Sign the petition With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute/prosecute him as a leaker, it's easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes...
It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
A new petition at the White House's portal is calling for President Obama to immediately an unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for leaking the truth about the NSA's huge overarching surveillance of everyday Americans. The US hasn't charged Snowden yet, of course,...
The leaks about America's ever growing (and already ridiculously large) surveillance state came with a handy list of nine companies that joined the program. Those companies are, per the NSA's own leaked data, giving the NSA direct access to their servers and,...
Today Edward Snowden, a former computer analyst for the CIA recently employed at the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, voluntarily revealed his identity as the source of The Guardian and The Washington Post's massive scoops about the NSA's PRISM program, as well...
In 48 hours of leaks we went from the NSA collecting meta-data on practically every phone call in the United States to the revelation of an overarching Internet surveillance scheme called PRISM, which collects data wholesale from nine major US Internet content...
Suddenly members of the media (thanks to some heroic, anonymous leakers) are doing what we wish they did every day -- they're enthusiastically skewering the state, and reporting in outraged detail all that the government has done to violate the sacred rights of the...
FISA Court Chief Judge Reggie Walton objects to the characterization of his court as a "rubber stamp" that will approve literally anything. Even though they approved an order to spy on every goddamn phone call in the United States. President Obama objects to the media...
Just because the whole world seems to be talking about closing Guantanamo Bay prison -- not to mention the President of the United States -- doesn't mean it's going to happen any time soon. Not if congressional Republicans have anything to do with it. Distracted by...
Last night news broke that a FISA court granted the NSA an insanely broad warrant for literally every single call made by Verizon customers over a several month period.Tens of millions of phone calls. It gets worse. Apparently even though FISA judges are essentially...
