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NSA warrantless surveillance controversy

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Here’s a primer on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

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US District Court Judge Richard Leon has ruled that the NSA’s mass collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is likely unconstitutional. And that directly contradicts a ruling by the special court that Congress established to oversee surveillance.

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So what if the government tracks my phone calls?

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Senator Ron Wyden

The Snowden leaks gave a senator the chance to openly question the NSA

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Obama proposes series of changes to rules governing NSA surveillance

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New Documents Show Sweeping NSA Surveillance of Americans

Obama Pledges Greater Surveillance Transparency

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President Obama tried to calm Americans’ fears about surveillance on Friday. Obama told reporters that government surveillance programs are still needed to protect Americans. But he also unveiled new measures to make the programs more transparent.

Intelligence officials defend surveillance programs as a necessity in war on terror

Conflict & Justice

At least two terrorist attacks, including a plot against the New York Stock Exchange, were thwarted thanks to government surveillance programs, U.S. officials said at an Intelligence Committee meeting Tuesday. The government has been trying to reframe the conversation around the programs after their existence was made public by Edward Snowden.

NSA accused of tracking wide range of phone conversations, Internet connections

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The NSA has been publicly accused of tracking data on Americans. The agency requested — and was granted — a court order requiring a unit of Verizon to turn over all of its records on a daily basis. Plus, the NSA and the FBI are accused of operating a top-secret program to track user data from the servers of nine leading Internet companies.

Do The Positions of Obama’s FBI Nominee Deserve More Scrutiny?

The legality of waterboarding, the role of state-sponsored surveillance and the importance of whistle-blowers–those were just a few of the major questions thrown at James Comey before a Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey is President Obama’s pick to lead the FBI. From 2003 to 2005, Comey served as deputy attorney general under President Bush, and while […]

NSA Leaker Thomas Drake on Snowden’s Case

What might have happened if the former defense contractor Ed Snowden had decided to stay here and had taken up his complaint within the official chain of command? It’s what former National Security Agency (NSA) official Thomas Drake,  one of Snowden’s idols, did. After September 11th, Drake became uncomfortable about the agency’s top-secret counterterrorism programs.   He […]