Robert Baer: How long can the NSA sit on a line, figuring out whether it is of real interest, before applying for a warrant? I'll leave that one up to the constitutional lawyers, but I'll be eagerly listening for their answer.
Thomas Powers: Is more what we really need?
On Patrick Radden Keefe's book: Chatter is a journey through a bizarre and shadowy world with vast implications for our security as well as our privacy.
From six years ago: The found words and sentence fragments can be strung out at random on the display monitors or made to race across the screens in constant streams, like a Times Square zipper, giving the thing a Jenny Holzer-like gnomic and oracular quality.
The Risks of Relying on 'Chatter' | 
