Dan Froomkin
Dan Froomkin is the former Washington Editor of The Intercept.
An outspoken proponent of accountability journalism, he wrote the popular “White House Watch” column at the Washington Post from 2004 to 2009. His career in journalism started in local news, and since then he has served as the senior Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the Huffington Post, as editor of WashingtonPost.com, and as deputy editor of NiemanWatchdog.org. He lives in Washington, D.C.
An outspoken proponent of accountability journalism, he wrote the popular “White House Watch” column at the Washington Post from 2004 to 2009. His career in journalism started in local news, and since then he has served as the senior Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the Huffington Post, as editor of WashingtonPost.com, and as deputy editor of NiemanWatchdog.org. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Top Journalists and Lawyers: NSA Surveillance Threatens Press Freedom and Right to Counsel
Is Revealing Secrets Akin to Drunk Driving? Intelligence Official Says So
The intelligence community's top lawyer on Friday defended the Obama administration's hostility toward revelations of national security secrets -- and likened the act of publishing them to drunk driving.<!--more-->
Reports of the Death of a National License-Plate Tracking Database Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
In a February 19 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/homeland-security-is-seeking-a-national-license-plate-tracking-system/2014/02/18/56474ae8-9816-11e3-9616-d367fa6ea99b_story.html">front-page story</a>, the <em>Washington Post</em> appeared to be breaking news of yet another massive federal surveillance program invading the privacy of innocent Americans. <!--more-->
Calls for Brennan's Ouster Emerge Along With Details of CIA Search of Senate Computers
CIA Director John Brennan's decision to search Senate committee computers was such a blatant violation of the Constitutional separation of powers that some pro-accountability groups in Washington are starting to seek his ouster. <!--more-->
CIA Search of Congressional Computer Sparks Constitutional Crisis
Two top Senate leaders declared Tuesday that the CIA's recent conduct has undermined the separation of powers as set out in the Constitution, setting the stage for a major battle to reassert the proper balance between the two branches. <!--more-->
The Inverse of Oversight: CIA Spies On Congress
In the wake of an explosive new allegation that the CIA spied on Senate intelligence committee staffers, one senator felt this morning that he needed to make something clear. "The Senate Intelligence Committee oversees the CIA, not the other way around," Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) said in a press release. <!--more-->
Judge Tosses Muslim Spying Suit Against NYPD, Says Any Damage Was Caused by Reporters Who Exposed It
A federal judge in Newark has thrown out a lawsuit against the New York Police Department for spying on New Jersey Muslims, saying if anyone was at fault, it was the Associated Press for telling people about it. <!--more-->
The Terrible Toll of Secrecy
The Intercept's inaugural exposé, by my colleagues Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, illuminates the deeply flawed interaction between omnipresent electronic surveillance and targeted drone killings –- two of the three new, highly disruptive instruments of national power that President Obama has pursued with unanticipated enthusiasm. <!--more-->