What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy
A civil libertarian reflects on the dangers of the surveillance state. by Peggy Noonan What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary,…
The Debate Obama Never Wanted
In the NSA math, two additions plus one abuse equals a defensive president. by Major Garrett Edward Snowden has put words in President Obama’s mouth. Words like transparency, reform, openness,…
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times every year
by Barton Gellman The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in…
Poll shows “phony scandal” line not playing well
Not even with Democrats by Ed Morrissey After an avalanche of scandals hit the White House this spring, the Obama administration adopted the public-relations strategy of calling IRS political targeting,…
The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Obama’s Presidency
by Conor Friedersdorf Last Friday, President Obama spoke to us about surveillance as though we were precocious children. He proceeded as if widespread objections to his policies can be dispatched like…
European Perspective: Obama’s not to be trusted on foreign policy
Having declared an end to the War on Terror, the US president no longer has any clear idea of his country’s global role by Janet Daley The West can no…
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Top 13 Questions the Media Should be Asking
by Joel B. Pollak President Barack Obama rarely makes himself available to the mainstream media. They adore him anyway. At rare press conferences, such as the one scheduled for this…
Obama’s Strikingly Nixonian Scandals
Denial, evasion, “Let me be perfectly clear” — is this 2013 or 1973? by Victor Davis Hanson The truth about Benghazi, the Associated Press/James Rosen monitoring, the IRS corruption, the NSA octopus,…
Former Producer Rips MSNBC as Obama’s ‘Official Network’
by John Nolte Left-wing media critic Jeff Cohen has been all over cable news as a contributor, but for a time he worked as a senior producer for MSNBC. Monday,…