Surveillance

Michael Ratner: President Obama's assertion that our nation was formed as a result of a heroic history of surveillance is a misleading scare tactic.

An independent bipartisan agency within the Executive Branch has issued a landmark 238-page report that concludes the bulk metadata telephony program conducted by the National Security Agency has provided …

NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discuss the implications of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's assessment, considering report commissioned by Congress.

Six states have introduced bills that would impede NSA operations within their boundaries.

The President acknowledged the privacy concerns of people in other countries who are the subject of NSA surveillance and suggested he will consider curtailing wholesale international data collection.

If the speech was designed to quell fears, it hasn't entirely worked.

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.