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Are You Reading My Emails? Former State Dept. Official Asks the NSA.

What happens when a former top-level State Department official asks the government to reveal if it’s reading his communications? John Kael Weston on his adventures in our national-security state.

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Passport-less Edward Snowden remains in the transfer area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport seeking asylum—to land somewhere else, eventually. This transient location is not the best place from which to help force an overdue debate on clandestine activities of the National Security Agency (NSA).

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