The American Way of Spying
Spencer Ackerman : Non-Fiction
The history of American intelligence-gathering is rife with incompetence, dysfunction and contempt toward legislative oversight.
Spencer Ackerman : Non-Fiction
The history of American intelligence-gathering is rife with incompetence, dysfunction and contempt toward legislative oversight.
Aziz Huq
House Democrats capitulate to pass a surveillance bill that further compromises our privacy and limits accountability of the government and telecoms. Will the Senate fight back?
Robert Dreyfuss : John McCain
The GOP nominee favors unilateralism and "rogue state rollback."
The Editors : George W. Bush Administration
The House stalemate with the White House over electronic surveillance creates a rare moment to reconsider an array of unconstitutional post-9/11 laws.
Ari Melber : Civil Rights & Liberties
Democratic leaders are poised to validate Bush's illegal surveillance, giving up even more ground than their Republican colleagues did. Why?
As his fellow Democrats rush to pass the President's intelligence bill, Christopher Dodd stands his ground.
Aziz Huq : Civil Rights & Liberties
Telecommunications giants already are shielded from lawsuits for future warrantless spying; now the White House seeks to absolve them of past misdeeds.
David Cole : Civil Rights & Liberties
If it had followed the rule of law from the outset, the Bush Administration could have brought many terrorists to justice by now.
Aziz Huq : Constitutional Questions
Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get away with it?
Key aspects of national security, including intelligence and analysis used to create the President's Daily Brief, have been turned over to private corporations.
Bush's about-face on warrantless surveillance demonstrates what a difference a Democratic majority makes.
David Corn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The political culture of Washington is fueled by gossip, intrigue and leaks. It was a combination that turned toxic in the Valerie Plame Affair.
Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
: Torture
Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.
: George W. Bush Administration
The White House behaved unethically by exposing Valerie Plame's identity. Escaping prosecution is not the same as escaping judgment.
Valerie Plame was no mere analyst or paper-pusher at the CIA. She was an operations officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration: searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapon's of mass destruction.
If President Bush wants to tell the truth to the American public, he can make Cheney, Rove and Libby come clean about their role in the Plame affair.
Elizabeth de la Vega : President
OK, everyone who has studied the unitary executive theory of the presidency, raise your hand. Anyone? A former prosecutor examines what's behind Bush's legal fig leaf.
Alexander Cockburn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Any deed or disclosure that sabotages the CIA's capacity for covert operations deserves praise.
Team Bush has hunkered down and ignored press inquiries, hoping the storm surrounding Karl Rove will pass.
As Bush and his allies assail Newsweek, they continue to ignore the Downing Street memo.
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
In a more just universe, the right-wingers would give reporters the credit they so richly deserve.
Andrew Ackerman : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Why was a notorious mercenary awarded a $293 million Pentagon contract?