Category Government spying

Who will save America?

My epiphany, from Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, past Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. A number of readers have asked me when did…

NSA System error

The NSA has spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to kick-start a program, intended to help protect the United States against terrorism, that many experts say was doomed from the start. I’m a database programmer, and…

Weather forecast: tyranny foretold

Empire Burlesque on creeping fascism and the compliance of the ruling class in the Bush agenda. It won’t come with jackboots and book burnings, with mass rallies and fevered harangues. It won’t come with “black helicopters” or tanks on the…

Kudos to Google

Google is refusing a US government request to turn over records of searches made. Google has refused to comply with a US government subpoena for information about how people use its search engine, opening one of the first legal battles…