Make NSA programs more transparent
Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, is chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. The National Security Agency (NSA) program based on section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which collects...
View ArticleObama, members of Congress discuss NSA programs
Story Highlights President Obama discussed NSA surveillance programs with members of CongressMeeting featured congressional critics and supporters of surveillance programsSpokesman: Obama seeks...
View ArticleNSA faces backlash over collecting phone data
WASHINGTON — A reporter recently asked the National Security Agency’s chief a blunt question: Why can’t he come up with a better example of a terrorism plot foiled through the bulk collection of U.S....
View ArticleRichard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, Tom Udall Unveil Bill To Reform FISA Court
WASHINGTON -- A group of Democratic senators introduced legislation Thursday to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court amid revelations that it secretly authorizes widespread surveillance...
View ArticleFISA Bill Introduced To Declassify Court Opinions Used To Justify Surveillance
WASHINGTON -- Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), joined by a group of Democrats and Republicans, introduced a bill Tuesday to require the attorney general to declassify legal opinions...
View ArticleObama To Meet With Lawmakers On NSA Surveillance
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama continued to defend the National Security Agency's widespread surveillance programs behind closed doors to Senate Democrats on Wednesday, but on Thursday he faces a...
View ArticleDocuments: NSA violated court orders on collection of phone records
WASHINGTON — National Security Agency officials violated secret federal court orders authorizing the daily collection of domestic email and telephone data from hundreds of millions of Americans,...
View ArticleDocuments show NSA violated court orders on collection of phone records
WASHINGTON National Security Agency officials violated secret federal court orders authorizing the daily collection of domestic email and telephone data from hundreds of millions of Americans,...
View ArticleTimothy Edgar: Big Transparency for the NSA
By TIMOTHY EDGAR 'Big data" is one name for the insight that collecting all the information in a massive database will uncover facts that collecting only some of the information cannot. This is not...
View ArticleThe NSA's Future: A Tale of Two Committees
Russia granted Edward Snowden a year's worth of refugee status on Thursday, and that may be just enough time to determine whether America's most prominent dissident will achieve his stated goal of...
View ArticleObama pushed for tighter regulation of NSA surveillance as a senator
Only five years ago, Obama was part of a group of legislators that supported substantial changes to NSA surveillance programs Barack Obama, when he was a senator, during the confirmation hearing for...
View ArticleIf Obama wanted an 'open debate' on NSA spying, why thwart one for so long?
Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post "Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida", when he...
View ArticleNSA revelations of privacy breaches 'the tip of the iceberg' – Senate duo
Leading critics of NSA Ron Wyden and Mark Udall say 'public deserves to know more about violations of secret court orders' Senator Ron Wyden (above) and Mark Udall said: 'We believe Americans should...
View ArticleTime to hold the NSA accountable
The National Security Administration's surveillance program (PRISM) has been under fire for the past three months for spying on Americans after former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked...
View ArticleSenate intelligence committee director denies NSA collects data on Americans’...
WASHINGTON The staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a statement late Wednesday denying that the National Security Agency gathers information on where Americans are when they use...
View ArticleUS intelligence chiefs urge Congress to preserve surveillance programs
Officials refuse to say in Senate testimony whether cell site data had ever been used to pinpoint an individual's location Senator Dianne Feinstein speaks with director of national intelligence James...
View ArticleUdall, Heinrich Back Effort to End Dragnet Collection of Phone Data & Add...
(Source: United States Senate) WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are backing legislation that seeks to restore Americans' privacy rights by ending the government's dragnet...
View ArticleFeinstein plans bill to codify NSA's phone spying
Washington -- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has set up a clash with another powerful senior Democrat and drawn criticism from civil libertarians on the left and right for her defense of a national...
View ArticleACLU sues over NSA surveillance program
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows May Mire NSA Spy Limits in Politics
U.S. intelligence leaders may be able to count on lawmakers’ dysfunction, if not the usual kind, when they appeal to a Senate panel today to preserve National Security Agency spy programs. Lawmakers...
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