Browsing: National Security Agency

US lawmakers were poised Friday to seize a chance to take the initiative in reforming America’s vast digital surveillance network, after President Barack Obama opened the door to them. Under pressure after fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden…

In a speech earlier this morning from the Justice Department, President Obama discussed government surveillance in a speech that was as much a defense of the NSA’s activities as it was a response to growing discomfort with the agency’s surveillance…

President Barack Obama will Friday announce plans to stop the National Security Agency hoarding hundreds of millions of telephone call records, among reforms to US surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. A senior US official, speaking ahead…

BERLIN, Germany — On Facebook, lying is an unfriending offense. Geopolitics may be slightly more complicated. So after the news that the United States is backtracking on a promise not to spy on its ally by the National Security Agency (NSA), will…

A US district judge in New York ruled on Friday that controversial telephone surveillance by the National Security Agency was lawful and a vital component of the war on Al-Qaeda. The ruling from Judge William Pauley of the southern district court in…