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17 Jul 2008, 4:34 pm
Turns out that bigfoot blogger Spencer Ackerman called it "the greatest [book] ever written about the CIA. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 8:35 am
Here they are: Floyd Abrams Spencer Ackerman David Addington Mike Allen Michael Anton Kurt Armfeld (?) [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 11:56 pm
Spencer Ackerman, who used to work for us at TPMmuckraker, captured it pretty well in this blog post: If you want to understand what it's like to work at TPM, spend a couple days with your ten smartest friends and constantly IM with them. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 7:10 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Wired’s Spencer Ackerman shares the news that NATO agreed late last week to jointly fund an airborne surveillance system with Global Hawk drones, although the timetable remains up in the air. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 1:02 pm by Ritika Singh
Spencer Ackerman of Wired Danger Room and Shirin Sadeghi of the Huffington Post, report on President Obama and Secretary Clinton’s remarks on Libya, respectively. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 5:09 am by Benjamin Wittes
But the more important point the Times raises here is the one Spencer Ackerman raised in our earlier exchange: Why should we trust an executive-only process? [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 7:56 pm
Spencer Ackerman and Paul Kiel have a theory: Alberto Gonzales' testimony that there was "no serious disagreement" within the Bush Administration about the NSA warrantless surveillance program has left senators sputtering and fulminating about the attorney general's apparent prevarications. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 2:00 pm by LindaMBeale
  See OMB Watch, What Makes Defense Spending so Special (discussing Spencer Ackerman at the Washington Independent on Just in Time for the Discretionary Freeze, New Report Says Defense Spending is Unsustainable (Jan 26, 2010); and Matt Yglesias at Think Progress on The Defense Budget and Political Will (Jan. 26, 2010)). [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 1:46 pm by Ritika Singh
Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room reports on Jeh Johnson’s Oxford Union speech, which Ben linked to earlier. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 10:54 am by Ritika Singh
The Pentagon’s research wing is holding its first Cyber Colloquium in an effort to come up with new solutions to many of the vulnerabilites inherent in defense systems–including drones–reports Spencer Ackerman of Wired magazine’s Danger Room. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 3:07 am
 The Economist cites Spencer Ackerman who notes “the military lament that only a select and small proportion of the country is actually at war. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 6:53 pm by Jeralyn
Adam Clark Estes at the Atlantic Wire and Spencer Ackerman at Wired report the program is "a one-stop shop for private security contractors around the world, soliciting deals worth over $3 billion. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 9:58 pm
Here’s Spencer Ackerman’s appropriate characterization of this rancid system: But the scope of McCaffrey’s hustle is really breathtaking. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 6:53 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Spencer Ackerman at Wired’s Danger Room blog writes that the DHS is soliciting industry feedback on a “Wide Area Surveillance System,” which could collect video of almost 4 square miles of American soil at once. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 8:33 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Spencer Ackerman also blogged on his remarks at Wired’s Danger Room blog. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:56 am by Ritika Singh
Spencer Ackerman at Wired’s Danger Room offers his thoughts on Gen. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 7:48 am by Bill
They did it because—as Spencer Ackerman points out—the Military Commissions Act of 2006 expressly provided that detainees get defense lawyers. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 2:17 pm by interns
And in case any of you was thinking about purchasing “Saddamorabilia” for your secret collection–maybe a piece of Saddam’s butt from a Baghdad statue or, perhaps, “a sword that once belonged to the ‘Butcher of Baghdad’”–Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room has an important warning you should consider in today’s Moment of Zen. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 11:20 am by Ritika Singh
Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room dissects the talk. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 5:11 am by Benjamin Wittes
As I am still pondering the issues some of my interlocutors raise, I will not for now add my own thoughts, save my thanks to Spencer Ackerman and Marcy Wheeler for making me think much harder about what I thought was a pretty obvious point. [read post]