AT&T; Whistle blower Mark Klein Speaks Out Against Retroactive Immunity for telecom companies.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called on the Bush administration yesterday to delay the planned launch of a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity initiative so that Congress could have time to evaluate it.
Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government's domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications compani …
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee scolded Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week for failing to notify him of plans to expand the use of intelligence satellites for homeland security applications.
Although Congress is out of session, the news that classified intelligence satellites may increasingly be used for domestic surveillance applications did not go unnoticed by congressional overseers.
A federal judge yesterday rejected New York City's efforts to prevent the release of nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department's covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists before the Republican Natio …
A letter last year from the nation's top intelligence official raises new questions about the credibility of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's account of a ferocious dispute within the administration over domestic surveillance activities authorized by President Bush.
Those who make the "nothing to hide" argument fail to understand the chilling effect that surveillance has on public discourse, the fact that small bits of private data (which an individual may not object to being uncovered) when put together form a larger and more intimate profi …
The Department of Defense TALON database of threat information that compiled information on U.S. persons involved in domestic protests was implemented in compliance with U.S. law, a review by the DoD Inspector General concluded.
CIA director Michael Hayden announced today that the Agency is declassifying the full 693-page file amassed on CIA''s illegal activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in 1973--the so-called "family jewels." Only a few dozen heavily-censored pages of this file h …
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in …
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in …
The Justice Department said yesterday that it will not retract a sworn statement in 2006 by Attorney General Alberto R Gonzales that the Terrorist Surveillance Program had aroused no controversy inside the Bush administration, despite congressional testimony Tuesday that senior d …
A new operational HQ for the U.K.'s National DNA Database (NDNAD) custodian unit has been officially opened by Joan Ryan MP, Under Secretary of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration.
(T)he Bush administration is asking the European Union to lift its objections to the sharing of airline passenger information with American intelligence agencies, said the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T; technician, sits quietly at the center of a high-profile legal storm hitting the nation's largest telecommunications companies for allegedly helping the government spy on American citizens' phone and internet communications without court approval.
US intelligence recently undertook a "significant" covert action without notifying Congress, as required by law, the House Intelligence Committee disclosed in a new report on the 2008 intelligence authorization bill.
President Bush's spy chief is pushing to expand the government's surveillance authority at the same time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic eavesdropping powers.
Domestic surveillance of citizens and residents within the United States has and will always remain an uncomfortable and highly controversial practice. Outsourcing domestic surveillance and intelligence gathering to paid contractors based in the U.K.
One of the scariest episodes of Democracy Now - the obviously unrepresentative government has allowed itself to define what situations calls for active duty military as well as national guard deployed on US soil, turning their weapons against US citizens
The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency's highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits. Plaintiffs and judges' clerks cannot see its secret filings.
A Pentagon domestic intelligence agency overpaid and might have broken the law in awarding a $100 million contract to lease office space, federal investigators say.
The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every website you visit.