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(I have included the dated references to illustrate that this is nothing new, nor necessarily partisan. It’s up to the student in using older source material to incorporate it thoughtfully and not assume that nothing has changed in a decade or more. Since this server doesn’t allow checking for broken links, you may have to be resourceful in tracking down a source).
Big Brother:
- Maggie Haberman, Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swain. 2025. Trump suggests no laws are broken if he’s ‘saving the country.’ February 15, New York Times. (pdf)
- Jonah Bromwich. 2026. ICE agents menaced Minnesota protesters at their homes, filings say. February 13, New York Times.
- David Sanger. 2025. Power, money, territory: How Trump shook the world in 50 days. March 11, New York Times. (pdf)
- Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac. 2026. Homeland Security wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts. February 13, New York Times.
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz. 2025. Inside Trump’s crackdown on dissent: Obscure laws, ICE agents, and fear. March 12, New York Times (pdf).
- Byron Tau and Garance Burke. 2025. Border patrol is monitoring drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ driving patterns. November 20, Associated Press.
- Lisa Song and Sharon Lerner. 2026. Trump administration orders USDA employees to investigate foreign researchers they work with. January 16, ProPublica.
- Marianne LeVine, Emmanuel Martinez, Alvaro Valito. 2025. ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows. December 28, Washington Post.
- Agnel Philip, Ken Schwencke, Hannah Fresques and Tyson Evans. 2025. How ProPublica uses AI responsibly in its investigations. March 13, ProPublica.org.
- Tim Golden. 2026. Trump Administration moves to allow intelligence agencies easier access to law enforcement files. February 25, ProPublica.
- Akela Lacy. 2025. If protesting Tesla is domestic terrorism, then what demonstration against Musk isn’t? March 13, The Intercept.
- Raphael Satter and A.C. Vicens. 2025. The Charlie Kirk Purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown. November 19, Reuters.
- Derek Hawkins. 2025. Judges say unsolicited pizza deliveries are meant to intimidate them. April 11, Washington Post. (pdf)
- Perry Stein. 2025. Judge says Trump penalties on law firm ‘send chills down my spine.’ March 12, Washington Post.
- Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, Azi Paybarah and Lateshia Beachum. 2025. FBI searches home and office of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. August 22, Washington Post.
- Hafiz Rachid. 2025. Now we know why Elon Musk’s DOGE seized that independent non-profit. April 1, The New Republic. (pdf)
- Devlin Barrett. 2025. Orders to investigate Columbia protesters raised alarms in Justice Dept. May 1, New York Times. (pdf)
- Moriah Balingit. 2025. The US government has a new policy for terminating international students’ legal status. April 29, Associated Press.
- Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer. 2025. Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras. March 19, Washington Post. (pdf)
- Agnel Phillip and Lisa Song. 2025. A study of mint plants. A device to stop bleeding. This is the scientific research Ted Cruz calls ‘woke.’ February 28, ProPublica.org.
- Ronan Farrow. 2024. The technology the Trump Administration could use to hack your phone. Nov 20, New Yorker Magazine.
- Shawn Musgrave. 2025. The feds want to unmask Instagram accounts that identified ICE agents. September 18, The Intercept.
- Camilo Montoya-Galvez. 2025. US to resume ‘neighborhood checks’ for citizenship applications as part of Trump push to heavily vet immigrants. August 25, CBS News.
- Jason Wilson. 2025. How a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists. February 9, The Guardian.
- Jose Olivares. 2025. US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants. June 4, The Guardian.
- Josh Gerstein. 2025. DOGE can access sensitive Social Security records, Supreme Court rules. June 6, Politico.
- Steven Zeitchik. 2022. A former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us–and he has a way to stop them. Jan 27, Washington Post.
- Claire Garvey. 2019. You’re in a police lineup, right now. Oct 15, New York Times.
- Peter Charalambous, Benja min Siegel, Alexander Mallin, and Katherine Faulders. 2025. Here’s a list of the individuals, including Lisa Cook, targeted so far by the Trump Administration.
- James Risen. 2020. Under cover of COVID-19, Donald Trump ramps up his war on truth-tellers. April 9, The Intercept.
- Kashmir Hill. 2020. The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it. Jan 18, New York Times.
- Michael Bisecker, Jake Person and Garance Burke. 2018. Detained immigrant children describe being beaten, locked up in solitary confinement, and left nude and shivering in concrete cells. June 21, Associated Press. Accessed online Nov 16, 2019.
- Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Natasha Singer, Michael Keller and Aaron Krolnik. 2018. Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret. Dec 10, New York Times.
- Carol Rosenburg. 2019. What the CIA’s torture program looked like to the tortured. Dec 4, New York Times.
- Coral Davenport. 2016. Climate change conversations are targeted in questionnaire to Energy Department. Dec 9, NY Times.
- Sheri Fink and James Risen. 2017. Psychologists open a window on brutal CIA interrogations. June 21, NY Times.
- Gabriel Dance, Michael LaForgia, Nicholas Confessore. 2018. As Facebook raised a privacy wall, it carved an opening for tech giants. Dec 18, NY Times.
- Justine Wise. 2018. DOJ officials mulled sidestepping confidentiality of Census answers: Report. Nov 19, TheHill.com.
- Eve Mitchell. 2016. Rethinking Sanctuary Cities in an age of ‘targeted’ deportation. Mar 12, Truthout.org.
- Grace Segers. 2019. Flight attendant and DACA recipient detained by ICE for over a month. Mar 22, CBS News.
- Julia Ainsley. 2018. Trump Administration paying undercover informants in migrant caravan. Nov 21, NBC News. Accessed: https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/53500-trump-administration-paying-undercover-informants-in-migrant-caravan.
- Masha Gessen. 2018. Donald Trump’s very Soviet fixation on applause. Feb 6, New Yorker Magazine.
- Sui-Lee Wee. 2019. China uses DNA to track its people, with the help of American expertise. Feb 21, NY Times.
- Farhad Manjoo. 2019. It’s time to panic about privacy. Apr 11, NY Times.
- Isaac Stanley-Becker, Brian Fung and Tony Romm. 2018. Trump Administration Taking a Look at Whether Google Searches Should Be Regulated, Kudlow Says. Aug 28, Washington Post. Accessed at: https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/51982-trump-administration-taking-a-look-at-whether-google-searches-should-be-regulated-kudlow-says.
- PBS Newshour. 2017. On the ground with ICE agents enforcing Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dec 12, PBS.org.
- Stephen Dinan. 2017. Donald Trump backs permanent snooping powers he once criticized as abusive. June 7, Washington Times.
- George Joseph and Kenneth Lipp. 2017. How ICE is using big data to carry out Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade. Aug 11, splinternews.com.
- Kaveh Waddell. 2017. Why is Obama expanding surveillance powers right before he leaves office? Jan 13, The Atlantic.
- Nick Pinto. 2018. As ICE targets immigrants for deportation, suspicious vehicles outside churches stoke surveillance fears. Jan 19, The Intercept.
- Russell Brandom. 2017. Feds are using Stingray cell-trackers to find undocumented immigrants. May 19, The Verge.
- Alex Emmons and Ryan Grim. 2018. Top republican warns that under new spending bill “the intelligence community could expend funds as it sees fit.” Jan 22, The Intercept.
- Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Molktke, Laura Poitras and James Risen. 2015. AT&T helped US spy on internet on a vast scale. Aug 15, NY Times.
- William Boardman. 2016. Obama is pathetic on human rights in North Dakota. Nov 4, Reader Supported News.
- James Risen. 2015. American Psychological Association bolstered CIA torture program, report says. Apr 30, NY Times.
- Ed Pilkington. 2015. Alone in Alabama: Dispatches from an inmate jailed for her son’s stillbirth. Oct 7, The Guardian.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2015. US first shields its torturers and war criminals from prosecution, now officially honors them. Dec 4, The Intercept.
- Reuters News Service. 2015. Exclusive: Detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse, torture beyond Senate findings. June 2, NY Times.
- Matt Taibbi. 2014. Ten craziest things in the Senate report on torture. Dec 11, Rolling Stone. Online at Reader Supported News.
- Jeremy Ashkenas, Hannah Fairfield, Josh Keller and Paul Volpe. 2014. 7 key points from the C.I.A. Torture Report. Dec 9, NY Times.
- US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. 2014. Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program. Dec 3, US Senate. (specify the excerpts read).
- Glenn Greenwald. 2015. With power of social media growing, police now monitoring and criminalizing online speech. Jan 6, The Intercept.
- Noam Chomsky. 2015. Magna Carta messed up the world, here’s how to fix it. May 29, Reader Supported News.
- Dan Froomkin. 2014. For CIA, truth about torture was an existential threat. Dec 10, The Intercept.
- Ken Silverstein. 2014. ‘A lot of these gomers didn’t know shit: Former CIA officer on torture report. Dec 10, The Intercept.
- Michael Daly. 2014. The palaces that torture built. Dec 14, The Daily Beast.
- Ryan Gallagher. 2014. Operation Auroragold: How the NSA hacks cellphone networks worldwide. Dec 4, The Intercept.
- James Glanz, Jeff Larson and Andrew Lehren. 2014. Spy agencies tap data streaming from phone apps. Jan 27, NY Times.
- Marisa Taylor and Jonathan Landay. 2013. Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of US. June 20, McClatchy Washington Bureau.
- Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. 2014. Turning a Wedding Into a Funeral: U.S. Drone Strike in Yemen Killed as Many as 12 Civilians. Feb 21, Democracy Now!
- Christian Davenport. 2014. Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within. Mar 7, Washington Post.
- James Bamford. 2012. The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center (watch what you say). March 15, Wired.
- Gleen Greenwald and Ewan MacAskill. 2013. Boundless Informant: The NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data. June 8, The Guardian.
- Conor Friedersdorf. 2013. The surveillance speech: A low point in Barack Obama’s presidency. Aug 12, The Atlantic.
- Thalif Deen. 2014. US faulted for undermining torture convention. Dec 14, Inter Press Service. Accessed at truth-out.org.
- Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher. 2014. Snowden documents reveal covert surveillance and pressure tactics aimed at WikiLeaks and their supporters. Feb 18, The Intercept.
- Julia Angwin. 2012. US Terrorism agency to tap a vast database of citizens. Dec 13, Wall Street Journal (online).
- Barton Gelman. 2013. U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata. June 15, Washington Post.
- Barton Gelman and Ashkan Soltani. 2013. NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show. Dec 4, Washington Post.
- Craig Timberg. 2013. The NSA slide you haven’t seen. June 10, Washington Post.
- Alfred McCoy. 2013. Surveillance blowback: The making of the US surveillance state, 1898-2020. July 14, TomDispatch.com.
- Ewan MacAskill, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald. 2013. The National Security Agency: Surveillance giant with eyes on America. June 6, The Guardian.
- Tom Englehardt. 2012. Predator nation: America as a shining drone upon the hill. May 13, Tomdispatch.com.
- Bruce Schneier. 2013. What we don’t know about spying on citizens: Scarier than what we know. June 6, The Atlantic.
- Barton Gelman and Laura Poitras. 2013. US, British intelligence mining data from nine US Internet companies in broad secret program. June 6, Washington Post.
- Todd Miller. 2013. Creating a military-industrial-immigration complex. July 11, TomDispatch.com.
- Daniel Solove. 2013. Five myths about privacy. June 13, Washington Post.
- Ken Dilanian and David Lauter. 2012. Government is tracking all US phone calls. June 6, Los Angeles Times.
- Charlotte Silver. 2013. NDAA: Pre-emptive prosecution coming to a town near you. Feb 20, Al-Jazeera English. Accessed from Reader Supported News.
- Ewan MacAskill. 2013. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again.’ June 8, The Guardian.
- Kim Zetter. 2013. Feds tracked reporter’s movements, personal E-mail in criminal conspiracy investigation. May 20, Wired.com.
- Kim Zetter. 2013. Obama Administration secretly obtains phone records of AP journalists. May 13, Wired.com.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2013. US Air Force veteran, finally allowed to fly into US, is banned from flying home. Feb 9, The Guardian.
- Charlie Savage. 2012. Total information awareness: Sweeping new surveillance measures approved in the US. March 23, New York Times News Service. Accessed online at Truth-out.org.
- James Ball. 2013. Verizon court order: Telephone call metadata and what it can show. June 6, The Guardian.
- Daniel Klaidman. 2012. Drones: How Obama learned to kill. May 28, The Daily Beast.
- Naomi Wolf. 2011. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. Nov 25, The Guardian.
- Noah Schactman. 2010. Google, CIA invest in ‘future’ of web monitoring. July 28, Wired.com.
- RT.com. 2012. Homeland security spends millions for ‘biosurveillance’ of social media networks. Nov 16, RT.com.
- Charlie Savage. 2012. Homeland analysts told to monitor policy debates in social media. Feb 22, New York Times.
- Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain. 2011. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media. Mar 17, The Guardian.
- Jane Mayer. 2011. The secret sharer: Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? May 23, The New Yorker.
- Connor Adams Sheets. 2011. Occupy Wall Street latest target of controversial NYPD surveillance units. Nov 9, International Business Weekly.
- Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Karen DeYoung. 2012. ‘CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say.’ Jan 19, Washington Post.
- Jo Becker and Scott Shane. 2012. Secret ‘kill list’ proves a test of Obama’s principles and will. May 29, New York Times.
- Dexter Filkins. 2013. What we don’t know about drones. Feb 7, The New Yorker. Accessed from Reader Supported News.
- John Markoff. 2011. Government plans to build a ‘data eye in the sky.’ Oct 10, New York Times.
- Ellen Nakashima. 2010. Proposal would ease FBI access to records of internet activity. July 29, Washington Post.
- Occupy Online. 2012. SkyWatch tower: New wave in coercive OWS surveillance. Occupy online.
- Nick Turse. 2011. NY becoming a police state? Occupy Wall Street meets the ‘ring of steel’ at Liberty Square. October 25, Alternet.
- US Department of Homeland Security. 2011. Special coverage: Occupy Wall Street. October, US DHS.
- Kade Crockford and Nancy Murray. 2011. Toward total information awareness. Sept 7, Truthout.
- Margaret Kimberly. 2011. The Obama surveillance state. July 2, Black Agenda Report.
- David Shipler. 2011. Free to search and seize. June 22, New York Times.
- Mark Hughes and Jason Walsh. 2010. Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban. Jan 18, The Independent.
- Jane Mayer. 2011. The secret sharer. May 23, New Yorker Magazine.
- Julian Sanchez. 2010. Obama, Congress wink at massive surveillance abuses. Mar 2, American Prospect.
- Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain. 2011. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media. Mar 17, The Guardian.
- Noel Sharkey and Sarah Knuckey. 2011. Occupy Wall Street’s Occucopter: Who’s watching whom? Dec 21, The Guardian.
- Jay Stanley. 2012. Congress trying to fast-track domestic drone use. Feb 6, ACLU.org.
- Eamon Javers. 2010. CIA moonlights in the corporate world. Feb 1, Politico.com.
- Edward Denison. 2009. The architectural photographer as terrorist. April 21, Open Democracy.
- Joanne Mariner. 2009. A first look at the Military Commissions Act, Part I. Nov 4, Findlaw.
- Joanne Mariner. 2009. A first look at the Military Commissions Act, Part II. Nov 30, Findlaw.
- James Bamford. 2009. The new thought police. Jan 1, PBS.org.
- Ari Melber. 2008. Facebook: The new look of surveillance. Jan 16, Alternet.
- Steven Greenhouse. 2011. Group seeks labor emails from Michigan professors. March 29, New York Times.
- David Kravets. 2010. Obama sides with Bush on spy case. Jan 22, Wired.
- Democracy Now. 2008. CIA invests in software monitoring blogs, Twitter. Oct 22, Democracy Now. (video)
- William Norman Grigg. 2008. Rubicon in the rear-view mirror: Militarizing the police. Oct 6, LewRockwell.com.
- Joseph Fitsanakis. 2008. Political policing in the war on terrorism. Dec 1, IntelNews.
- David Kravets. 2010. Courts, Congress shun addressing legality of warrantless eavesdropping. Jan 29, Wired.
- Kim Zetter. 2010. Author of torture, spy memos was just doing his job. Jan 4, Wired.
- Alex Lantier. 2009. Torture and Washington’s policy of aggressive war. Apr 27, Op-Ed News.
- David Hambling. 2008. Army orders pain ray trucks: New report shows ‘potential for death.’ Oct 6, Wired.
- Warren Richey. 2008. Whose at fault for harsh interrogation tactics? Dec. 9, Christian Science Monitor.
- Kim Zetter. 2010. Threshold for getting onto no-fly list lowered. Jan 6, Wired.
- Tom Burghardt. 2008. Curbing social protest in America: Microwave ‘non-lethal’ weapons to be used for ‘crowd control’. Oct 15, Infowars.com.
- Dahr Jamail. 2006. Tracing the trail of torture: Embedding torture as policy from Guantanamo to Iraq. Mar 5, TomDispatch.com.
- Joby Warrick. 2008. CIA tactics endorsed in secret memos. October 15, Washington Post.
- Kari Lyderson. 2008. Unfolding crisis in wake of Mississippi ICE raids. Sept 19, In These Times.
- Liliana Segura. 2009. Whistleblower levels shocking allegations at Bush’s spying programs. Jan 24, Alternet.
- Tom Burghardt. 2009. Obama Administration endorses continued spying on Americans. Apr 13, Global Research.
- Keith Olbermann. 2009. NSA spied on journalists? Whistleblower reveals surveillance target. Feb 5, MSNBC.
- Washington Spectator. 2007. The end of illegal spying? Don’t count on it. Mar 15, Washington Spectator.
- Lewis Page. 2010. ‘Cyber genome’ project kicked off by DARPA. Jan 26, The Register.
- Kim Zetter. 2009. NSA whistleblower: Wiretaps were combined with credit card records of US citizens. Jan 23, Wired.
- Ryan Singel. 2008. Bush spy revelations anticipated when Obama is sworn in. Nov. 9, Wired.
- Greg Miller. 2009. Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool. Feb 1, Los Angeles Times.
- Lisa Rein. 2008. Maryland police put activsts’ names on terror lists. October 8, Washington Post.
- Bob Drogin. 2008. Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Dec 7, Los Angeles Times.
- Democracy Now. 2008. James Bamford, The shadow factory: The ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on America. Oct 14, Democracy Now. (video)
- Richard B. Schmitt. 2008. Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions. May 12, Los Angeles Times.
- Siobhan Gorman. 2008. NSA’s domestic spying grows as agency sweeps up data. Wall Street Journal, Mar 10.
- Tom Hodgkinson. 2008. With friends like these . . . . Jan 17, The Guardian.
- Matthew Rothschild. 2008. FBI deputizes business. Feb 7, The Progressive.
- Jonathan Landay. 2008. Did US Government snoop on Americans’ phone calls? Oct 9, McClatchy Newspapers.
- Bill Quigley. 2007. Priests jailed for protesting Fort Huachuca torture training. Oct 24. Truthout.
- Ryan Singel. 2007. 700,000 name terror watch list riddled with false information. Sept 7, Wired.
- Lindsey Beyerstein. 2007. Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. Nov 1, In These Times.
- Chalmers Johnson. 2007. Evil empire: Is imperial liquidation possible for America? May 15, TomDispatch.com.
- Scott Shane, David Johnston, James Risen. 2007. Secret US endorsement of severe interrogations. Oct 4, New York Times.
- Michael Rogers. 2006. Department of Defense admits to wider surveillance of don’t ask don’t tell groups. June 26. PageOne.com.
- Mimi Hall. 2007. Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000. Oct 24, USA Today.
- Jane Mayer. 2006. The hidden power. July 3, New Yorker Magazine.
- Justin Rood. 2007. FBI terror watch list ‘out of control.’ June 13, ABC News.
- Clara Jeffery. 2005. The watched. Nov/Dec, Mother Jones.
- Frank Morales. 2006. Bush moves toward martial law. Toward Freedom, Oct 26.
- Maher Arar. 2006. The horrors of extraordinary rendition: A personal account. Oct 27/2, Counterpunch.
- Peter Phillips. 2007. Immigrants used to justify homeland security police state. April 24, twopage.net.
- Brian Ross and Vic Walter. 2007. Report says FBI violated Patriot Act guidelines. March 8, ABCNews.
- Mike Whitney. 2005. Operation Falcon: 10,000 swept up. May 18, Counterpunch.
- Bradley Graham. 2005. Military expands homeland efforts. Jul 6, Washington Post.
- WXIA TV. 2006. ACLU releases government photos. Jan 27, truthout.
- John Friedman. 2005. Spying on the protestors. Sept 19, The Nation.
- Eric Lichtblau and Mark Mazzetti. 2006. Military documents hold tips on antiwar activities. Nov 26, New York Times.
- Jonathan Krim. 2005. Pentagon creating student database. Jun 23, Washington Post.
- Walter Pincus. 2007. Protestors found in database. Jan 17, Washington Post.
- Three articles on the FBI’s spying on journalists and government workers (from ABC, the Nation, and AP–they’re short, treat them as one)
- Jane Mayer. 2006. The CIA’s travel agent. Oct 30, New Yorker Magazine.
- Nick Turse. 2006. American prison planet: The Bush Administration as global jailor. Nov 2, TomDispatch.com.
- Amy Goodman. 2006. They track journalists, don’t they? May 26, Truthout.
- Roger Sideman. 2006. Pentagon ordered to expedite handover of UC spying records. May 28, Santa Cruz Sentinel.
- Joel Bleifuss. 2006. FBI, DoD, NSA: All spying on you. Jan 6, In These Times.
- Seymour Hersh. 2006. Listening in. May 29, The New Yorker.
- Elena Lappin. 2004. Welcome to America. The Guardian, June 5.
- Eric Lichtblaue and Mark Mazzetti. 2006. Military documents hold tips on anti-war activists. Nov 21, New York Times.
- Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. 2006. US taps vast banking database in secret antiterror program, officials say. June 22, New York Times.
- Eric Lichtblau. 2003. US uses terror law to pursue crimes from drugs to swindling. Sept 28, NY Times.
- Leslie Cauley. 2006. NSA has massive database of Americans’ Phone calls. May 11, USA Today.
- Siobhan Gorman. 2006. NSA killed system that filtered phone data legally. May 17, Baltimore Sun.
- Adam Liptak. 2006. In leak cases, new pressure on journalists. April 30, New York Times.
- Robert Parry. 2006. Bush brandishes jail time at critics. April 23, Consortium News.
- Lisa Rein and Josh White. 2009. More groups than thought monitored in police spying. Jan 4, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2005. Outsourcing torture. Feb 15, The New Yorker.
- School of the Americas Watch . 2006. USA: Guantánamo, new torture testimony released as fourth ‘anniversary’ of illegal detentions marked. Jan 11, SOAW.org.
- Jonathan Landay. 2006. FBI documents raise new questions about extent of surveillance. Mar 16, Knight Ridder.
- Tom Englehart. 2006. Shark and awe: From the annals of full-spectrum dominance. Mar 8, TomDispatch.com.
- William Fisher. 2006. Son of Gitmo. Mar 2, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206Z.shtml
- Roberto Lovato. 2003. Big liberty is watching. July 7, In These Times.
- U.S. Department of Defense. 2003. September Sanchez memo (on torture techniques) and October Sanchez memo. Sept 14, US Dept. of Defense.
- Josh White. 2005. New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface Mistreatment Was Routine, Group Is Told. Sept 24, Washington Post.
- BBC. 2006. UN calls for Guantanamo’s closure. Feb 16, BBC
- Doug Struck. 2006. Torture in Iraq still routine, Report says. Jan 25, Washington Post.
- Nat Parry. 2006. Bush’s mysterious ‘new programs.’ Feb 21, Consortium News.
- Mark Clayton. 2006. U.S. plans massive data sweep. Feb 9, Christian Science Monitor.
- Leslie Weise. 2005. A volunteer police state. Salon.com, Apr 25.
- United Press International. 2006. Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger. UPI. February 14.
- John Markoff. 2006. Taking spying to higher level, agencies look for more ways to mine data. Feb 23, New York Times.
- Dan Eggen. 2005. Protesters subjected to ‘pretext’ interviews. Washington Post, May 18.
- Jim VandeHei. 2005. GOP volunteer probed on role at president’s speech. Washington Post, April 23.
- Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. 2005. Spy agency mined vast data trove, officials say. Dec 24, New York Times.
- Declan McCullagh. 2004. Security officials to spy on chat rooms. Nov 24, CNET News.
- Jim Dwyer. 2006. Police officers sue over police surveillance of their protests. Feb 3, New York Times.
- James Bovard. 2004. The Neocon war on peace and freedom. antiwar.com.
- ARDA (Advanced research and development activity). 2005. The Information Exploitation Thrust. (this is a website you’ll have to look through).
- James Bamford. 2005. NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother. Dec 25, New York Times.
- Andy Sullivan. 2004. Govt computer surveillance rings alarm bells. May 27, Reuters.
- Michael Powell and Michelle Garcia. 2004. Arrests at GOP Convention are criticized. Sept 20, Washington Post.
- Dana Milbank. 2004. Secret service not coddling hecklers. Sept 10, Washington Post.
- Dan Eggen. 2004. Policing is aggressive at Bush events. Oct 28, Washington Post.
- Bridget Hall Grummet and Colleen Jenkins. 2004. A George Bush kind of bash. October 20, St. Petersburg Times.
- Darryl Fears. 2004. Report is bleak for whistleblowers. March 11, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2005. Outsourcing torture. Feb 2, New Yorker. Online at Common Dreams.
- Ray McGovern. 2005. Torture in our name. Nov 4, Truth-out.
- Charles Hanley. 2006. Documents show Army seized wives as tactic. Associated Press, Jan 27.
- Christopher Brauchli. 2004. Protecting the president from dissent. August 30, The Daily Camera. Online at Common Dreams.
- Kim Zetter. 2004. Big business becoming Big Brother. Aug 9, Wired. Online at Common Dreams.
- James Ridgeway. 2003. An informed citizenry. Village Voice.
- Matthew Rothschild. 2004. Denied entrace to Bush event in Dubuque. May 20, The Progressive.
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 2003. Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program. May 20, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Accessed online at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
- Edward Lazarus. 2005. Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive’s Sapping of Power From Congress and the Courts. Dec 22, Findlaw.com.
- Edward Lazarus. 2001. The Bush Administration and secrecy: Limiting What We Can Know About The Government, While Expanding What It Can Know About Us. November 21, Findlaw.com.
- Eric Lichtblau. 2003. U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling. September 28, New York Times.
- Declan McCullagh. 2002. RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages. cnet news.com.
- John Flemming. 2003. Privacy: The menace of satellite surveillance. June 19, EducateYourself.
- Eric Lichtblau. 2003. FBI scrutinizes anti-war rallies. November 22, New York Times.
- ACLU. 2003. ACLU Slams Classified FBI Memorandum Directing Law Enforcement to Engage in Protest Suppression Tactics. Nov 23, ACLU.
- William Safire. 2002. You are a suspect. November 22, New York Times.
- Scott Granneman. 2003. RFID chips are here. June 27, The Register.
- Patrick Tylor. 2002. Spy wars begin at home. Nov 5, New York Times.
- Department of Defense briefing. 2002. Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (interview). Oct 24, Federation of American Scientists.
- U.S. Department of Justice. 2003. Neighborhood Watch Programs. Washington, DC.
- Jeremy Lott. 2002. Volunteerism goes undercover. Jul 31, American Prospect.
- American Civil Liberties Union. 2005. The emergence of a global infrastructure for mass registration and surveillance. April 1, ACLU.org.
- Jason Halperin. 2003. Patriot raid. Apr 29, Alternet.
- David Lindorf. 2002. The no-fly list: Is a federal agency systematically harassing travelers for their political beliefs? Nov 22, In These Times.
- David Cole. 2003. Patriot act’s big brother. The Nation, March 17.
- Major Garrett. 2002. Pentagon to track American consumer purchases. Nov 21, Fox News.
- Carl Takei. 2003. Building a nation of snoops. May 14, Boston Globe.
- Jerry Langdon. 2003. Big Brother is watching you–at work. Apr 26, USA Today.
- Noah Schachtman. 2003. A spy machine of DARPA’s dreams. May 20, Wired.
