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36. David Jackson, “Obama: NSA Surveillance Programs Are ‘Transparent,’” USA
TODAY, June 18, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/06/18/
obama-charlie-rose-program-nsa-surveillance/2433549/.
37. Peter Baker, “After Leaks, Obama Leads Damage Control Effort,” The New York
Times, June 28, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/us/politics/after-
leaks-obama-leads-damage-control-effort.html?pagewanted=all.
38. Trevor Timm, “The NSA Leaks are Forcing More Transparency on Both Com-
panies and the Government,” Freedom of the Press Foundation, June 15, 2013,
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/06/nsa-leaks-are-forcing-
more-transparency-both-companies-and-government.
39. Ellen Nakashima, “Bipartisan Group of Senators Urges Transparency on
Phone Record Surveillance,” The Washington Post, June 28, 2013, http://
articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-28/world/40251889_1_phone-
records-bulk-collection-senators.
40. Scott Shane and David E. Sanger, “Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by
Snowden,” The New York Times, June 30, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
07/01/us/job-title-key-to-inner-access-held-by-snowden.html?
pagewanted=all.
41. Vindu Goel & Claire Cain Miller, “More Data on Privacy, but Picture Is
No Clearer,” The New York Times, June 17, 2013, http://www.nytimes.
com/2013/06/18/technology/more-data-on-privacy-but-picture-is-no-clearer.
html.
42. Spencer Ackerman, “Senators Press NSA Director for Answers on Secret Sur-
veillance Program,” The Guardian, June 12, 2013, http://www.guardian.co.uk/
world/2013/jun/12/senate-nsa-director-keith-alexander.
43. Leonard H. Schrank and Juan C. Zarate, “Data Mining, without Big Brother,” The
New York Times, July 2, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/opinion/
data-mining-without-big-brother.html?_r=0.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. In 2001, six men from Buffalo, New York, took a trip to Pakistan for a spiri-
tual retreat sponsored by Tablighi Jamaat—a group that, while associated with
radicalism, was not designated as a terrorist organization. While there, how-
ever, the six men were accused of attending a terrorist training camp called Al
Farooq and supposedly listened to a speech delivered by Osama bin Laden.
No evidence was presented of a forthcoming plot on their part. There were
no weapons found, no history of violence uncovered, nor was there any “clear
and convincing evidence” that the six men were planning any sort of terrorist
act. Yet they were still charged under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death
Penalty act with a possible fifteen years in prison and $250,000 fine for their
activities. JoAnn Wypijewski, “Living in an Age of Fire,” Mother Jones (March/
April 2003), http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/03/living-age-fire.
47. Kim Dotcom, “Prism: Concerns over Government Tyranny Are Legitimate,”
The Guardian, June 13, 2013, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/
jun/13/prism-utah-data-center-surveillance.