U.S. collecting huge number of phone records
WASHINGTON • A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive...
View ArticleMonumental phone-records monitoring laid bare in US
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the US government's surveillance of Americans' phone records - hundreds of millions of calls - in the first hard evidence of a massive data...
View ArticleFor Obama and the Senate, NSA Spying is Business as Usual
By Matt Purple on 6.6.13 @ 12:43PM Last night, the Guardian revealed that the National Security Agency obtained a secret order from a FISA court to harvest all Verizon customer metadata over a...
View ArticleWashington Turns on the NSA Blinders to Target Weird 'IT Guy' Leaker Instead
Most members of Congress are not outraged by the National Security Agency's programs to collect all phone calls and emails. They are outraged that someone would expose the existence of those programs....
View ArticleMark Udall, Ron Wyden Reject Obama Claim About NSA Phone Records Collection
Two Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee rejected claims President Barack Obama made Friday that the National Security Agency's phone records collection program strikes the "right...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Says NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Should Be Prosecuted
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Edward Snowden, who has claimed responsibility for the leak of National Security Agency surveillance programs, should be...
View ArticleUtah’s Lee wants public access to secret court rulings
Washington • A group of senators has revived legislation that would declassify many secret court rulings in intelligence cases, a reaction to revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive...
View Article>Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leaked document lays bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive...
View ArticleJeff Merkley Pushes NSA Chief Over Surveillance, Says Legal Standards Have...
WASHINGTON -- Towards the end of his hearing Wednesday on cyber threats and the intelligence community’s surveillance efforts, Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, was asked...
View ArticleBush-Era NSA Director Says Obama 'Expanded' Surveillance Programs
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View ArticleNSA, FBI scour hundreds of millions of phone records, Internet firms’ files
Updated: June 6, 2013 10:32PM WASHINGTON — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the...
View ArticleDionne: NSA furor offers chance for nonpartisan debate
The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths. We know that our government will continue with large-scale surveillance programs to prevent future terrorist attacks. We also know...
View ArticleDisclosure of internet surveillance programme 'reprehensible', US...
WASHINGTON: James Clapper, the director of US national intelligence, has reacted sharply after leaked documents revealed information about two top-secret intelligence-gathering programmes. In an...
View Article>Obama embracing some Bush-era anti-terror policies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years into his presidency, Barack Obama presides over a national security apparatus that in many ways still resembles the one left behind by President George W. Bush. Drones are...
View ArticleObama embracing some Bush-era anti-terror policies
JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years into his presidency, Barack Obama presides over a national security apparatus that in many ways still resembles the one left behind by...
View ArticleDionne: NSA furor offers chance for nonpartisan debate
The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths. We know that our government will continue with large-scale surveillance programs to prevent future terrorist attacks. We also know...
View ArticleUS lawmakers call for review of Patriot Act after NSA surveillance revelations
White House insists it welcomes 'appropriate debate' after Republican leadership questions implementation of security act Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee, had asked for a...
View ArticleSenators strike at surveillance laws authorizing NSA's warrantless data...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is attempting to rein in controversial provisions that have given US intelligence agencies broad authority to conduct warrantless...
View ArticleNSA Deletes Surveillance 'Fact' Sheet
WASHINGTON -- A day after coming under fire from congressional critics, the National Security Agency is trying to flush a controversial surveillance "fact sheet" down the memory hole. That fact sheet...
View ArticleEdward Snowden’s NSA leaks are the backlash of too much secrecy
Keep your distance: The director of national intelligence is having intestinal distress. “For me, it is literally -- not figuratively, literally -- gut-wrenching to see this happen,” James Clapper told...
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