WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance programs has foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide in a forceful ...
An NSA program that collects electronic information on U.S. residents who are communicating with foreign targets is a valuable and effective tool for fighting terrorism, but also goes "right up to the ...
Government surveillance at a large scale functionally suppresses First Amendment-protected speech, association and inquiry ...
A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...
The fallout from the recent disclosures of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs continues to spread. On Monday, the European Parliament Civil Liberties Commission voted ...
Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It turns out, at ...
The defenses of the National Security Agency's program to collect and store records of every phone call and every email have not been very impressive. The NSA defenders point to a secret court that ...
President Obama wants America to know that the PRISM scandal, which revealed the NSA and FBI have unfettered access to the data centers of companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, actually only ...
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections ...
After 12-and-a-half years, President Obama will ask Congress to end the collection of metadata on Americans' phone calls. But he runs the NSA; why not just shut it off? For several reasons: First, to ...