Obama Should Have Given Americans a Choice President Obama defended the government's massive surveillance programs Friday, saying they "help us prevent terrorist attacks."
Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse' WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday that the US justice system was suffering from a "calamitous collapse in the rule of law", as Washington reeled from the sensational exposure of vast spy agency surveillance programmes.
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials President Barack Obama's administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaking of highly classified documents that revealed the secret surveillance of Americans' telephone and email traffic, U.S. officials said on Friday.
UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a secret U.S. intelligence program.
Swiss lawyers blast secretive US bank deal A secretive deal between Bern and Washington over Swiss banks' alleged complicity in tax evasion by Americans is "deeply worrying," according to the new head of the Swiss Bar Association.
Rethinking American Exceptionalism "American exceptionalism" is perhaps the most misunderstood phrase in politics. If, like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, we define "exceptionalism" as "the condition of being different from the norm"–then it's certainly true that America is exceptional. But we rarely stop to ask: Should we always want to be exceptional?