Policy
Want to Be the Next Intelligence Whistleblower? You May Want to Wait
Even the director of national intelligence admits there are inadequate safeguards for officials who want to bring attention to wrongdoing. By Conor Friedersdorf
Policy
How to Find Yourself on the Terror Watch List
The Obama administration's newly revealed guidelines for tracking individuals are a Kafkaesque mess built on hubris. By Conor Friedersdorf
Policy
Gen. Abizaid-Led Panel Sounds Alarm on U.S. Drones
It's time Obama rethinks drones when a group like this criticizes the precedents and dangers of targeted killings. By Conor Friedersdorf
Ideas
Obama's Drone Killing Memo: Too Little, Too Late
Help me figure out why this memo justifying killing American Anwar al-Awlaki was kept secret. By Conor Friedersdorf
Policy
The Decline of the American War Hawk
There's been a backlash in the United States against foreign interventionism. By Conor Friedersdorf
Business
A Free Society Cannot Escape All Terrorism
An NSA official illustrates the totalitarian temptation in bureaucracies charged with stopping 100 percent of attacks. By Conor Friedersdorf
Threats
What If a Drone Struck an American Wedding?
Can you imagine the wall-to-wall press coverage and outrage if a foreign power struck an American wedding like we just did in Yemen? By Conor Friedersdorf
Business
Stop Shrouding the U.S. Drone Program in Secrecy
What if Obama was forced by Congress to share, after every lethal drone strike, a detailed summary of the evidence against the people killed? By Conor Friedersdorf
Policy
The NSA Needs a Church Committee
It's time for a new Church Committee, the mid-1970s surveillance oversight investigation named for Sen. Frank Church, and this time it should be led by Sen. Ron Wyden. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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