Here’s a great conversation at Slate.com about Shane Harris’ new book The Watchers.
We’ll be having the author here at Cato on March 10th for a similar discussion of his book and the growth of the surveillance state.
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Here’s a great conversation at Slate.com about Shane Harris’ new book The Watchers.
We’ll be having the author here at Cato on March 10th for a similar discussion of his book and the growth of the surveillance state.
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Government spying on press communications is not be “unprecedented”.
Tough questions for the FBI after seizing journalists’ phone records.

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