- Cost-benefit analysis and state secrecy ("terrorism is such a minor threat to American life and limb that it's simply bizarre to suppose that it could even begin to justify the abolition of privacy rights [and] the installation of a panoptic surveillance state") http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/06/cost-benefit-analysis-and-state-secrecy 392 comments politics
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- The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-irrationality-of-giving-up-this-much-liberty-to-fight-terror/276695/ 121 comments
- NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar | WIRED http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/all/ 116 comments
- Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions | World news | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower?commentpage=1 5 comments
- Investigations: U.S. & World News Investigations | NBC News http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/15/18979057-us-intelligence-officials-dozens-of-terror-plots-disrupted-by-nsa-surveillance?lite= 4 comments
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