Questions and answers about newly approved USA Freedom Act
President Barack Obama has signed into law the USA Freedom Act, which extends three expiring surveillance provisions of the 9/11-era USA Patriot Act.
Obama urges Senate to renew phone-records program
President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government’s ability to search Americans’ phone records.
Appeals court: NSA phone record collection is illegal
The unprecedented and unwarranted bulk collection of the entire U.S. population’s phone records by the government is illegal because it wasn’t authorized by Congress, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
Senate blocks NSA phone records measure
The Senate on Tuesday blocked a bill to end bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency.
U.S. looks at ways to prevent spying on NSA spying
As the Obama administration considers ending the storage of millions of phone records by the National Security Agency, the government is quietly funding research to prevent eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.
NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.
NSA head says spy programs thwarted terror attacks
WASHINGTON — Once-secret surveillance programs were crucial in enabling the U.S. government to thwart dozens of terrorist attacks, says the director of the National Security
No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a UK-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for intrusions on privacy.
Report: Gov’t wants Verizon phone records
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency currently is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order,