So what the hell happened with the FISA Amendments Act over the holidays? I made a short video for Cato explaining it.
Entries from January 2013
FISA: The Movie
January 3rd, 2013 · 7 Comments
Tags: Privacy and Surveillance
The Wall Street Journal’s Misleading Celebration of NSA Spying
January 2nd, 2013 · 10 Comments
The FISA Amendments Act has been extended, without amendment, for another five years—and The Wall Street Journal is delighted: Well, not everything President Obama and the 112th Congress managed to achieve is so terrible. With scarcely any notice, much less controversy, they did at least preserve one of the country’s most important post-9/11 antiterror tools. […]
Tags: Journalism & the Media · Privacy and Surveillance
Your Television, I Am On It
January 2nd, 2013 · 79 Comments
As a general rule, going on television reminds me why I’ve chosen a career in print, but between the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act and the David Petraeus scandal, I’ve nevertheless ended up making a handful of small-screen appearances in the past couple months. For those of you who are into that sort of […]
Tags: Privacy and Surveillance · Self Promotion
Highlights from Last Week’s Surveillance Debate
January 2nd, 2013 · 6 Comments
I’ve just had a chance to play around with C-SPAN’s clip-and-share functionality from its video archives, which seems like a pretty great tool for wonks like me who actually pay attention to stuff like last week’s marathon Senate debate over the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act, which President Obama signed on Sunday evening. With […]
