NSA agent charged with beating his 3-year-old son to death only months after adopted him from South Korea Brian Patrick O'Callaghan, 36, of Maryland, was c
The steady drip of leaks concerning illicit NSA surveillance sweeps has incited a host of idiotic calumnies directed at Snowden and Greenwald, strategicall
February 1, 2014 Download audio file At the beginning of the US war on terror, and even to this day, the US literally kidnapped "suspects" and took them
"... Nearly all the bills that have been proposed or floated appear to come from a group calling itself 'Nullify NSA.' ... The site provides 'model legi
"... The biggest lie of the NSS is that we Americans are faced with national security threats that make a totalitarian society essential for our own prote
"... the U.S. is aligning with known terrorists and drug dealers in Colombia in the name of fighting terrorism and drugs. ..." Why Are We Only Learning of
January 10, 2014 Nearly 50 years ago, Gordon Moore suggested that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to doubl
You've probably heard politicians or pundits say that “metadata doesn't matter.” They argue that police and intelligence agencies shouldn't need probab
December 24, 2013 We've pointed out that one of the big surprises in the White House's task force proposals on NSA reform, was that the task force was p
Photo: Former DCI R. James Woolsey A very tentative suggestion of amnesty on a CBS program leads to a threat. December 19, 2013 After all the virtual pub
Photo: Home affairs select committee chairman Keith Vaz has asked the MI5 chief to justify comments about the Guardian's coverage of Edward Snowden's leak
" ... The legislation would make clear in no uncertain terms that communication records like phone, email, and internet data can be collected without even
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "NSA's Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims": "Time and again
November 8, 2013 This article originally appeared in the Daily Kos. Since June, the mainstream media has been reporting National Security Agency (NSA) whi
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to depart in the coming months, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a develo
Almost no one noticed when the book was quietly released this summer. It has perhaps the most benumbing title in publishing history. Yet inside this volu
Photo: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is the author of the Patriot Act — and an opponent of how it has been used to justify broad domestic spying powers. (Jim Wa