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Julian Sanchez

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Julian Sanchez (@normative) is a senior fellow at Cato and focuses primarily on issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, civil liberties, and new media — but also writes more broadly about political philosophy and social psychology. Before joining Cato, Sanchez served as the Washington Editor for the technology news site Ars Technica, where he covered surveillance, intellectual property, and telecom policy. Prior to that, he was an assistant editor for Reason magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. Sanchez’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, Reason, The Guardian, Techdirt, The American Spectator, and Hispanic, among others, and he blogs regularly for The Economist’s Democracy in America. Sanchez studied philosophy and political science at New York University. Sanchez is also on LinkedIn.

Areas of Expertise: Technology, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Surveillance

Selected Media Appearances
Television
New NSA Allegations – Al Jazeera America
Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance – MSNBC (All In with Chris Hayes)
Julian Sanchez discusses FISA – CNN (The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer)

Radio
NSA spying on TORWWL (The Think Tank)
Your Digital Trail: Data Fuels Political And Legal Agendas – NPR (All Things Considered)
Julian Sanchez discusses Edward Snowden  – CNN Radio

Online
White House considers appointing civilian NSA chief amid calls for reform – The Guardian
Feinstein gives the NSA what it wants – MSNBC
Where’s the oversight on NSA spying? – Politico

Articles by this author:

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The Statue of Liberty at sunset. The sky is a mix of red and orange and the Statue of Liberty is seen as a silhouette. Construction can been seen as silhouettes in the background.
Side by side photographs of Liza Goitein, Andrew McCabe, Mary McCord, and Julian Sanchez.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) talk strategy before a news conference about their proposed reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 16, 2018 in Washington, DC. The senators are part of a bipartisan group that supports legislation they say would protect Americans from foreign threats while preserving their privacy.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies about the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 11, 2019.
U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 18, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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