Tag Archives: Jane Mayer

The case of Thomas Drake

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Matt

There’s an excellent piece by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker about Thomas Drake, the linguist and computer expert-turned-whistleblower from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), who was indicted by the Obama administration in April 2010 for releasing classified information … Continue reading →

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Feasting in the torture gardens

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Matt

In the torture gardens Posted on April 2, 2011 by Matt In a fine piece for TomDispatch, Karen Greenberg, director of  the Center for Law and Security at NYU analyses a recurring theme in post-9/11 rightwing discourse in the United States – the … Continue reading →

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