aNewDomain.net — According to leaked NSA documents, it turns out that the National Security Agency is tracking online sexual activities — as well as the porn-viewing of Americans and foreigners. The purpose of this is exactly what you’d suspect: to harass and discredit enemies of the state. Among the targets, according to the leaked NSA documents, are a respected academic and a well-known actor. Here’s more on the NSA, NSA porn and what J. Edgar Hoover has to do with it. For aNewDomain.net, I’m Ted Rall.
Based in New York, Ted Rall is a nationally-syndicated columnist, editorial cartoonist and war correspondent who specializes in Afghanistan and Central Asia. The author of 17 books, most-recently published The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt, Rall is twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Follow him @TedRall, check out his Facebook fan page and definitely follow his Google+ stream here. Ted’s upcoming book After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan is due out in 2014.