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I'll talk w/ Byron Tau about the marriage of big govt & big tech and the spying that's led to.
I'll also talk w/ Jack Sweeney about why he's tracking the planes of Elon Musk & Taylor Swift.

Listen on wabcradio.com. Call in at 800-848-9222.

I hope the Nats find a way to appropriately celebrate the career of an incredible player who helped deliver a World Series trophy rather than the ongoing sour grapes about his salary.

Great Jasmine Wright story-

This week on The Dynamist, Evan Swarztrauber interviews Byron Tau on data brokers and the next generation surveillance state. Listen and subscribe! ⏩

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1/ NEW PODCAST: Byron Tau, journalist & author of Means of Control, How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State – discusses details of his investigative reporting w. Elizabeth Goitein Brennan Center and our general counsel, Gene Schaerr.

Very excited for Joseph Cox 'Dark Wire' which tells the tale of how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone service called Anom. And if you preorder now, you will get a digital booklet of behind-the-scenes reporting.

Check it out!
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Thanks to Rick Wilson for having me on to discuss Means of Control!

An article that manages to combine my twin passions of real life espionage cases and the D.C. restaurant scene. washingtonian.com/2024/04/01/an-…

This paper was quite a good read — even for non-lawyers! — on the ways in which U.S. courts might resurrect an old 'rummaging' doctrine to bring the 4th Amendment into the 21st century.

Ill-fated CIA mission is the origin of the phrase 'cannot confirm nor deny' in response to journalist FOIA requests for information about what the heck the Glomar Explorer was doing.

Report: 'Adversary' Responsible for Havana Syndrome Attacks. 60 Minutes says it has new 'evidence' of foreign adversary attacks on US officials, but it can't name who or why. spytalk.co/p/report-adver…

NEWS: DHS 'paused' buying access to data the movement of phones after an inspector general report last year. Three people familiar with the matter tell me it is unlikely to resume that program — which critics say amounted to warrantless surveillance.
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Powerful The Wall Street Journal front page today — a reminder that American reporter Evan Gershkovich has been unjustly detained by Putin's Russia for a full year and the world has been denied his incisive and in-depth reporting. #FreeEvan

Thank you to Elias Groll and CyberScoop for having me the Safe Mode podcast to talk about Means of Control. Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Miranda and David continue to dominate the story of how energy interests are investing heavily in shaping the news and information environment — and their latest is another banger.

NEW from me & David Folkenflik:

Chevron since 2009 has been building a network of news seeming sites from Ecuador to Richmond, CA to, most recently, the Permian Basin.

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New: Russian trolls farms linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin remain active months after the mercenary chief died in a plane crash and are likely to continue peddling disinformation aimed at influencing opinions on the war in Ukraine and the 2024 U.S. elections wsj.com/politics/natio…

Thank you! And this is a great example of how reporting can be collaborative, with journalists from different outlets building on each other's reporting to get to a larger truth. Dhruv and Dell have picked up where I left off in their amazing story today
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