Robert Baer:

How long can the NSA sit on a line, figuring out whether it is of real interest, before applying for a warrant? I'll leave that one up to the constitutional lawyers, but I'll be eagerly listening for their answer.

Thomas Powers:

Is more what we really need?

On Patrick Radden Keefe's book:

Chatter is a journey through a bizarre and shadowy world with vast implications for our security as well as our privacy.

From six years ago:

The found words and sentence fragments can be strung out at random on the display monitors or made to race across the screens in constant streams, like a Times Square zipper, giving the thing a Jenny Holzer-like gnomic and oracular quality.