Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.