US citizens: call on Congress not to allow "fast track" for the TPP.

Some NSA agents snoop on people they are attracted to.

Thugs have done this for ages ("running a plate for a date"), so it does not surprise me at all that NSA agents do it too. The crucial point is that there is nothing in the system to stop them from snooping on anyone they wish.

This validates Snowden's point that he could snoop on anyone. He wasn't "authorized" to do so, but he could do it.

The NSA staff call it "loveint", and the NSA punishes it, but only when it finds out. If a few cases have been discovered, there were probably many more that the NSA doesn't know about.

Manning has asked Obama for a pardon, and in the process, has taken back the ill-conceived apology.

Amnesty International says Obama should commute Manning's sentence and investigate the abuses he exposed.

I think Amnesty's stand is too weak. It should ask for a pardon, not a commutation.

A 2011 FISA court decision, published in fragmentary form, rebuked the NSA for unconstitutionally stretching its surveillance powers.

A teenager in the Maldive Islands will not be flogged for having been raped.

This is a step forward, but they must do more: people who have sex voluntarily should not be punished either.

Can you guess which religion dominates the Maldive Islands?