Recommended read from Salon.com: "It’s pure authoritarianism": Glenn Greenwald exposes the link between Baltimore's uprising and the NSA

"It got lost in all the hubbub of the uprising in Baltimore, as well as the addition of a few more candidates to the 2016 presidential election, but according to reports from multiple sources last week, it's looking more probable than ever that the so-called Patriot Act will not be reauthorized until after it's undergone some privacy-protecting revisions. The distance between vague promises in a report and an actual change to the bill's infamously broad language is considerable, of course. But absent the waves of outrage inspired by leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden — whose collaboration with Salon alum and Intercept founding editor Glenn Greenwald recently led to an Academy Award — it's hard to imagine reformers ever getting even this close."