National Security Agency

By Alice Ross: In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan complex designed to store and trawl through billions of phone calls, emails, and other global communications. As the UK government reveals its own plans to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 4, 2012

Glenn Greenwald rips into liberals who defend President Obama's dismal record on civil liberties: A core plank in the Democratic critique of the Bush/Cheney civil liberties assault was the notion that the President could do whatever he wants, in secret and with no checks, to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 12, 2012