monday reads

Jane Mayer - The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program


Balkinization has many links to posts that help clarify and analyze the new FISA bill.


Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed into law an act enabling state security agents to monitor phone lines, mail and the Internet, a government notice published on Friday said.


The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.


IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.