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NSA surveillance defeats democracy
"And so the charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air. Built on misrepresentation. Supported by unfounded fear. Held aloft by hysteria. On this and every other tool provided in the Patriot Act, charges of abuse of power...Tags: Security Measures, Arts and Culture, Lawyers, Elections, American Civil Liberties Union
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Dick Cheney talks to 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerFormer Vice President Dick Cheney will weigh in on the controversy over the National Security Agency in an interview this weekend on "Fox News Sunday." The program airs at 10 a.m. Sunday on WOFL-Channel 35. Fox News stressed that it will be the...Tags: Juan Williams, Jane Harman, News Media, Fox News Channel (tv network), Dick Cheney
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George Michael: The president's empty promises
There is a deep and pervasive disease in the current presidential administration. Hope and Change has turned into Hype and Chance. In last Saturday’s Herald-Mail, an AP article recounted the president’s defense of our government’s...Tags: Lawyers, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Government
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Budgets rebound but states to limit spending increases
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. states are set to end this fiscal year in solid financial shape, but a report on Thursday said an array of threats including federal budget cuts and potential sales tax declines will keep state spending. The survey of...Tags: Government, Finance, National Government, Medicaid, Politics
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Our Voice: Paper mail more secure than computer mail
Now that Americans have been reminded that the government is really, really, really interested in our emails and text messages, it makes us think of the alternatives. We should have picked up on this idea during the George W. Bush administration,...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery, Barack Obama
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Liberties we cherish seem to be on the line
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem a passing migraine....Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Freedom of the Press, U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama
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Special Report: Iran, the United States and 'the cup of poison'
ReutersNEW YORK/ANKARA (Reuters) - Five months ago Iran's foreign minister sent an unusual letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was time, Ali Akbar Salehi wrote according to two sources who read the letter, to reach out to Tehran'...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Elections, John Bryson, Russia
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Snooping, past and present
For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Congress, Gerald Ford, Central Intelligence Agency, Dick Cheney
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Are you a partisan hypocrite? Or just someone who trusts one party more than the other?
Change of SubjectAmong the cross-tabs in the polling about which Jessica wrote earlier today is this: When George W. Bush was president, 37 percent of Democrats approved of NSA surveillance. Now that Barack Obama is president (and the extent of the surveillance...... -
Sunnylands presidential summit spotlights estate's public mission
Even when it was just an architectural glimmer in the eye of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, the desert estate where President Barack Obama will greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was never in danger of being confused with a mere vacation house....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Camp David, Architecture, Barack Obama, Arts
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Obama administration on defensive over surveillance activity
Reuters* PRISM monitoring program raises privacy concerns * Government said to tap into companies' central servers * Program started under Bush, expanded under Obama WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - Reports of sweeping U.S. government surveillance of Americans'...Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Google Inc., FBI, Henry A Waxman
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At White House, liberal hawks ascend
With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Carl Levin, Elections, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
Jun 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 13, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Jun 12, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Jun 11, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Jun 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 7, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Jun 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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