I just saw Oliver Stone's Snowden. It's an excellent film, no doubt, and also an important rebuttal to ongoing efforts by propagandists to limit America's conversation to who Edward Snowden… Read the rest of the article: Oliver Stone's "Snowden" is great entertainment and an important argument for pardon

If you were the government and wanted to maintain a state of perpetual war, how would you go about it?

Author and former CIA officer Barry Eisler spoke at the Association of Former Intelligence Officers opposite ex-CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on Monday. In front of about a hundred… Read the rest of the article: How would you explain the difference between war and terrorism to a space alien?

Author and former CIA officer Barry Eisler spoke at the Association of Former Intelligence Officers opposite ex-CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on Monday. Below, an adaptation of his opening… Read the rest of the article: On whistleblowers and secrecy: What author Barry Eisler said to a room of ex-intelligence officers

The tech reporter is expected to be sentenced by a judge today in a highly controversial case brought by the Justice Department.

“Why is this so important? Because, as the saying goes, if the slaughterhouses of the world were made of glass, we'd all be vegetarians.”