This weekend was supposed to be one big party in Croatia, as the country gears up to enter the European Union on July 1st. For many Croats, EU accession, four years after they made it into NATO, was slated to...
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The Legacy of “Black Actions”
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Snowden in the US-Russian SpyWar
The last two weeks have witnessed the unfolding of the strangest spy saga in the history of American intelligence. Edward Snowden, a young contractor with the National Security Agency, burst the bubble of secrecy surrounding that most secretive of American...
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Will the real Edward Snowden please stand up?
Is Edward Snowden really what he claims to be — a whistleblower out to expose government overreach? Or is he a pawn, witting or unwitting, of America’s adversaries? It’s been the longest couple weeks in the history of the National...
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Fistfight in Secrecy (or, Me & Glenn)
Today The Guardian released some “shocking” new classified NSA and DoJ documents relating to SIGINT collection and U.S. persons that were billed by lead reporter Glenn Greenwald as very damaging (as he always does). I took a peek and found...
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Snowden, Intelligence, and History
As the remarkable case of Edward Snowden has unfolded over the last week, since the former NSA contractor went public by naming himself as the source of The Guardian‘s scoops about US intelligence, I’ve had plenty to say. In addition...
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No Such Agency no more
After working safely away from the public eye for decades, the National Security Agency was thrust into the limelight, opening a controversy the likes of which America’s most secretive of secret services has never experienced. The NSA is the US signals intelligence...
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Troubled Tribunal fails again
As the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) winds down its two-decade mission of attempting to deliver justice for the Balkan wars of the 1990s, even its defenders are left wondering what it was for in the first...