The Next Chapter

Three Austin-based national-security experts offer their views on how America can rebuild its reputation in Iraq and beyond

"...workers, aid workers, U.N. officials, State Department and U.S. [Agency for International Development] workers."..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Greenwald on Politics, Privacy, Journalism

Reporter/editor says bigger Snowden revelations to come

"...Ed Snowden’s go-to journalist to publish his cache of National Security Agency documents – Skyped to SXSW Interactive this..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Live Free or Die Hard

As John McClane, Bruce Willis once more brings the noise and blows the bejesus out of the bad guys.

"...Willis' hero cop didn't need a Department of Homeland Security to save his bullet-etched backside. And now, nearly 20..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fun and Games With Stratfor

APD and DPS collaborated with private 'geopolitical intelligence firm'

"...President Dwight Eisenhower), the intelligence industrial complex is a national and international web of numerous partnerships between government and..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by John Anderson

Letters at 3AM

Silence is not an option, if our Constitution is ever again to rise from the paper on which it was written

"...month the world learned that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap the calls and e-mails of..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Hanging Up on AT&T

My boss is suing the phone company – bully for him

"...thanks to those stalwart friends of liberty at the National Security Agency and AT&T Inc., the legendary 94-year-old Chicago..."

June 2, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...of UT/Lockheed Martin Corp. to run the Los Alamos National Nuclear Lab. The lab has been plagued with security,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature

Official Secrets

True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War

"...in the informative Official Secrets, when a United States National Security Agency memo requests the GCHQ’s assistance in gathering..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Hightower Report

NSA and DHS defend us from LibertyManiacs.com

"...That's why we must be grateful to the National Security Agency and our Department of Homeland Security. They're..."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Push

This sci-fi actioner about warring clairvoyants is generically incomprehensible with cyberpunk overtones.

"...these days, who isn't? – name that rogue federal agency.) Push, a generically incomprehensible paranoid action disaster with cyberpunk..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snowden Defends Fourth Amendment

'Would I do it again? The answer is yes.'

"...Snowden's leaks, major companies have had to improve their security systems, and both companies and officials have begun to..."

March 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: The Patriot Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is the American equivalent of the man who stood in front of that tank in Tiananmen Square

"...The Booz Allen Hamilton gang: Mike McConnell was the National Security Agency director from 1992 to 1996, after which..."

June 28, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Hightower Report: Repeal the Patriot Act

Unlimited power invites abuse

"...and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely-powerful National Security Agency to run a daily dragnet through your..."

July 26, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Report

Recounting of U.S. torture program investigation is dry as Senate testimony

"...by numerous actors as relevant politicos (Jon Hamm as National Security Agency Chief Denis McDonough, Ted Levine as CIA..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

All hail King George; and the congressional king quid pro quo

"...that he has a perfect right to unleash his national security agency on a secret mission to spy on..."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM: Just Since April

Secret surveillance efforts fly in the face of our Constitution

"...your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly,..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...for handing over its clients' phone records to the National Security Agency for the warrantless tracking of the calls..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature

SXSW Panel: You Are Not Anonymous: The Myth of Online Privacy

The moving hand clicks, and its activity is tracked and sold everywhere

"...that makes its money selling (you guessed it) internet security and privacy. And the reason most VPNs are not..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2

Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws

"...Item 4: "Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone..."

May 3, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Making the Case for Paul

"...civilians. He’s the only candidate who opposes the heinous National Defense Authorization Act and its dangerous abridgment of the..."

Dec. 31, 2011 Postmarks

Point Austin: The Perps Walk

FISA, Congress, and the rule of law

"...Harrington, the ACLU, and others) against AT&T and the National Security Agency in their apparent cooperation to "data-mine" millions..."

July 18, 2008 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

The Rise of the Imperial Presidency; and What Color is Your Steak?

"...freedoms. For example, George has illegally been using the national security agency to spy secretly on American citizens who..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...said Border Media CEO Tom Castro, who was the national deputy finance chairman of John Kerry's presidential campaign. He..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

SXSW Taps ConsenSys Founder Joseph Lubin for 2019 Keynote

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency track programming comes into focus

"...the American Civil Liberties Union’s mission into the daily national conversation. With millions of new members, exponential growth in..."

Oct. 9, 2018 SXSW Post by Bonny Chu

Point Austin: Firefighters in Action

Snowden and allies on the tech side of human rights and personal privacy

"...(live-streamed, via "seven proxies," from Russia) is the private security-contractor whistle-blower who exposed the enormous range of the National..."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Michael King

U.S. Government Gone Rogue

"...no reliable independent oversight of the CIA or the National Security Agency. The telephone switching systems are run by..."

July 12, 2011 Postmarks

The Future’s So Dark I Gotta Wear Mirror-Shades

On cyberpunk

"...less an easy, buzz-worthy metaphor for a viciously Homeland Security-monitored, TALON'd-and-terrifying futuristic nightmare than a convenient tech-lit label rendered..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...of both parties who object to his authorization of National Security Agency wiretaps without the legally required judicial warrants...."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...intelligence vet-turned-MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance was assigned to the National Security Agency, his supervisor was fellow U.S. Navy vet..."

April 14, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

SXSW Interactive Adds Speakers

A chef, a cybernetic man, and a political firebrand walk into a bar

"...skills in those fields to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Security Agency, and NASA. She'll bring her hot data..."

Sept. 8, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch

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