Conservative Think Tank Questions Legality Of Anti-NSA Legislation

The Heritage Foundation calls anti-NSA legislation proposed in 16 states an “unconstitutional fix.”

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
Jim DeMint Heritage Foundation

A new report from the Heritage Foundation suggests that the 16 states that have proposed legislation limiting the power of the National Security Agency in a post-Snowden America, are proposing an “unconstitutional fix” to the federal government’s Orwellian antics. The report by Andrew Kloster, legal fellow with the conservative think tank’s Edwin

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Obama Ponders Limiting NSA Access To Phone Records

The White House says Obama is still collecting information before making final decisions.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is expected to rein in spying on foreign leaders and is considering restricting National Security Agency access to Americans' phone records, according to people familiar with a White House review of the government's surveillance programs. Obama could unveil his highly anticipated decisions as early as

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‘Burglars’ Revealed: Sixties Activists Who Stole FBI COINTELPRO Files

The stolen document that would have the “biggest impact on reining in the F.B.I.’s domestic spying activities was an internal routing slip, dated 1968, bearing a mysterious word: Cointelpro.”

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

In an exclusive with the New York Times on Tuesday, published to coincide with a new book about a fateful plan more than four decades ago that helped bring down J. Edgar Hoover and expose the dark nature of the FBI's obsessive targeting of the dissident and anti-war left, the original burglars who broke into a bureau field office in 1971 have now

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CIA Creating Vast Database of American’s Personal Financial Records: Report

‘Collected data goes beyond basic financial records and uses Social Security numbers to tie financial activity to a specific person

John Queally
By John Queally

Claiming the same authority as the NSA does for its bulk collection of domestic internet and phone data, the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency is compiling a "vast database" that includes the personal financial records of Americans, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Central Intelligence Agency is amassing a huge database of

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Ever Purchase a Book on Lying? You Might Be on a Govt Watch List

Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, and others, reports McClatchy

John Queally
By John Queally
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If you've ever trained to be a better liar—or more specifically inquired about how to lie well enough to beat a polygraph test—numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the IRS, or the FBI, may just have their eye on you. "Though nowhere near as massive as the NSA programs, the polygraph inquiry is

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Obama Administration Unlawfully Reading Thousands of U.S. Emails Each Year

Forget about gathering user “metadata”, the government has been found downloading actual emails and recording actual phone calls.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
Thousands of American's emails were downloaded by the NSA since before 2011. (Photo/Pascual López via Flickr)

The saga of the National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance on Americans continued this week after declassified documents showed that Washington has been monitoring and unlawfully reading thousands of emails each year, going a step farther than the collection of “metadata” revealed earlier this year by former NSA contractor Edward

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