America's Surveillance State: Anger Swells After Data Revelations -- The Guardian
Senior politicians reveal that US counter-terrorism efforts have swept up personal data from American citizens for years
The scale of America's surveillance state was laid bare on Wednesday as senior politicians revealed that the US counter-terrorism effort had swept up swaths of personal data from the phone calls of millions of citizens for years.
After the revelation by the Guardian of a sweeping secret court order that authorised the FBI to seize all call records from a subsidiary of Verizon, the Obama administration sought to defuse mounting anger over what critics described as the broadest surveillance ruling ever issued.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know -- Bruce Schneier, The Atlantic
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Why US must give military aid to Syria's rebels -- Kurt Shillinger, Christian Science Monitor
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Hamas-Hezbollah Ties Deteriorate Over Syria -- Asmaa al-Ghoul, Al-Monitor
Solution to Syria war increasingly seems dependent on decisions of West, Arab states -- Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz
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Egypt’s Self-Defeating Scapegoating -- Max Boot, Commentary
China is not the world’s other superpower -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Aung San Suu Kyi for president in 2015? -- Joseph J. Schatz, Christian Science Monitor
Asia's New Triangle -- Harsh Pant, Real Clear World
Obama's Putin Problem -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Pay attention because Argentina is falling apart -- Silvio Canto, Jr., American Thinker
With Lautenberg Gone, WW II Vets Fade From Politics -- Michael Barone, Real Clear Politics
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary