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The Obama administration went out of its way to get restrictions on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs removed in 2011, allowing it to search Americans’ communications without a warrant, according to a new report. The restrictions had been imposed ...

Microsoft and Google don’t want anything more to do with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Internet communications. The two tech giants have uncharacteristically banded together to sue the Department of Justice for the right to release more of what ...

If you think you’re being watched from the skies, you might be right. Law enforcement is increasingly using drones or unmanned aerial vehicles to spy on average people. In a letter to US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the FBI admitted ...

Cass Sunstein was one of President Obama’s most controversial czars. He has now been appointed into a far more influential and powerful position. Sunstein will now serve on the panel to review the NSA programs. While still earning a paycheck ...

The partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald — who has written a series of scathing articles about the NSA – was questioned and held at London’s Heathrow airport for nine hours under the United Kingdom’s Terrorism Act. Greenwald, who writes for ...

When he was a U.S. senator, Barack Obama supported placing tight restrictions on the surveillance operations intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA) can conduct against average Americans. The proposals Senator Obama backed are similar to ones President Obama ...

President Obama says the federal government is not spying on Americans, but one of his former aides disagrees. Obama appeared on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Tuesday and defended the National Security Agency’s surveillance program. “There is no ...

One of the most shocking secrets revealed by Edward Snowden has been overlooked by the US media. Documents exposed by the British newspaper The Guardian show that the National Security Agency could be paying foreign intelligence agencies to spy on ...

Advocates of “civil liberties” are concerned because Reuters reported that the Obama administration is planning to give U.S. spy agencies full access to financial data about U.S. bank accounts. The problem with these concerns is that the spy agencies already ...