Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military [...]

CNN.com James Clapper was confirmed unanimously by the Senate Thursday night to be the nation’s next intelligence chief. Clapper, tapped by President Obama for the Director of National Intelligence job, will oversee the nation’s 16 spy agencies. He will be the fourth person in the position since it was created five years ago. He succeeds [...]

Mimi Hall | USA Today.com The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons. Six years after the government began exploring [...]

Ilya Shapiro | Cato At Liberty.org Elena Kagan’s confirmation represents a victory for big government and a view of the Constitution as a document whose meaning changes with the times.  Based on what we learned the last few months, it is clear that Kagan holds an expansive view of federal power — refusing to identify, [...]

Declan McCullugh | CNet.com For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing [...]