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Matthew D. Green thought his regular contributions to the growing public discourse on controversial online surveillance by the National Security Agency represented an achievement his superiors at the Johns Hopkins University would encourage. Then he got an email from the dean of the engineering school. - Bradley Manning, the junior Army analyst convicted of espionage for leaking thousands of classified documents, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, reigniting a debate over how far the government should go to punish those who publicize secret information.
- It will take more than President Obama's half-hearted promises of transparency to make Americans 'comfortable' with domestic surveillance.
- NSA leaker Edward Snowden's flight to Russia belies the government's bland assurances that the agency knows everything its employees are doing
- The general who led the Pentagon's review of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history told a military judge on Wednesday that their publication revealed tactics, strained relations with some allies and caused some Afghans to stop cooperating with Americans.
- A military judge ruled Tuesday that Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning violated the Espionage Act when he gave a trove of classified material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks to publish online. But Col. Denise Lind found the onetime Marylander not guilty of aiding the enemy.
- Pfc. Bradley Manning's leak of a massive trove of classified information was against the law, no matter his motivations, but it did not amount to aiding the enemy.
- Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning was looking for "worldwide notoriety" when he gave hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
- The American Civil Liberties Union says police are violating drivers' rights with license plate scanners that can be used to track their whereabouts with little oversight on how such data is used or stored.
- Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their defense of the Army analyst Monday by portraying him as a computer whiz operating under loose guidelines whose decision to leak reams of classified documents was based on a well-intentioned sense of idealism.
- The president should fire James Clapper and Keith Alexander over domestic spying revealed by Edward Snowden.
- Thanks to fugitive Snowden, U.S. is having a much-needed conversation about privacy rights
- By fleeing to Russia, NSA leaker Edward Snowden has forfeited any claim to the moral high ground of principled civil disobedience
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- The rise of Edward Snowden and his access to NSA secret raises numerous questions
- The Putin regime surely can't believe its luck in the arrival of the unwitting American whistleblower/defector Edward Snowden.
- I had a great chance today to be part of two panels on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that looked at how the media were framing the NSA surveillance story even as Edward Snowden was enroute to Moscow and points beyond looking for asylum in Equador.
- Our national security system's lack of checks and balances assures the abuse of power — unless a few brave souls step forward
- Jonah Goldberg writes that the NSA leaker seems to be a smart guy in thrall to foolish ideas.
- The Pentagon decision to suspend security clearance vetting for some defense contractors is likely to have little impact on either the Defense Department or private industry, officials from both said.
- Jules Witcover writes that President Obama is caught between his roles as commander in chief and defender of civil liberties.