Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We Should Hope” the NSA Is “Reading Every Email”
Katie Couric asked Mike Bloomberg whether he had ever “sexted on Snapchat.” The question prompted him to describe his views on data collection and privacy.
National Security
Voices
Senate Acquittal Gave Trump a Blank Check. With Roger Stone’s Sentencing, the President's Crime Syndicate Is Cashing In.
Barr and Mike Pompeo are no longer men of moral standing — only the avaricious lieutenants of a cult leader.
Report: U.S. Military Rarely Visits Bomb Sites or Talks to Survivors When Investigating Civilian Deaths
Military personnel interviewed civilian witnesses in just 21.5 percent of investigations, "severely compromising" their effectiveness.
Voices
House Democrats Rushed Donald Trump's Impeachment, Handing Him an Election Year Gift
A key lesson of Watergate was that regicide takes time.
Targeting Iran
Trump’s Regime Change Policy for Iran Is a Fevered Fantasy — It Will Only Promote Chaos and Instability
After Qassim Suleimani’s assassination, we may already be at war with Iran. Yet the regime change policy won’t work out how Trump wants it to.
The U.S. Government Secretly Spied on Chinese American Scientists, Upending Lives and Paving the Way for Decades of Discrimination
The program’s effects reverberate today, at a moment when combating economic espionage and scientific theft from China are among the FBI’s top priorities.
SEAL Commander Who Clashed With Trump to Leave Early
Rear Adm. Collin Green had publicly told his force that the SEALs had a “problem” and that some members of the unit were “ethically misaligned.”
Targeting Iran
Congress Moves to Restrict Trump’s War Powers, Repeal 17-Year Iraq War Authorization
The House passed two measures aimed at restricting the president’s war powers, including a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Matt Gaetz.
To Unravel the Plot Against Marie Yovanovitch, the Senate Needs to Hear From Lev Parnas
The Senate will probably not subpoena Lev Parnas, but if he wants to make amends for hounding Marie Yovanovitch, he could start by answering these questions.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
At Guantánamo Bay, Torture Apologists Take Refuge in Empty Code Words and Euphemisms
“Don’t be fooled by ‘enhanced interrogation,’” torture architect James Mitchell told the court. “You are doing coercive physical techniques.”