Senate Republicans, including NSA opponent Rand Paul, kill surveillance limiting bill
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a measure to overhaul the NSA monitoring program, the collection of records and phone calls. Democrats and a few Republicans failed to rally enough support to reach 60 votes More...
President Obama pleases no one with NSA reform plans
President Barack Obama laid out a vision of modest changes for the National Security Agency in a speech that will likely please neither reformers nor agency defenders. In response to the leaked documents from Edward More...
Glenn Greenwald says the goal of the NSA program is ‘destroy privacy’ worldwide
The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, warned former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, during an EU inquiry to discuss the NSA and their “ability to destroy privacy.” Greenwald, More...
Recommended NSA Overhaul: Civilian leadership replaces military, tighter standards to get phone records from companies
President Obama’s task force has put forth their recommendations to overhaul the NSA surveillance program in the wake of Edward Snowden’s public revelations. The Wall Street Journal was given a preview of the More...
NSA collects 5 billion cell phone locations daily, tracking movements and relationships
The National Security Agency is gathering approximately 5 billion records a day on the location of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, More...
NSA collecting data from address books and IM accounts worldwide
The National Security Agency is collecting information from email address books and instant messaging accounts around the world, including many belonging to Americans, the Washington Post reports. What is the NSA More...
NSA data center in Utah may be up and running
No expects a ribbon cutting ceremony or a parade across the sand in Utah, but conflicting reports from the NSA have led to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune that the Utah data center may already be up and running. photo More...
Senate bill moves ahead to end NSA monitoring practices and make FISA decisions more public
The National Security Agency monitoring United States citizens and allies now face a bipartisan group of senators who are in unveiling legislation that would end the collection of millions of Americans’ phone More...
The New Yorker cover features NSA surveillance jab with Uncle Sam becoming a ‘peeping Tom’
The latest cover of the New Yorker took a jab at the Obama administration over its recent scandals, especially the NSA surveillance program. The illustrated cover shows a giant Uncle Sam looking into a woman’s More...
NSA spying on Americans detailed in 2008: listening in on journalists, soldiers and ‘phone sex’
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush, President Obama and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on. An ABC report from 2008 detailed how More...
Michigan Rep Mike Rogers says Glenn Greenwald ‘doesn’t have a clue’ and NSA leaker is ‘dangerous’
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, took a shot at Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, More...
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Dem: Congress knows ‘almost nothing’ about Prism, NSA, and spy program
Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison discussed the NSA program, responding to comments made by the President during his appearance Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Obama has pointed out that Congress More...
NY Times columnist Paul Krugman says NSA program pushes US to kind of ‘authoritarian’ state
NY Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman discussed the NSA surveillance Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Photo/donkeyhotey.wordpress.com “There was a really good article written More...
NSA has two massive facilities, worth over $2.5 billion, millions of square feet, expanding to house data
The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley or the $860 More...
NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden, comes forward saying ‘I have done nothing wrong’
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz More...
NSA not just monitoring Verizon, over 3 billion US calls monitored daily on all US citizens
Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a three-month period opens a new window on an operation that has More...
Ron Paul condemns reports of NSA secret seizure of Verizon phone records
Former Texas Congressman and Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul was sharply critical of reports of the National Security Agency’s seizure and surveillance of Americans’ Verizon phone records in a statement More...
Rand Paul responds to the NSA’s seizure of Verizon records, announces he will introduce Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013
In response to the overreach of the National Security Agency’s seizure and surveillance of Americans’ Verizon phone records, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said, “The National Security Agency’s More...
