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Contributor to the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Century Foundation; author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency; former Contributing Editor-at-Large for Time magazine; former Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for the Washington Post
NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Today's Washington Post reports that the National Security Agency has broken privacy rules thousands of times every year — and the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court charged with oversight says its limited resources give it no choice but to "trust the government" to report such violations.
Did Mitt Romney Manage to Woo Undecided Voters? Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a tough challenge facing him last night in Tampa.
History According to Cheney in His New Memoir Former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, In My Time , was officially released yesterday, but advance copies have been poured over by many reviewers. Barton Gellman, contributing editor for Time magazine, is the author of Angler , a book on the former vice president and avid fly-fisherman.
Cheney Takes to the Airwaves (Again) to Criticize Obama George Bush is maintaining the tradition of silence for presidents and vice-presidents recently out of office. Not so Dick Cheney . The former Vice President is waging what one reporter called a “one-man assault on President Obama,” with condemnations of policies and personal behavior.
The CIA Then and Now, and the Role of Dick Cheney Today, the CIA released 693 pages of reports about 25 years of illegal activities during the 1950's, 60's and 70's, a report nick-named " Family Jewels ." It tells of illegal wiretaps and domestic surveillance, assassination plots and human experimentation.
Belly up to the Barr Bill Barr is set to reprise his role as Attorney General, but this time for the Trump administration. Why would he want the job now?
Do it for the kids, Gavin Gavin Newsom’s early policy proposals offer a glimmer of hope for California’s youngest residents.
National Security: An Adult in the Room America’s mainstream media are obsessed with President Trump’s off-hand policymaking in military and foreign affairs. But his mistakes don’t justify the unquestioned authority given the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI. William Arkin is quitting NBC News with a scathing assessment. He says the national security state has created a condition of “perpetual war” without making America safer--and that the media are failing to report it. L ater on our Climate Change Update segment: how the government shutdown is hurting American science.
Trump‘s Wall and the Politics of ‘Us Versus Them’ Politically, Trump’s great wall may not be worth the government shutdown. But it appeals to his base, including evangelical Christians. As the country’s white, protestant majority gives way to diversity, some fear that the essence of America is changing. Opposition to immigration in Western Europe is no coincidence.
