Democrats in Congress are proposing legislation to limit the authority of customs agents to search and duplicate Americans’ laptops, PDAs, and other electronic devices at border crossings.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Post-9/11 Antiterrorism Measures Should Be More Targeted, Says New Book
After the 9/11 attacks, there were two main schools of thought about how to prevent the next terrorist incident.
Spy Agencies Turn to Newspapers, NPR, and Wikipedia for Information
A few days ago, a senior officer at the Pentagon called his intelligence officer into his office. The boss had heard a news report about China while driving to his office and wanted some answers. It wasn’t a tough assignment, given the news coverage, but there was a hitch. “There was plenty of information...
‘That’s Classified’: Shining a Light on Washington’s Growing Reliance on Secrecy
The debate over government secrecy can be reduced to a simple formula: the public’s right to know versus the government’s desire to protect the public. More often, it’s far less grandiose and far more nuanced. One of the oldest secrets that the government keeps is a recipe for invisible ink from the First World...
Making Peace With the Process
It’s a shame more high school students don’t read Reinhold Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama. Assigned reading for many a college freshman, Niebuhr’s most oft-quoted insight is perfect advice for applicants, too: “Give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage...