How do you get Eliot Spitzer’s attention? The New York Civil Liberties Union wants to know.
The organization claims to have made several requests to the AG’s office asking for an investigation into allegations that the telecom giants, AT&T and Verizon, have shared millions of New Yorkers’ telephone records with the National Security Read More
In the spirit of New York magazine’s we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation‘s publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon–in the wake of USA Today‘s exclusive NSA data-mining blockbuster–about his own magazine’s coverage of NSA data-mining.
Webb’s message cites the work of writer Tim Shorrock: Read More
The etiquette and morality of leaking is not always easy to understand, especially for citizens outside Washington. From the journalistic perspective, almost all leaks are inherently good. From the politician’s point of view—as the White House is now demonstrating—many leaks are excellent while others are very bad, and the crucial question is whether the revealed Read More
Other than a possible hiccup in the volume of telephone sex, did the revelation that the National Security Agency is bugging our phones pack much of a wallop? It did among civil libertarians and privacy fetishists, but it appears that perhaps 150 million citizens of the United States face the possibility of being tapped without Read More
New York Times editors published reporter James Risen’s December account of National Security Agency wiretapping without having seen the manuscript of Mr. Risen’s book on the same subject, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events.
Ever since the appearance of Mr. Risen’s Dec. 16 piece, co-written with Eric Lichtblau, rumor and speculation have Read More
New York Times editors published reporter James Risen’s December account of National Security Agency wiretapping without having seen the manuscript of Mr. Risen’s book on the same subject, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events.
Ever since the appearance of Mr. Risen’s Dec. 16 piece, co-written with Eric Lichtblau, rumor and speculation have Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
