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Presidential Panel Tells NSA to Stop Weakening Encryption Flickr: IntelFreePress
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Presidential Panel Tells NSA to Stop Weakening Encryption

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / December 21, 2013
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / July 23, 2013
What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance Flickr: beaugiles
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What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / July 22, 2013
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Ed Rendell’s Plea for Fracking Fails to Disclose Industry Ties

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / April 1, 2013
Big Corporations Dominate Dark Money Group’s Secret Donor List
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Big Corporations Dominate Dark Money Group’s Secret Donor List

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / February 14, 2013
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FCC’s Plan to Put Political Ad Data Online Falls Short

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / December 11, 2012
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The Campaign Finance Free-for-All: How We Got to This Point

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / October 18, 2012

How Politicians and the Press Overstated Military Budget Cuts by $100B

By JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA / August 15, 2012

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