Surveillance

Since the first disclosures based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Obama has offered his own defenses of the programs. But not all of the president's …

Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence (if he had told the truth).

Historian of US surveillance practices, Alfred McCoy, points out that what the NSA has set up, despite the blowback it's now causing, is irresistible to Washington.

Michael Ratner: By portraying NSA surveillance as “patriotic,” President Obama ignores the violations of Americans' constitutional rights.

The political psyops effort by Robert Gates disguised as a tell-all, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense at War,” proves that spies are inherently suspect people who must …

Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses two recent decisions on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's metadata collection program.

Washington has become the first state with a physical NSA location to introduce a Fourth Amendment protection act.

After a court struck down net neutrality provisions, an online protest follows a critical moment for internet freedom.

The hidden ball in the debate over the NSA's collection of phone and e-mail metadata is that the NSA actually prefers the metadata approach because it strips away privacy …

Peter Van Buren takes us through the labyrinth of NSA defenses, point by point, showing just what our favorite Constitution-shredders have to say and why it doesn't hold water.