A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...

The following month, the U.S. charged him with espionage while he was abroad and the Russian government didn't extradite him back Thirteen years later, he and his family live in Russia, from where he ...

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States" on Capitol Hill in ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Testifies before Congress. Win McNamee/Getty NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander testified on Tuesday that the agency’s surveillance program has stopped roughly ...

“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” That’s what Secretary of State Henry Stimson said to explain why he shut down the government’s cryptanalysis operations in 1929. Edward Snowden, who leaked ...

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Trump's NSA Pick Endorses Post-9/11 Surveillance Powers, Stays Vague on Warrants By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Army Lieutenant General ‌Joshua Rudd, President Donald Trump's ...

WASHINGTON — The Army general tapped to lead the U.S. National Security Agency assured lawmakers Thursday that he will follow the Constitution and the law when it comes to using the NSA's powerful ...

At midnight Friday, one of the most sweeping digital surveillance authorities in American history will expire — and almost nothing will change for the hundreds of millions of Americans whose ...