Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act as well as for theft and conspiracy for copying the Pentagon Papers. The trial was dismissed in 1973 after evidence of government misconduct, including illegal wiretapping, was introduced in court.
The Financial Times and Washington Post reported on 13 June that the European Commission – before the full scope of PRISM became known – watered down its proposed Data Protection Regulation to weaken rules for transferring data to law enforcement authorities outside the EU.
Oh boy. The “Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property” has released its long awaited report, and it’s 90 or so pages of doom, gloom, and the bizarre – including one section that had me almost literally doing a “spit-take” onto my screens while sipping my morning coffee.