Category: National Security
Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post
by Jeff Larson | Sep 10, 2013 | Legal Affairs, National SecurityCiting concerns about linking to classified material, Johns Hopkins University asked a professor this morning to remove a blog post discussing last week’s revelations about the NSA’s efforts to break encryption. The post had linked to government documents published by ProPublica, the Guardian, and the New York Times. Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins, which is short drive from the […]
Whistleblowers and the National Security State
by Louis Clark | Aug 1, 2013 | National SecurityRevelations by National Security Agency (NSA) contract employee Edward Snowden have seized the attention of the world and sparked a national debate about government surveillance and privacy. Snowden’s disclosures pose two questions that strike at the heart of any democracy. What are the American people entitled to know about their government? And what is the […]
The Meaning of Dzhoktar Tsarnaev on the Cover of Rolling Stone
by Tom Gogola | Jul 18, 2013 | Media, National SecurityDespite the cries of protest and the outrage, and despite the widespread banning of the magazine, the image of Boston marathon bomber Dzhoktar Tsarnaev now depicted on the latest issue of Rolling Stone does not “glorify” the photogenic bomber. Rather, the power of the image of Tsarnaev—wearing a designer t-shirt and looking every bit like […]
The Mostly Untold Story of the NSA
by Samir Chopra | Jul 18, 2013 | National SecurityIn the 1970s and 1980s, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers, having realized that electronic communications required encryption for the sake of privacy, started working on developing tools for providing just that. Academic research is public. At its best, it is open for inspection, perusal, sharing, distribution and modification. That means if research on privacy-enhancing cryptography […]
New York City’s Spies Are Worse than the NSA’s
by Peter Lindstrom | Jun 19, 2013 | National SecurityIt’s not that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about the National Security Agency.But the fact is we’ve known that we must have more oversight of federal security operations. In fact, the first major call for oversight of federal intelligence programs was a report by the Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson in 1956. So oversight is long […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety