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The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 1, 2013 Officials leak secrets compulsively to advance careers or justify wars and are far more threatening to national security than Edward Snowden. Officials leak secrets compulsively to advance careers or justify wars and are far more threatening to national security than Edward Snowden. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

NSA Holds Internet Records Longer Than Obama Said

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 1, 2013 The NSA stores the online metadata of millions of Internet users for up to a year, whether they are targets of investigations or not, The Guardian reports Monday that top secret documents reveal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Polish Dissidents Cry Out for Snowden

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 30, 2013 Four members of Poland's Solidarity movement, which toppled the country's totalitarian regime in the 1980s, recently issued an open letter calling for their government to grant NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden sanctuary from the United States. “The fact that only dictatorial governments agreed to give him shelter shames the democratic states,” they wrote. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

A World Where No One Listens to the Planet’s Sole Superpower

By Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch Sep 30, 2013 Ever fewer countries, allies, or enemies, are paying attention, much less kowtowing, to the once-formidable power of the world’s last superpower. The list of defiant figures -- from Egyptian generals to Saudi princes, Iraqi Shiite leaders to Israeli politicians -- is lengthening. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

NSA Agent Spied on Women for Years

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 30, 2013 Skeptical that government officials would use their privileges for perverse ends? The NSA's internal watchdog revealed an employee was able to secretly intercept the phone calls of nine foreign women for six years without being detected by his managers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Shortcuts Seen at Background Check Firms

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 29, 2013 Evidence suggests the outsourcing of security checks of the kind that cleared NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden and accused Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis are leading private contractors to cut corners and falsify reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NSA Creates Social Profiles of U.S. Citizens

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 28, 2013 The agency that brought you warrantless mass spying exploits its huge database to create detailed graphs of Americans' social connections, identifying their associates, locations, traveling companions and other personal information, newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials reveal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Countdown to Shutdown, Ted Cruz and Friendly Iran

Staff / Truthdig Sep 28, 2013 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss the Senate's bill to restore funding for Obama's health care law and avert a government shutdown, what will happen when Obamacare goes into effect and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's "sort-of filibuster." Also, the cooling of tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NSA Spied on Vietnam War Critics

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 28, 2013 The National Security Agency tapped the phones of prominent Vietnam War opponents in the late 1960s and ’70s, including Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King. Jr., newly declassified files reveal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bragging Rights

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Sep 27, 2013 Let’s be Americans, which means being exceptional, which also means being honest in ways inconceivable to the rest of humanity. So here’s the truth of it: the American exceptionalism sweepstakes really do matter. Here. A lot. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Obama’s Most Important Diplomacy

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 26, 2013 President Obama's foreign policy now seems to be defined by a series of ironies. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. Stops Daily Updates on Gitmo Strike

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2013 The number of inmates on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has dropped from a hundred to 19 since July. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )