CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former Church Committee Staff.

As Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability to Record & Replay Every Call, Everywhere?

It states the general principle that we were protected in the past from a high level of surveillance because it was so difficult, but advances in surveillance technology took away our protection.

This article also explains how use of Google services (or any other remote server services) by people in an organization enables the NSA to identify the individuals in the organization.

A FISA court judge says, in effect, that the government lawyers misled him in court to get permission to delete data sought for activists' lawsuits.

Fox News plans to offer corporations a chance to present their point of view on TV, as if they weren't doing that all the time already.

US hawks make a misleading comparison between Ukraine and Afghanistan.

Judged against what was at stake in the Cold War — people today often forget what a tyranny the Soviet Union was, and how it kept other countries under a harsh empire — Brzezinski's clever plan was not obviously foolish. We can't blame people in 1979 for not envisioning that Islamic tyranny could return on a 12th-century model, or that Afghanistan would devolve into a state of permanent civil war lasting long after the Soviet Union ceased to exist.