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No Place To Hide May. 29, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

With heart-pounding suspense, John le Carre-like intrigue and Jeffersonian fidelity to the principle... Read More

Prying Provokes Privacy Protection May. 14, 2014

Jacob Sullum

A year before most of us knew that the National Security Agency was routinely collecting our phone r... Read More

A Government Admission of Wrongdoing Apr. 10, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyde... Read More

What if Secrecy Trumps the Constitution? Apr. 03, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all A... Read More

NSA Surveillance and the Dangers of Power Mar. 30, 2014

Steve Chapman

Every so often, we get proof that Barack Obama, when confronted with a grievous abuse of government ... Read More

Probable Cause Mar. 27, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing t... Read More

A Rivalry of Government Hackers Mar. 13, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking ... Read More

A New Assault on Freedom of the Press Feb. 13, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Last week, a little noticed clash took place on Capitol Hill involving the fundamental values underl... Read More

Presidential Placebo Jan. 23, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profou... Read More

Obama's Privacy Epiphany Jan. 22, 2014

Jacob Sullum

Last June, after news reports revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) was surreptitiously c... Read More

Mass Surveillance Proves Pointless Jan. 19, 2014

Steve Chapman

In times of war and national emergency, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice civil liberties to sec... Read More

Fear and Freedom Jan. 18, 2014

Susan Estrich

The day after 9/11, I called one of my friends and said we should write a "quickie" book o... Read More

Spying on Congress Jan. 09, 2014

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Happy New Year. Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn't get any worse, it has. Last w... Read More

Almost Orwellian Dec. 19, 2013

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

"Almost Orwellian" — that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week t... Read More

Excusing Abuses of Power Dec. 19, 2013

Steve Chapman

If you're part of the U.S. national security apparatus and you torture someone to death during an in... Read More

Are You Consenting to Surveillance Right Now? Dec. 18, 2013

Jacob Sullum

After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls fro... Read More

The Judge and the NSA Dec. 18, 2013

Susan Estrich

I suspect the NSA may have thought they got lucky when one of the first post-Edward Snowden cases to... Read More

Monitoring You While You're Mobile May. 11, 2011

Daily Editorials

Nearly three decades after the Police first sang of watching "every move you make," modern... Read More