The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 24/2013 (June 10, 2013) of DER SPIEGEL. Obama, der verlorene Freund "It's about rendering people and their behavior predictable. The NSA's research projects aim to forecast, on the basis of telephone data and Twitter and Facebook posts, when uprisings, social protests and other events will occur." "...Gus Hunt added, almost apologetically: "Technology in this world is moving faster than government or law can keep up."
Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Tuesday 5 February 2013 The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize In September 2011, it killed US citizen Anwar Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed Awlaki's 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike in Yemen.
Tom Junod on July 9, 2012 "how a policy built on technological precision and moral discrimination winds up blurring the lines between guilt and innocence and war and murder. "
In December 2008, Davis went to work as a researcher at the Library of Congress in the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division. None of his work was related to Guantanamo. He was not a spokesperson for, or a public face of, the library. He was respected at work. Even the people who fired him do not contest that he did his “day job” as a researcher well. On November 12, 2009, the day after his op-ed and letter appeared, Davis was told by his boss that the pieces had caused the library concern over his “poor judgment and suitability to serve… not consistent with 'acceptable service'" -- as the letter of admonishment he received put the matter. It referred only to his op-ed and Washington Post letter, and said nothing about his work performance as a researcher. One week later, Davis was fired.