Here is a condensed version of President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, unofficially translated into plain English

The surveillance state is not the default setting of digital technology. The surveillance state is a failure and suppressor of democracy

Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its small ground-floor London embassy, the founder of WikiLeaks is still there

Sanders should make clear how he currently differs — or agrees — with Clinton on key aspects of war policies, foreign affairs and the military-industrial complex

Sterling was one of the CIA’s few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency

Congress had just created “sweeping new authorities for the government to conduct unconstitutional mass surveillance of Americans.”

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Assessing the Case of Jeffrey Sterling

It’s a warning shot—not only against whistleblowing, but against basic communication with journalists by government employees

An emerging big irony of United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is that the government has harmed itself in the process of gunning for the defendant