This week’s reauthorization of the Patriot Act comes on the heels of the revelation Obama’s Office of Legal Counsel granted fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking.
Julian Sanchez
Julian Sanchez is a writer based in Washington, D.C., and a research fellow at the Cato Institute.
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Real Reform for the PATRIOT Act?
The Senate is reviewing Bush-era surveillance powers set to expire at the end of the year. This could be the moment to revise the whole architecture of post-9/11 spying law.
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Democrats Capitulate on FISA
Democrats are trying to rationalize capitulating on surveillance and telecom immunity in the new FISA bill by calling it a compromise. It isn’t.
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The Revolt of the Comic Books
America’s superheroes take on preemptive war, torture, warrantless spying, and George W. himself.
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My Summer Reading Journal
August 4: For my summer vacation, I decided to read The Stranger by Albert Camus (in American). I decided this for a couple reasons. For one, there was this other book Terror and Liberalism I was listening to while I was jogging a while back, where it says Sayyid Qutb and that Zawahiri fella are […]