News in Brief NSA Surveillance: Better Down the Stretch Than at the Start Looking at 20 years of jihadist plots in the West, a leading expert on terrorism finds that Internet surveillance has its uses but is no panacea. Michael Todd
News in Brief A Security Scholar Talks About the NSA Scandal "They’ve established a Google for police and intelligence operations by siphoning off all the data that we’re producing through telecommunications and other forms of data production." Marc Herman