Tuesday Miscellany!

• We've often heard "The NSA's PRISM-style surveillance would have stopped another 9/11." Bruce Schneier puts that myth to bed here. Also, check out today's NSA Exploit of the Day on his blog.


• The DEA and the Sinaloa cartel of Mexico had a sweet deal going for ten years. The Sinaloa Cartel would provide intelligence to the US on other cartels. In exchange, the US would look the other way as the Sinolas brought billions of dollars in drug profits back to Mexico. In the DEA's defense, we've made bigger deals with worse players.


• How meth fuels the Syrian civil war.


• CNN bloviates about Hillary Clinton's "Iowa Problem."


• Steven Levy gets inside the NSA. Unsurprisingly, the NSA sees themselves as the good guys, believes they are protecting our privacy, and really hates Snowden.