The civilized response to Charlie Hebdo attacks: more surveillance

NSA headquarters, photographed by Trevor Paglen, via HRW.


NSA headquarters, photographed by Trevor Paglen, via HRW.

"As politicians drape themselves in the flag of free speech and freedom of the press in response to the tragic murder of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists," writes Freedom of the Press Foundation's Trevor Timm at the Guardian, "they've also quickly moved to stifle the same rights they claim to love.

Government officials on both sides of the Atlantic are now renewing their efforts to stop NSA reform as they support free speech-chilling surveillance laws that will affect millions of citizens that have never been accused of terrorism."