Tag: Edward Snowden
Polis: House rushed Patriot Act reauthorization that failed to rein in...
Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis voted against the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday arguing that the bill to reauthorize and reform the Patriot Act...
Wiretap: Edward Snowden’s victory: House slashes at NSA surveillance
Cut back
Edward Snowden wins. A huge bipartisan majority in the House voted to curtail NSA surveillance, which should reverse the NSA's ability to gather...
The Snowden era: Tom Engelhardt interviews Laura Poitras
As voters begin casting their ballots in Colorado, many have lamented the issue-free campaigns that have dominated this year's midterm election season.
One of...
Udall ad depicts privacy advocate battling Bush, Obama
The Mark Udall campaign has taken a break from its reproductive-rights-themed campaign, notoriously labeled "obnoxious" by The Denver Post, with an ad that touts the senator's...
Udall so quiet on his big issue even the NSA can’t...
On the face of it, putting some congressional guardrails on the National Security Agency’s now notorious dragnet collection of citizens’ private communication data seems like the perfect stump for Udall and not a bad bet for Gardner.
News Poem: ‘Edward Snowden contemplates returning home’
The brain leaves us / wracked by nostalgic gifts.
Wiretap: Udall rails against ‘culture of misinformation’ on NSA spying
Udall's letter accused the administration of trying to "justify" now demonstrably false statements it made to the Supreme Court in a 2012 case involving NSA surveillance.
Wiretap: Mother Russia’s long trip back to the age of the...
The pessimistic view: "The effective annexation of Crimea marks the beginning of something new and ominous: not another Cold War but, rather, a revival of a chauvinistic and expansive Russian nationalism that goes back to the tsars."
Littwin on Senate-CIA spat: This time, no one is fleeing to...
The CIA-versus-Dianne Feinstein and Mark Udall story has got everything -- lying, stealing, bullying, spying, mendacity, audacity, betrayal and, of course, because it's 2014, hacking.
Wiretap: Ed Snowden is no Lena Dunham
"Line around the block for Lena Dunham panel. Walked right into the Edward Snowden panel.”