Policy, Politics & Culture
Policy, Politics and Culture around the Web The Washington Post’s “Top Secret America” series is back. Today’s episode concerns the vast growth in information-gathering by state and local governments using funding, equipment and methods provided by the federal government. Some of the information gathered by local agencies has ended up in an FBI database called Guardian which contains profiles of tens of thousands of U.S. residents and “161,948 suspicious activity files.” Glenn Greenwald offers his take here.
Domestic politics still clashes with strategic imperatives in U.S. Afghan policy.
To whom are we planning to hand off the war against the Taliban? An inside look at the Afghan National Army.
Pakistan is stuck fast in a crisis of governability.
Friend, foe or master of hedging? Pakistan may be all three.
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell MeadPeter BergerEconomics, Etc.Insight and analysisCurated aggregation with contextContinuing the Conversation
