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I’ve been calling for the United States to prosecute Snowden from the day news broke about his NSA theft. Commentaries like “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic … and Misguided,” June 8, 2013, “I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy,” July 2, 2013, and “From Spycraft to Stagecraft, Snowden Debuts as Putin’s Useful Idiot,” April… Read more.
Edward Snowden made news this week with a plea for a presidential pardon that was as arrogant as it was pitiful. I have taken a lot of flak over the years for repeatedly denouncing him. Here are excerpts from just three of the commentaries I’ve written in this regard. __________________ From “Complaints about NSA Spying… Read more.
I sounded real alarms about private companies spying years before Edward Snowden sounded false alarms about government spying. . Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Beware: Google Declares ‘Nothing’s Private,’” December 8, 2009. ____________________ You’d better pray you are never prosecuted or sued for anything. Because not only Big Brother but even your civil… Read more.
As an unabashed liberal, I am dismayed at the number of liberal pundits, academics, politicians, journalists, and businessmen who have hailed Edward Snowden as a veritable Patrick Henry of the information age. In fact, their herd-like opinion in this respect is such that liberals would probably consider me a far greater traitor to my political… Read more.
A heretofore-obscure federal judge ruled on Monday that the National Security Agency’s program of collecting phone and email metadata from millions of Americans is “probably illegal.” Yet to listen to news reporters and legal pundits frothing at the mouth over his “powerful rebuke of mass surveillance,” you’d think it had the legal force of the… Read more.
Recent revelations about the NSA spying on American citizens have caused profound disillusionment within the liberal establishment. Nothing demonstrates this quite like the Huffington Post, the generally recognized portal of liberal politics online, posting on its front page a morphed image of George W. Bush and Barack Obama – complete with the damning caption “George W.… Read more.
