveillance, by Peter Urban (May 13, 2015)
• The Intercept: Many of the NSA's loudest defenders have financial ties to NSA contractors, by Lee Fang (May 12, 2015)
• New York Times: Court Ruling on N.S.A.’s Data Collection Jolts Both Defenders and Reformers, by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer (May 9, 2015)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Phone Data Collection Is Illegal, Appeals Court Rules, by Charlie Savage and Jonathan Weisman (May 8, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: Germany Halts Some Intelligence Sharing With U.S., by Anton Troianovski (May 7, 2015)
• The Intercept: The Computers are Listening - How the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text, by Dan Froomkin (May 5, 2015)
• New York Times: Why the N.S.A. Isn’t Howling Over Restrictions, by Peter Baker and David E. Sanger (May 1, 2015)
• New York Times: A Bill’s Surveillance Limits, unattributed (May 1, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: A Top-Secret NSA Site Draws Swipes, Shrugs, by Damian Paletta (May 1, 2015)

Apr 2015

• New York Times: Deep Support in Washington for C.I.A.’s Drone Missions, by Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo (Apr 25, 2015)

Mar 2015

• Boston Globe: NSA discussed ending secret collection of calling records, by Ken Dilanian (Mar 30, 2015)
• New York Times: A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret, by Matt Richtel (Mar 16, 2015)
• New York Times: Book Review of ‘Data and Goliath’ by Bruce Schneier, by Jonathan A. Knee (Mar 15, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: CIA Gave Justice Department Secret Phone Scanning Technology, by Devlin Barrett (Mar 10, 2015)

Nov 2014

• Wall St Journal: U.S. Defends Marshals in Wake of Secret Cellphone Spying Report, by Devlin Barrett (Nov 14, 2014)
• Wall St Journal: Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program, by Devlin Barrett (Nov 13, 2014)

Oct 2014

• New York Times: Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S., by Ron Nixon (Oct 28, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Filmmaker focuses on Edward Snowden, his leaks, by Leon Neyfakh (Oct 27, 2014)
• Wired: NSA Mind-Bender: We Won’t Tell You What Info We Already Leaked to the Media, by Kim Zetter (Oct 9, 2014)

Sept 2014

• New York Times: Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal, by Eric Lichtblau (Sept 28, 2014)
• New York Times: Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A., by David E. Sanger and Brian X. Chen (Sept 27, 2014)
• ACLU: Documents in ACLU Case Reveal More Detail on FBI Attempt to Cover Up Stingray Technology, by Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project (Sept 24, 2014)
• Washington Post: Tech firm tries to pull back curtain on surveillance efforts in Washington, by Ashkan Soltani and Craig Timberg (Sept 17, 2014)
• New York Times: Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal, by James Bamford (Sept 16, 2014)
• Wall St Journal: Yahoo Faced Big U.S. Fines Over User Data, by Danny Yadron (Sept 11, 2014)
• Newsweek: Fake Cell Towers Allow the NSA and Police to Keep Track of You, by Lauren Walker (Sept 5, 2014)

Aug 2014

• Wired: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story, by James Bamford (Aug 22, 2014)

July 2014

• New York Time: N.S.A. Records Detail Surveillance of American Muslim Leaders, by Charlie Savage (July 10, 2014)
• The Intercept: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On, by Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain (July 9, 2014)
• Washington Post: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are, by Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani (July 5, 2014)

June 2014

• New York Times: British Spy Agencies Assert Power to Intercept Web Traffic, by Mark Scott (June 17, 2014)

May 2014

• New York Times: Snowden Says He Was Spy, Not Just an N.S.A. Analyst, by David S. Joachim and Scott Shane (May 29, 2014)

Apr 2014

• New York Times: Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say, by David E. Sanger (Apr 12, 2014)
• New York Times: Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras Are Among the Recipients of the Polk Award, by Ravi Somaiya and Noam Cohen (Apr 11, 2014)
• New York Times: U.S. Denies Knowledge of Heartbleed Bug on the Web, by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth (Apr 11, 2014)
• Ars Technica: Heartbleed vulnerability may have been exploited months before patch, by Sean Gallagher (Apr 9, 2014)
• The Guardian: NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails – Clapper, by Spencer Ackerman and James Ball (Apr 1, 2014)

Mar 2014

• Washington Post: Bipartisan House bill would end NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone data, by Ellen Nakashima (Mar 24, 2014)
• New York Times: Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection, by Charlie Savage (Mar 24, 2014)
• New York Times: After Reports On N.S.A., China Urges End to Spying, by Andrew Jacobs (Mar 24, 2014)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat, by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth (Mar 23, 2014)
• New York Times: U.S. Intelligence Officials Believe Snowden Is Working With Russia, Lawmaker Says, by Brian Knowlton (Mar 22, 2014)
• New York Times: Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies, by Claire Cain Miller (Mar 21, 2014)
• The Guardian: US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists, by Spencer Ackerman (March 19, 2014)
• Ars Technica: Snowden: Big revelations to come, reporting them is not a crime, by David Rowan, wired.co.uk (Mar 18, 2014)
• Ars Technica: WaPo: NSA records every phone call in one unnamed country, by Joe Mullin (Mar 18, 2014)
• The Guardian: Pentagon watchdog 'not aware' of NSA bulk phone data collection, by Spencer Ackerman (Mar 18, 2014)
• New York Times: Leaked File Details U.S. Phone Monitoring Abroad, by James Glanz (Mar 18, 2014)
• Washington Post: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls, by Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani (Mar 18, 2014)
• The Intercept: Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA, by Glenn Greenwald (Mar 13, 2014)
• The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg: US government surveillance is a threat to the internet, by Amanda Holpuch (Mar 13, 2014)
• Ars Technica: New NSA chief explains agency policy on “zero-day” exploits to Senate, by Sean Gallagher (Mar 13, 2014)
• Ars Technica: NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world, by Sean Gallagher (Mar 12, 2014)
• The Intercept: How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware, by Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald (Mar 12, 2014)
• Washington Post: Ranking Intelligence Committee member seeks to end NSA bulk phone data collection, by Ellen Nakashima (Mar 12, 2014)
• The Guardian: NSA nominee Michael Rogers: agency must be more accountable to US public, by Jon Swaine (Mar 11, 2014)
• New York Times: How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach, by Charlie Savage and Laura Poitras (Mar 11, 2014)
• New York Times: Snowden Says He Reported N.S.A. Surveillance Concerns Before Leaks, by Charlie Savage (March 7, 2014)

Feb 2014

• The Guardian: David Miranda detention at Heathrow airport was lawful, high court rules, by Alan Travis, Matthew Taylor and Patrick Wintour (Feb 19, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Warrants needed for cellphone location data, SJC rules, by Martin Finucane and Hiawatha Bray (Feb 18, 2014)

Feb 2013

• BBC: Data protection: Angela Merkel proposes Europe network (Feb 15, 2013)
• Washington Post: NSA employee implicated in Snowden probe resigned, memo says, by Ellen Nakashima (Feb 13, 2013)
• Washington Post: Snowden lawyer: He may address password allegations soon, by Erik Wemple (Feb 13, 2013)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Ousts Civilian Employee Tied to Snowden Leaks, by David E. Sanger (Feb 13, 2013)
• The Intercept: The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program, by Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald (Feb 10, 2013)
• New York Times: New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time, by Craig Timberg (Feb 5, 2013)
• New York Times: The Needles in the Monumental N.S.A. Haystack, by Michiko Kakutani (Feb 4, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Internet firms release data on NSA requests, by Stephen Braun and Michael Liedtke, the Associated Press (Feb 4, 2013)
• The Guardian: Senior US congressman Mike Rogers: Glenn Greenwald 'a thief', by Spencer Ackerman (Feb 4, 2013)
• The Guardian: Lawyers for Lavabit founder: judges may dismiss civil liberties concerns, by Dominic Rushe (Feb 1, 2013)
• New York Times: Vice Admiral to Be Named N.S.A. Director, by David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker (Jan 30, 2013)
• The Guardian: James Clapper calls for Snowden and 'accomplices' to return NSA documents, by Spencer Ackerman (Jan 29, 2013)
• Boston.com: Gov't, Internet companies reach deal on disclosure, by jesse J. Holland, Associated Press (Jan 17, 2014)
• New York Times: Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data, by James Glanz, Jeff Larson and Andrew W. Lehren (Jan 27, 2013)
• The Guardian: German TV: Edward Snowden says NSA is involved in industrial sabotage, by Reuters (Jan 26, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA domestic surveillance condemned in Republican party resolution, by Dan Roberts (Jan 24, 2013)
• New York Times: Pentagon Study Finds Agencies Ill Equipped to Detect Foreign Nuclear Efforts, by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad (Jan 23, 2013)
• Washington Post: Snowden denies stealing passwords to access secret files, by Greg Miller (Jan 23, 2013)
• The Guardian: US hints at Edward Snowden plea bargain to allow return from Russia, by Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts (Jan 23, 2013)
• The Guardian: US charges security check firm that vetted Edward Snowden with fraud, by the Associated Press (Jan 23, 2013)
• The Guardian: US government privacy board says NSA bulk collection of phone data is illegal, by Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts (Jan 23, 2013)
• Washington Post: Verizon transparency report reveals 320,000 data requests in 2013, by Brian Fung (Jan 22, 2013)
• Washington Post: Obama goal for quick revamp of NSA program may be unworkable, some U.S. officials fear, by Sari Horwitz and Ellen Nakashima (Jan 21, 2013)
• New York Times: Snowden Denies Suggestions That He Was a Spy for Russia, by Charlie Savage (Jan 21, 2013)
• New Yorker: Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story Absurd, by Jane Mayer (Jan 21, 2013)
• New York Times: Congressional Leaders Suggest Earlier Snowden Link to Russia, by Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger (Jan 19, 2013)
• The Guardian: Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public, by Glenn Greenwald (Jan 17, 2013)
• New York Tims: Obama Calls for Overhaul of N.S.A.’s Phone Data Collection Program, by Mark Landler and Peter Baker (Jan 17, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA: six out of 10 Americans want reform of data collection, says poll, by Spencer Ackerman (Jan 16, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep, by James Ball (Jan 16, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA reform measures quietly included in $1.1tn spending bill, by Dan Roberts (Jan 15, 2013)
• Ars Technica: NSA uses covert radio transmissions to monitor thousands of bugged computers, by Megan Geuss (Jan 15, 2013)
• Associated Press: Spy Court Judge Slams Privacy Advocate, by Stephen Braun and Kimberly Dozier (Jan 14, 2013)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers, by David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker (Jan 14, 2013)
• New York Times: Obama to Place Some Restraints on Surveillance, by Peter Baker and Charlie Savage (Jan 14, 2013)
• Washington Post: Snowden downloaded 1.7 million intelligence files, Pentagon report concludes, by Ellen Nakashima (Jan 9, 2013)
• Wired: How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet, by Steven Levy (Jan 7, 2013)
• The Guardian: Clapper did not lie to Congress on NSA, says national intelligence counsel, by Martin Pengelly (Jan 4, 2013)
• Washington Post: The NSA refuses to deny spying on members of Congress, by Brian Fung (Jan 4, 2013)
• New York Times: Moves to Curb Spying Help Drive the Clemency Argument for Snowden, by Peter Baker (Jan 4, 2013)
• Washington Post: NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption, by Steven Rich and Barton Gellman (Jan 2, 2013)
• The Guardian: ACLU will appeal ruling that NSA bulk phone record collection is legal, by Spencer Ackerman (Jan 2, 2013)
• New York Times: Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower, by the Editorial Board (Jan 1, 2013)

Dec 2013

• Ars Technica: Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic, by Sean Gallagher (Dec 31, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA 'hacking unit' infiltrates computers around the world – report, by Joanna Walters (Dec 29, 2013)
• Der Spiegel: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit, by Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Christian Stöcker, Jörg Schindler and Holger Stark (Dec 29, 2013)
• New York Times: This Week, Mass Surveillance Wins, by the Editorial Board (Dec 27, 2013)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules, by Michael S. Schmidt and Adam Liptak (Dec 27, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Snowden says surveillance was worse than Orwell’s ‘1984’, by Griff Witte, Washington Post (Dec 26, 2013)
• The Guardian: Bletchley Park accused of airbrushing Edward Snowden from history, by Matthew Weaver (Dec 25, 2013)
• Washington Post: Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished, by Barton Gellman (Dec 23, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Intelligence chief details start of NSA phone sweeps, by Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press (Dec 22, 2013)
• Salted Hash blog: RSA sidesteps allegations by Reuters – Denies secret contract with NSA, by Steve Ragan (Dec 22, 2013)
• Ars Technica: Critics: NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed, by Dan Goodin (Dec 20, 2013)
• Ars Technica: Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default, by Peter Bright (Dec 20, 2013)
• Reuters: Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer, by Joseph Menn (Dec 20, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Panel outlines ways to resolve legal confrontation over NSA, by the Editorial Board (Dec 20, 2013)
• The Guardian: Congressional NSA critics: review panel report gives 'momentum' for reform, by Spencer Ackerman (Dec 19, 2013)
• The Guardian: Republicans demand consequences for 'willful lie' by intelligence chief, by Spencer Ackerman (Dec 19, 2013)
• Washington Post: Obama promises review of NSA spying program, possible reforms, by Philip Rucker and David Nakamura (Dec 19, 2013)
• New York Times: N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite, by James Glanz and Andrew W. Lehren (Dec 20, 2013)
• Washington Post: Officials’ defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling, by Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima (Dec 19, 2013)
• The Guardian: Obama review panel: strip NSA of power to collect phone data records, by Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman (Dec 18, 2013)
• New York Times: Obama Panel Recommends New Limits on N.S.A. Spying, by David E. Sanger and Charlie Savage (Dec 18, 2013)
• Ars Technica: Silicon Valley to White House, NSA: “What the hell are you doing?”, by Cyrus Farivar (Dec 18, 2013)
• Washington Post: NSA shouldn’t keep phone database, review board recommends, by Ellen Nakashima and Ashkan Soltani (Dec 18, 2013)
• New York Times: White House Speeds Release of Report on Changes to N.S.A., by David E. Sanger (Dec 18, 2013)
• Washington Post: Tech executives to Obama: NSA spying revelations are hurting business, by Cecilia Kang and Ellen Nakashima (Dec 17, 2013)
• Bloomberg: Yahoo’s Mayer Said to Warn of Web Balkanization in Spying, by Chris Strohm and Margaret Talev (Dec 17, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Judge rules against phone record collection by NSA, by Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press (Dec 16, 2013)
• Forbes: An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses', by Andy Greenberg (Dec 16, 2013)
• The Guardian: Edward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures, by Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman (Dec 16, 2013)
• Washington Post: Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is probably unconstitutional, by Ellen Nakashima and Ann E. Marimow (Dec 16, 2013)
• New York Times: A Powerful Rebuke of Mass Surveillance, by the Editorial Board (Dec 16, 2013)
• New York Times: Federal Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Phone Data Program, by Charlie Savage (Dec 16, 2013)
• Fox News: Judge deals blow to NSA phone data program, by Fox News (Dec 16, 2013)
• Ars Technica: Federal judge finds NSA spying unconstitutional, by Joe Mullin (Dec 16, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules, by Guardian staff (Dec 16, 2013)
• CNN: Judge: NSA phone surveillance program unconstitutional, by Bill Mears (Dec 16, 2013)
• The Guardian: NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report, by Spencer Ackerman (Dec 16, 2013)

Commentary

Dec 2013

• USA Today: NSA surveillance reforms lack substance, by Jonathan Turley (Dec 19, 2013)

Oct 2013

• The Guardian: Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public, by Bruce Schneier (Oct 4, 2013)

Sept 2013

• The Guardian: Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media, by Lisa O'Carroll (Sept 27, 2013)
• Daily Dot: 'South Park' tackles the NSA, just not as expected, by Dell Cameron (Sept 26, 2013)
• South Park: Let Go Let Gov episode (Sept 25, 2013)
• IEEE Security & Privacy: The End of National Security Reporting?, by Jeff Stein
• IEEE Security & Privacy: Big Data, Big Brother, Big Money, by Michael Lesk, July/Aug. 2013 (Vol. 11, No. 4) pp. 85-89.
• Slate: The Rest of the Snowden Files Should Be Destroyed, by Thomas Rid (Sept 10, 2013)
• A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering Blog: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering, by Matthew Green (Sept 10, 2013)
• The Guardian: The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back, by Bruce Schneier (Sept 5, 2013)

Before Sept 2013

• Washington Post: The NSA unravels a civil rights-era victory, by Danielle Allen (Aug 29, 2013)
• Washington Post: The NSA is losing the benefit of the doubt, by Ruth Marcus (Aug 22, 2013)
• Washington Post: Bradley Manning’s sentence and the zealous national-security state, by Dana Milbank (Aug 22, 2013)
• The Independent: We’ve come a long way. Last time, the harassed Brazilian was shot dead, by Matthew Norman (Aug 20, 2013)
• Washington Post: The price Gina Gray paid for whistleblowing, by Dana Milbank (Aug 20, 2013)
• National Review: NSA Critics, Right All Along, by Charles C.W. Cooke (Aug 19, 2013)
• CNN: Al Qaeda leader's 'I told you so' on Egypt, by Peter Bergen (Aug 15, 2013)
• National Journal: The Debate Obama Never Wanted, by Major Garrett (Aug 13, 2013)
• New York Times: Obama, Snowden and Putin, by Thomas L. Friedman (Aug 13, 2013)
• The Guardian: How much data the NSA really gets, by Jeff Jarvis (Aug 13, 2013)
• Washington Post: What NSA reforms?, by Eugene Robinson (Aug 12, 2013)
• New York Times: Breaking Through Limits on Spying, by the Editorial Board (Aug 8, 2013)
• JohnLewis.House.Gov: Rep. John Lewis: No Praise for Snowden, Press Release (Aug 8, 2013)
• Washingtopn Post: How much is Putin really in charge of the Snowden crisis?, by Max Fisher (Aug 8, 2013)
• The Guardian: On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition, by Glenn Greenwald (Aug 7, 2013)
• The Guardian: Veteran civil rights leader: Snowden acted in tradition of civil disobedience, by Paul Lewis (Aug 7, 2013)
• PressThink blog: The Toobin principle, by Jay Rosen (Aug 6, 2013)
• The Atlantic: The Soviet-Era Strategy That Explains What Russia Is Doing With Snowden, by Olga Khazan (Aug 2, 2013)
• The Atlantic: Why Wasn't the NSA Prepared?, by Allan Friedman (Aug 2, 2013)
• Foreign Policy: Declaring an End to the Decade of Fear, by Daid Rothkopf (Aug 1, 2013)
• New Yorker Blog: Presenting XKeyscore: What The NSA Is Still Hiding, by Amy Davidson (Aug 1, 2013)
• New Yorker Blog: Manning Guilty -- But Not Of Aiding The Enemy, by Amy Davidson (July 30, 2013)
• The Guardian: Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy, by Glenn Greenwald (July 29, 2013)
• New Yorker Blog: Holder: We Won't Torture Or Kill Snowden, by Amy Davidson (July 26, 2013)
• CNN: Ex-CIA chief: What Edward Snowden did, by Michael Hayden (July 19, 2013)
• New York Times: How Acceptable Was Anonymous Speculation About Snowden’s Laptops?, by Margaret Sullivan (July 11, 2013)
• Wall St Journal blog: Whistleblowers, by Peggy Noonan (July 9, 2013)
• The Guardian: US must fix secret Fisa courts, says top judge who granted surveillance orders, by Dan Roberts (July 9, 2013)
• Commentary: Snowden’s Nuclear War on Intelligence, by Jonathan Tobin (July 9, 2013)
• New York Times: The Laws You Can’t See, by the Editorial Board (July 7, 2013)
• Washington Post: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S., by Daniel Ellsberg (July 7, 2013)
• Der Spiegel: Deutschland und der Überwachungsskandal: Wir Untertanen, by Jakob Augstein (July 8, 2013)
• The Atlantic: The British Are Coming—and They've Brought Newspapers, by Nicky Woolf (July 5, 2013)
• The Guardian: Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, not a spy – but do our leaders care?, by Spencer Ackerman (July 5, 2013)
• The Guardian: Oliver Stone defends Edward Snowden over NSA revelations, by Xan Brooks (July 5, 2013)
• Washington Post: We can handle the truth on NSA spying, by Eugene Robinson (July 4, 2013)
• Washington Post: Suspicion of manhunt follows Snowden case, by Greg Miller (July 4, 2013)
• New York Times: Listening In on Europe, by the editorial board (July 2, 2013)
• Time: NSA Scandal: As Tech Giants Fight Back, Phone Firms Stay Mum, by Sam Gustin (July 3, 2013)
• Foreign Policy: Gentlemen, Calm Yourselves, by Denis MacShane (July 2, 2013)
• Washington Post: Snowden is undermining his cause in the United States, by Dana Milbank (July 2, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Ham-handed handling of snooping, by Scot Lehigh (July 3, 2013)
• Süddeutsche Zeitung: Flüchtling Snowden - Symbol des Widerstands, by Heribert Prantl (July 3, 2013)
• Salon: Meet the “Journalists Against Journalism” club!, by David Sirota (July 2, 2013)
• The Guardian: America's founders would be horrified at this United States of Surveillance, by Dan Gillmor (July 2, 2013)
• The Guardian: The cyber-intelligence complex and its useful idiots, by Barrett Brown (July 1, 2013)
• Washington Post: The danger of what Edward Snowden has not revealed, by Marc A. Thiessen (July 1, 2013)
• Washington Post: Plugging the leaks in the Edward Snowden case, by the Editorial Board (July 1, 2013)
• Washington Post: Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials, by Greg Miller (June 30, 2013)
• Ars Technica: How a 30-year-old lawyer exposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans—in 1975, by Nate Anderson (June 30, 2013)

Project SHAMROCK allowed the NSA to intercept telegrams sent by US citizens.

• Der Spiegel: NSA-Spähprogramm in Deutschland: Dame, König, As, Spion, by Veit Medick (June 30, 2013)
• New York Times: Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him, by Malte Spitz (June 29, 2013)
• The Rolling Stone: Hey, MSM: All Journalism is Advocacy Journalism, by Matt Taibbi (June 27, 2013)
• Washington Post: Fallout from Snowden’s sharing of NSA secrets, by David Ignatius (June 26, 2013)
• The Fiscal Times: What’s at Stake in the 21st Century Cold War, by David Francis (June 25, 2013)
• CNN: Why Ecuador might shelter Snowden, by Steve Striffler (June 25, 2013)

Steve Striffler holds the Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies and is a professor of anthropology and geography at the University of New Orleans.

• The New York Times blog: Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones, by Heather Murphy (June 25, 2013)
• The Washington Post: Through Snowden, Ecuador seeks fight with U.S., by Juan Forero (June 24, 2013)
• The Washington Post: U.S. worried about security of files Snowden is thought to have, by Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller (June 24, 2013)
• The New York Times: The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger, by David Carr (June 24, 2013)
• The Nation blog: Glenn Greenwald Is 'Aiding and Abetting' Democracy, by John Nichols (June 24, 2013)
• Skating on Stilts blog: What the Prism Stories Tell Us About the Press, by Stewart Baker (June 23, 2013)
• The Washington Post: On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than a reporter?, by Paul Farhi (June 23, 2013)
• Washington Post: NSA surveillance may be legal — but it’s unconstitutional, by Laura K. Donohue (June 23, 2013)

Laura K. Donohue is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and director of Georgetown’s Center on National Security and the Law.

• New York Times: Privacy and the Threat to the Self, by Michael P. Lynch (June 22, 2013)

Michael P. Lynch is a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut and the author of "In Praise of Reason", ISBN 978-0262017220, and "Truth as One and Many," ISBN 978-0199596300. He is at work on a new book, "Prisoners of Babel: Knowledge in the Datasphere."

• Skating on Stilts blog: But Enough About You ..., by Stewart Baker (June 20, 2013)
• Washington Post: Congress should hang up the NSA phone tracking, by Eugene Robinson (June 20, 2013)
• Washington Post: The NSA state of secrecy must end, by Katrina vanden Heuvel (June 18, 2013)
• Washington Post: Congress has become a rubber stamp for the NSA, by Dana Milbank (June 18, 2013)
• The Guardian: Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden, by Pratap Chatterjee (June 14, 2013)
• Washington Post: The left turns compliant on violating civil liberties, by Dana Milbank (June 14, 2013)
• mediamatters4america: FOX's Hannity: Then and Now on NSA programs (June 12, 2013)
• The Washington Post: Edward Snowden’s grandiosity, by Matt Miller (June 11, 2013)
• The Washington Post: Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks show we need a debate, by Eugene Robinson (June 10, 2013)
• The Washington Post: Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy, by Dana Milbank (June 10, 2013)
• The New York Times blog: The Stickers on Edward Snowden’s Laptop, by John Schwartz (June 10, 2013)
• The New Yorker blog: Edward Snowden Is No Hero , by Jeffrey Toobin (June 10, 2013)
• The New York Times blog: David Simon, Creator of ‘The Wire,’ Debates N.S.A. Surveillance With Readers of His Blog, by Robert Mackey (June 7, 2013)
• Via Meadia: Public Peace, Secret War: The Snooping Scandals and The President’s War Strategy, by Walter Russell Mead (June 6, 2013)
• The Atlantic: Government Surveillance Only Hurts When it Hits Home, by Wendy Kaminer (Mar 29, 2012)

Books

• Big Data, by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, ISBN 978-0544002692. Reviews:
  • New York Times: Watched by the Web: Surveillance Is Reborn, by Michiko Kakutani (June 10, 2013)
• Who Owns The Future?, by Jaron Lanier (May 7, 2013), ISBN 978-1451654967. Reviews:
  • New York Times: Fighting Words Against Big Data, by Janet Maslin (May 5, 2013)
• The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr (Apr 16, 2013), ISBN 978-0385536479. Reviews:
  • New York Times: Superpower, Leading From Behind: ‘The Dispensable Nation,’ by Vali Nasr, by Michiko Kakutani (Apr 18, 2013)
  • New York Times: Former Adviser Criticizes Obama on Afghan War, by Michael R. Gordon (Mar 3, 2013)
  • New York Times: Beltway Foreign Policy, by Roger Cohen (Feb 18, 2013)
• Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield, by Jeremy Scahill (2013), ISBN 978-1568586717
• The Signal And The Noise, by Nate Silver (Sep 27, 2013), ISBN 978-1594204111. Reviews:
  • New York Times: Known Unknowns, by Noam Schreiber (Nov 2, 2013)
• Kill or Capture, by Daniel Klaidman (June 5, 2012), ISBN 978-0547547893. Reviews:
  • New Yorker Blog: Kill Or Capture, by Steve Coll (Aug 2, 2013)
  • The Federalist Society Blog: Book Review: Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, by Matthew Heiman (Feb 13, 2013)
  • Washington Post: Book review: Daniel Klaidman’s ‘Kill or Capture’ and David Sanger’s ‘Confront and Conceal’, by Dina Temple-Raston, (June 15, 2012)
• Confront and Conceal, by David E. Sanger (2012), ISBN 978-0307718020. Review:
  • Lawfare Blog: Book Review: Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power by David E. Sanger, by Amy Sennett (Sept 30, 2012). This is also a review of Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, by Daniel Klaidman, ISBN 978-0547547893 (2012)
• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill, ISBN 978-1560259794
• Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today, by Wendy Kaminer (2002), ISBN 978-0807044117

Articles

• Congressional Research Service: Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities and Recent Developments, by Edward C. Liu, Andrew Nolan, Richard M. Thompson II (Apr 1, 2014)
• Congressional Research Service: Reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts: A Brief Overview, by Jared P. Cole, Andrew Nolan (Mar 31, 2014)
• Stone, Marjorie. On the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844. BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.
• Lawson, Kate. Personal Privacy, Letter Mail, and the Post Office Espionage Scandal, 1844. BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.