Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.
Mahmood N. Al-Yousif | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Divine intervention couldn't have come at a more fortuitous time for the government to start to re-impose another heinous State Security Law, the very...
LA Times | Josh Meyer | Posted 02.24.2008 | Politics
A day after warning that potentially critical terrorism intelligence was being lost because Congress had not finished work on a controversial espionag...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile _ possibly on Wednesday night _ ...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The power of the president's fear-mongering derives from the same media ecosystem that empowers all terrorists, whether at Ground Zero or Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University.
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics
A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency's wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers def...
Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
When officials must establish before a court that they have reason to intercept communications, we get better intelligence than through indiscriminate collection and fishing expeditions.
Marc Rotenberg | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
We are being asked to become a weak nation that accepts surveillance without accountability that cannot defend both security and freedom.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.08.2007 | Business
Our surveillance state is not unlike a boa constrictor in the way it operates. Before swallowing its prey whole, it slowly squeezes the life out of its victims.
Ari Melber | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Under Democratic control, Congress is doing even worse on illegal spying than the Republicans.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Mr. Ashcroft seems to assume that patriotic Americans should give their government the benefit of the doubt and act compliantly.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Obama and Clinton must show Democratic voters that they can effectively confront Harry Reid, reject Bush's veto threats and pass a strong intelligence bill with accountability and warrants -- not amnesty.
Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 10.21.2007 | Home
This city, famous for being America's playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Paul Kane | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constituti...
Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 09.22.2007 | Home
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining da...
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MyFox New York | Kathy Carvajal | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home