Terrorism/Security
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Friday Mid-Day Reader: Iran, Etc.
The substance and the politics of several ensnarled issues.
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Iran Sanctions Update: Have Senators Actually Read This Bill?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "We cannot let Israel determine when and where the United States goes to war."
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Reuters The Iran Vote: This Really Matters, and You Should Let Your Senators Know
If the nuclear deal is going to fail, let that happen at the negotiating table—and not be engineered under the Capitol dome.
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Crowdsourcing the Yasukuni Question: From Tokyo to Philadelphia
One American president, two possible analogies.
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Chessmaster or Pawn: Now, It's China's Turn
Is the Chinese government falling into traps? Or setting them for others?
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Readers on Syria: Stay Out
A different red line President Obama could draw.
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Reuters Here's a Wild Idea About Syria: Make the Case to Congress
It would be better for America if Congress had to consider the arguments for military action. It would be better for Obama too.
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Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think
The real threat from terrorism is not the harm it inflicts directly but the over-reaction it provokes. We saw that with the invasion of Iraq. We're seeing it with security-state overreach.
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A Man Who Resisted the Security State
"The tech visionaries who predicted that the internet would be revolutionary were correct, but not in the way that they expected."
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Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
I'm glad we have this information; I am sorry we are getting it from Hong Kong.
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'I Cannot Figure Out Why This Was Classified to Begin With'
What the PRISM leaks have in common with the Pentagon Papers
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Annals of the Security State: Hypotheses
Why not call it 'spatial profiling'?
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Annals of the Security State: Turboprop Edition
"At this point I was shaking in my boots. I was absolutely concerned they were going to plant something in my aircraft."
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Finale on the NYT Mag Airplane-in-Peril Story
The writer was telling us "what he heard and felt." Not necessarily what occurred.
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Annals of the Security State: 'Is Puerto Rico in America?'
Stop-and-frisk, in the skies
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Summarizing the Latest Security-State Post
The TL;DR version of stop-and-frisk taking to the skies
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Annals of the Security State: The Airplane Stories Continue
"I figured at this point that I was being hijacked by drug dealers who were going to steal my plane." But no, it was the Feds.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters For Memorial Day, Another 'End the War on Terror' Speech
A message I have been waiting to hear.
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Annals of the Security State: More Airplane Stories
"My dad fought a war so this can never happen in America. I will not dishonor my father's memory by giving up what he fought for. No, sir. With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant."
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Annals of the Security State, Gabriel Silverstein Division
We all notice the parts of security-overreach that affect us.
