Peter Maass

Peter Maass appears in the following:

Lessons from Serbia for the Trump Era

Friday, February 17, 2017

Serbian demagogue Slobodan Milošević promised a "Greater Serbia" and said it was time to start winning again. Sound familiar?

Michael Bay's Benghazi Blockbuster Flop

Friday, January 22, 2016

Michael Bay's take on Benghazi, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, stokes the Republican anti-Hillary fire. 

The Socrates of the NSA

Friday, August 21, 2015

Buried in the trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden was a series of internal opinion columns entitled The SIGINT Philosopher. How'd the NSA wind up with an in-house philosopher?

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Stephen Kim's Leak

Friday, March 20, 2015

Stephen Kim is in prison for speaking about a classified document with a reporter, but according to journalist Peter Maass the government threw the book at the wrong leaker. 

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The NSA Has An Advice Columnist

Friday, September 26, 2014

When employees of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Division need advice about workplace frustrations they can write 'Zelda.'

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A Role Model for Security Savvy Journos

Friday, August 16, 2013

The first time Edward Snowden wanted to leak information to Glenn Greenwald it didn't go so well -- Greenwald was stymied by the security requirements Snowden demanded before communicating sensitive information online. Brooke talks with journalist Peter Maass about the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and how Snowden ended up securely communicating with her.

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The Story Behind Snowden's Leaks

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, along with columnist Glenn Greenwald, helped Edward Snowden expose the NSA. Peter Maass, an investigative reporter, recently conducted an intervie...

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Will the Petraeus Scandal Be Good for Privacy?

Friday, November 16, 2012

Privacy is among the many issues raised by the Petraeus affair. We don’t know exactly what the FBI did, or what sort of legal barriers they had to surmount to get access. Reporter Peter Maass wrote that an unexpected consequence of Petreaus’s fall is that we all might learn a little more about how the FBI operates. Brooke spoke with Maass about an unlikely connection between the Petraeus scandal and former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork. 

Johan Borger - Goodnight My Friend

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Cell Phones as Trackers

Friday, July 20, 2012

ProPublica’s Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan explain how the cell phone, the device that most people carry around all the time, can be used as a tracker. In a piece jointly published by ProPublica and the New York Times Sunday Review, they describe how cell phones track "what we buy, where and when we buy it, how much money we have in the bank, whom we text and email, what Web sites we visit, how and where we travel, what time we go to sleep and wake up.”  They also look into how much of that data is shared with companies who use it for marketing.

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Did the Media Inflate the Significance of Toppling Saddam Hussein Statue?

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

When is what the world knows as an iconic moment, perhaps not an iconic moment? On April 9, 2003, a large statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was taken down by U.S. security forces in Baghdad's Firdos Square. The two-hour toppling took place in front of the Palestine Hotel, where journalists from around the world had been staying. And many reporters hailed it as a sign the U.S. was prevailing in the war and bringing Iraqis closer to liberation.

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Outsourcing the Dangers of Oil Drilling

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

It's been 100 days since the oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. BP CEO Tony Hayward is being packed off to Russia for his bungling of the explosion's aftermath, but tainted managers aren't the only thing big oil is shipping overseas; they're also moving operations to countries with lax regulations.

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Crude World

Monday, September 28, 2009

Peter Maass, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, explains the consequences of our addiction to oil. In Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, he presents the problems oil has created around the world, from Saudi Arabia to Venezuela to Guatemala and Nigeria.

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