President Mojica of Uruguay has offered to receive some prisoners from Guantanamo in Uruguay. This may help make it possible to empty the camp, but to get all the way there depends on recognition by the US that it can't keep people prisoner without trial.

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.