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Why is O'Malley silent on NSA spying?
As it turns out, we are "one" Maryland, as Gov. Martin O'Malley likes to say — one Maryland under surveillance by thousands of people who live and work in this state. The fact that Maryland is the spy capital of the United States is the story...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, The Washington Post, Gun Control, National Security Agency, Executive Branch
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NSA surveillance sparks privacy debate
You make a call from your land line or text a friend from your smartphone. You browse an online retailer for clothing, a book or music; you create a wish list or write a review. You walk past a security camera outside your home; you use GPS to find...
Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Social Media, Electronics, Brookings Institution
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NSA leaks shift focus to intel contractors
An intelligence contractor's disclosure of covert National Security Agency surveillance programs reopened a debate Monday over how much the government relies on private companies for spy work and whether those firms must do more to vet employees and...
Tags: The Washington Post, Bradley Manning, General Contracting, Civil and Public Service, National Security Agency
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Racial profiling provision of immigration bill scrutinized
A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling. The 867-page,...
Tags: U.S. Senate, John Ashcroft , Frederick County (Maryland), Islam, U.S. Congress
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Snowden leak shows the weakness of oversight
The 29-year-old former CIA employee who admitted over the weekend to leaking documents about the National Security Agency's targeting of phone records, email accounts and Internet use of millions of Americans exemplified the ethical dilemma facing those...Tags: U.S. Congress, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, Prosecution
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Holding the national security course
President Barack Obama's latest changes in his top national security team seem more a shift to a stronger emphasis on human rights than a break with his long-range determination to keep the United States out of nation-building adventurism. His...
Tags: Susan Rice, Bill Clinton, Iraq, International Organizations, U.S. Department of State
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Privacy advocates outraged, but lawmakers defend collection of phone records
Privacy advocates expressed outrage Thursday over revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting telephone records of virtually every phone call made in the United States for seven years, but the Obama administration and a bipartisan...
Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, The Washington Post, Electronics, U.S. Senate, Justice System
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Ruppersberger: Cybersecurity bill is necessary, will not violate privacy
The Baltimore Sun's editorial, "Fight cyber attacks, not privacy" (May 3) does readers a true disservice by perpetuating several myths about this critical issue. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is simple, allowing the American...Tags: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Computer Crime, U.S. House of Representatives, Elections
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AP case fuels complaints on Obama whistle-blower policies
The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...Tags: Public Employees, U.S. Department of Defense, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Saturday Night Live (tv program), Justice System
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Gun advocates should take aim at real scandals
Last month, I received emails from two people I know but who don't know each other: one a close friend and Second Amendment supporter, and the other a regular reader who sends me news items she believes the "liberal media" are willfully suppressing....
Tags: Glenn Beck, Operation Fast and Furious, Gun Control, Fox News Channel (tv network), Personal Weapon Control
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Federal innovation a matter of perspective
The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...Tags: Public Employees, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of State, Environmental Politics, Space Programs
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Start snitching: the public's role in fighting terrorism
The arrest of three friends of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing reminds us of the consequences of withholding information from investigators, lying or being an accessory after the fact for a friend or loved one. In other words, if...
Tags: Times Square, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI, Terrorism, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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