Over the year since the case of the NSA traitor-turned-defector Edward Snowden broke into the public eye – and what a year it’s been for your humble blogger here – I’ve written up a lot on this remarkable affair. On...
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The XX Committee Snowden Reader
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When did Snowden go over to the Russians?
In three weeks, Edward Snowden will celebrate having lived one year in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Everybody familiar with espionage, particularly when it involves Russians, understands that Ed lives under the watchful eye care of Russian intelligence, as he has from...
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The Snowden Operation Falls Apart
Edward Snowden had his Big Interview on NBC this week, and it was something of a pace-setter for poor TV journalism, since Brian Williams (who was previously denounced by Glenn Greenwald for being a servile boot-licker of the surveillance state),...
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KGB General: Of Course Snowden is Working for Russian Intelligence
As the Snowden Operation devolves into farce, with the inevitable falling-out between Wikileaks and the Greenwald axis happening online for the world to see, it seems that Edward Snowden isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. What contact, if any, he had...
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Schindler v. Greenwald … almost
For nearly a year now, since the Edward Snowden story broke and became a global sensation, I’ve repeatedly invited Glenn Greenwald to debate me about NSA and related matters. He has consistently refused; readers may draw their own conclusions as...
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Ideology is making America stupid
That there is something wrong with the United States – its politics, its economy, its culture, its interactions with the rest of the world – seems to be widely acknowledged by most Americans today. Poll after poll indicates a profound...
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Norway Warns of Increased Russian Economic Espionage
Russian espionage against NATO members is rising as the crisis in Ukraine drags from weeks into months. Some of this intelligence-gathering is aimed at political and military information, as in the case of Hungary, which I recently detailed. However, economic...
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Russia’s Soft Power and the “Great Patriotic War”
As Ukraine burns under quasi-covert attacks from Russia, with the Kremlin now demanding that Kyiv cease its efforts to reestablish sovereignty in its own country – that constitutes “aggression” according to Moscow, and represents a danger to world peace itself...
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Ground Truth About Benghazi
The terrorist attack on U.S. Consulate Benghazi on September 11, 2012, which took the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans, is back on front pages again. It’s never been out of the news entirely – and...
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Rising Russian Intelligence Activity in Hungary
Hungary is an important state in the Ukraine crisis, albeit one whose role is little understood outside Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest shares a (small) border with Ukraine, while Kyiv has an (also small) Hungarian minority in the far west...