Did NSA Illegally Wiretap A Scholar? Congressional Panel Wants To Know
WASHINGTON -- A Congressional oversight panel plans to ask the National Security Agency to start an investigation into new evidence that the agency il...
WASHINGTON -- A Congressional oversight panel plans to ask the National Security Agency to start an investigation into new evidence that the agency il...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
It's an exciting time the United States, but there are even bigger things happening to the north. No, it's not picking a national security team. Canada is on the verge of a coup.
Think Progress | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to d...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
Illegal conduct implemented at Gitmo has now metastasized to the shores of the United States. Where is the outrage?
AFP | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The White House spokesperson Dana Perino said today that she couldn't speak to the accuracy of an ABC news report that came out last week citing misco...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
Shayana Kadidal | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Finally, thanks to Brian Ross and surveillance expert Jim Bamford we have a report from the inside on what the NSA was eavesdropping on. And the facts are almost as bad as we expected.
ABC | BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropp...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on na...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
The only thing in all the world I love more than flowcharts, which are awesome, are Venn diagrams. I especially adore interactive Venn diagrams and I...
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | 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.
Matthew Yglesias | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Scott wonders if people are making too big a deal out of FISA: While I understand there are dozens of real policy difference to disagree with Pre...
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
Despite what the LA Times said on Saturday, spying actually started a few weeks after Bush took office -- at a time when the administration was ignoring the terrorist threat.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living
I guess it makes more sense to celebrate our freedom from government tyranny and interference before we give them the okay to monitor our private conversations. No one wants to be a party pooper.
Leslie Harris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The new FISA bill makes U.S. citizens' most private conversations when communicating with people abroad rendered more vulnerable to eavesdropping without adequate judicial oversight. Some in Congress see this as a compromise.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Kevin Powell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
I cannot sit idly by and watch Congress cut backroom deals on warrantless wiretapping. I urge all Congresspeople of conscious to reject any bill that would grant big telephone companies immunity.
The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they would not stand in the way of a compromise overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The New York Time's Eric Lichtblau is all a flutter today because, as his headline reads, "In Wiretap's Stead, Uncertainty." Harrowing, terrifying, "...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 _ ...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
What happened? The administration did everything right. The invocation of "countless American lives" hanging in the balance, the specter of terrorists...
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney prodded Congress on Wednesday to extend and broaden an expiring surveillance law, saying "fighting the w...
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN | Posted 01.07.2009 | Home