GOP Lawmakers’ Many Privacy Hypocrisies

by Dana Floberg, contributor at CommonDreams Internet users took a hard loss this week in the fight for broadband privacy and internet freedom — but if you listen to the Republican lawmakers who trashed our privacy rights, you’d think they’d done the opposite.

Al Gore: Snowden Revealed Crimes ‘Way More Serious’ Than Any He Committed

Former vice president says NSA overreach poses “a threat to democracy.” – by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Former Vice President Al Gore, who on Tuesday said Edward Snowden performed “an important service” saying that Edward Snowden’s revelations showed the NSA’s “threat to democracy”