Ted Rall: On J Edgar Hoover, Porn and NSA Porn

Here’s our Pulitzer-nominated cartoonist Ted Rall on NSA, NSA porn and J Edgar Hoover. Commentary.

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.

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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.