The USA FREEDOM Act as it stands will make Americans less safe while contributing little or nothing to their privacy. The bulk collection program the bill abolishes grew from a very real intelligence ...
The future of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program is in serious doubt, which raises the questions: how useful is it to the intelligence community, and what will they do if it goes away? Update: ...
The government's widespread collection of phone metadata is probably unconstitutional, a district judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted the plaintiffs' request for an ...
In 1999, according to an N.S.A. Inspector General report leaked by Edward Snowden, lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department ruled that searching telephone metadata amounted to unauthorized ...
Trump’s 21-Point Plan Misses the Only Point That Matters The Tricky Politics of Government Shutdowns Marjorie Taylor Greene Earns Her Strange New Respect the Old-Fashioned Way America’s Young ...
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied Larry Klayman's emergency petition for rehearing en banc of the appeals court's decision to stay a lower court injunction against the ...
The NSA's vaunted cell phone metadata collection program, often defended on the grounds that its comprehensive sweep of information allows the government to uncover unseen connections, only collected ...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court announced today that it has approved President Obama's request to change to the NSA's section 215 metadata collection program. Obama did not choose to end ...