
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 development that could give President Barack Obama a chance ...

Photo: Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% ...

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” — Peter Thiel, April 13 2009 The Gay Billionaire Pothead Behind the Senate’s New Right-Wing Star Gawker, September 30, 2013 Where does a man like ...

Lending some credence to conspiracy theories that have swirled for years concerning the 1961 death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a Zambia plane crash, a commission of international jurists recommended on Monday ...

Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. Photo: Rep. Alan Grayson unsuccessfully tried to require police to obtain a ...

Everybody’s A Target In The American Surveillance State NJ TODAY, March 28, 2012 –“Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”—A senior intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data Center In the small town ...

Bay City News | December 21, 2010 A federal judge in San Francisco today awarded more than $2.5 million in damages and legal fees to compensate two lawyers for an Islamic charity for illegal wiretapping ...

By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post | November 29, 2010 Prosecutors failed Monday to persuade a federal judge in Baltimore to order the disclosure of the names of two expert witnesses who might be called in ...

“… ‘There’s smart secrecy and stupid secrecy, and this whole episode sounds like stupid secrecy,’ said Gabriel Schoenfeld of the Hudson Institute, a conservative scholar whose book Necessary Secrets defends protecting classified information. …” SCOTT ...

“A major federal investigation has found that dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downloaded child pornography on private or government computers. The Pentagon on Friday ...

” … It is one thing to protect information that might put Americans in danger or undermine national security; it is another to bring cases against whistle-blowers and others who divulge information to spur debate ...

Dozens implicated, some with ties to the National Security Agency with top-level security clearance By ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press Click to download 96 Page IG Report The Defense Department says an investigation has identified dozens ...

Re “the indictment of Thomas A. Drake, a former NSA official accused of leaking classified information to a newspaper reporter. Drake was arraigned on Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and pleaded not guilty. ...