WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance programs has foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide in a forceful ...

The surveillance program lapses April 19 unless renewed by Congress. The Trump administration is asking for a clean, 18-month ...

An NSA program that collects electronic information on U.S. residents who are communicating with foreign targets is a valuable and effective tool for fighting terrorism, but also goes "right up to the ...

A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...

This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2013, included here for context and accuracy.

Government surveillance at a large scale functionally suppresses First Amendment-protected speech, association and inquiry ...

The fallout from the recent disclosures of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs continues to spread. On Monday, the European Parliament Civil Liberties Commission voted ...

Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and “have no reason” to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.

The defenses of the National Security Agency's program to collect and store records of every phone call and every email have not been very impressive. The NSA defenders point to a secret court that ...

After 12-and-a-half years, President Obama will ask Congress to end the collection of metadata on Americans' phone calls. But he runs the NSA; why not just shut it off? For several reasons: First, to ...

This was originally posted at The Guardian. After yet another avalanche of documents showing how the NSA has spied on our communications for years, Americans should be asking, how did we get here? The ...