Signals and Noise
People like to say that the world changed on 9/11. That it became a more confusing place. But for two men, as buildings and bodies burned, the world became much clearer.On the morning of September 11,...
View ArticleNSA and TIA
With all the recent attention on the National Security Agency’s surveillance program–particularly that it was the so-called “data mining” aspects that drew Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to John...
View ArticleTotal Information Awareness and the National Security Agency
In light of recent reporting, I want to recall two previous stories on the revival of the Total Information Awareness Program and its connection to the NSA’s surveillance efforts. You can view all my...
View ArticleHacking the Bad Guys
The United States is fighting a new kind of war, but the first shots were fired a generation ago. Check out my feature story in Washingtonian about the rise of cyber security in the U.S. government,...
View ArticleSlate Book Club: Debating The Watchers
This week, I’ll have an online discussion at Slate with my friend and fellow intelligence author, Patrick Radden Keefe. We’ll be talking about The Watchers, my relationship with John Poindexter, the...
View ArticleThe Watchers in the New York Times
The New York Times review is in today’s paper. Eric Lichtblau, no stranger to the opaque world of surveillance, gave it strong praise: “it uses smart technical analysis and crisp writing to put the...
View ArticleC-SPAN Book TV
C-SPAN has been re-airing my book talk from the International Spy Museum in Washington. This was on February 18, publication day for The Watchers.
View ArticleWhy Data Mining Wouldn’t Have Stopped Alleged Aurora Shooter James Holmes
Could “total information awareness” have prevented the killings in Colorado? No. Here’s why.
View ArticleGiving in to the Surveillance State
My op-ed in today’s New York Times looks at a decade of secret government surveillance and why we’re still powerless against it.
View ArticleTotal Recall
If the NSA’s massive intelligence operation sounds like a certain Bush-era program, that’s because it is. Continue reading…
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