REAL ID: George W. Bush’s Trojan Horse for Surveillance State
You thought the Patriot Act and secret FISA courts were bad? Enter the REAL ID Act, quietly signed into law by George W. Bush on May 11, 2005
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Pssst: It’s not just Twitter and the FBI
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald delivered a memorable and hard-hitting speech at the University of Utah in April 2015 titled “Edward Snowden and the Secrets of the National Security State.” His remarks focused on the National Security Agency’s collection of billions of communications of ordinary, law abiding U.S. citizens. He emphasized that, even then, nearly eight …