Surveillance

America has a tradition of spying on its own, something George Orwell predicted long ago in his novel 1984.

In which the head of the NSA is found to have more in common with the Borg than with Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

More than jihadism or Iran, China is now Washington's obsession in Africa and beyond.

Colonel Manners (ret.) answers letters from Americans puzzled by the etiquette, manners and language of the arcane national security world of Washington.

What happened next says a lot about what happens when the governmentu2019s privacy protections collide with the day-to-day realities of global surveillance.

Are we living in a time of inverted totalitarianism?

Thereu2019s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists.

The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, spoke this morning at the United Nations and delivered a powerful indictment of spying by the NSA on behalf of the United States.

Security lobbyists, the media and the government itself continue to stoke public fears of another attack on ‘the homeland.’

State lawmakers across the U.S. are introducing legislation that would restrict the use of unmanned drones.