Tag: NSA

Magazine - Washington Briefing

New bill would end phone records surveillance program

Grant Gross · January 31, 2020 4:00 am

A man walks past a Huawei retail shop in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong province, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a U.S. law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment.

Beltway Confidential

How the US should respond to Britain’s Huawei 5G decision

Tom Rogan · January 28, 2020 4:30 pm

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calf., is calling on other lawmakers to release a transcript of their meeting with the founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired a former British intelligence officer to write the so-called "Trump dossier." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Schiff accuses intelligence community of withholding documents from Congress ‘on the issue of Ukraine’

Carlin Becker · January 19, 2020 5:44 pm

Navy Vice Adm. Michael Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to become an admiral and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Services/Commander, United States Cyber Command.

Durham interviewing former NSA leader who alerted court of other FISA abuses

Jerry Dunleavy · December 26, 2019 9:45 pm

US cyber officials consider information warfare to counter Russian meddling in 2020

Madison Dibble · December 26, 2019 7:40 pm

FILE - A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. governmentâs efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowdenâs sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

Judge rules Snowden book profits go to US government

Jerry Dunleavy · December 18, 2019 1:43 am

Beltway Confidential

Salute the counterterrorism finishers, but remember the finders and fixers

Tom Rogan · October 28, 2019 8:17 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why it’s stupid to bring cellphones into a congressional SCIF

Tom Rogan · October 23, 2019 6:47 pm

A UK police van on a closed road.

‘He doesn’t work for us:’ NSA disavows husband of American spy in UK traffic death

Susan Katz Keating · October 11, 2019 3:23 pm

FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Beltway Confidential

Does Edward Snowden know fact from fiction?

Madeline Fry Schultz · September 20, 2019 5:20 pm

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., bottom left, speaks with Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the committee's ranking member, before a markup hearing on a series of bills, including some to reduce gun violence, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, in Washington.

‘We’ll see who’s right’: Republicans slam Democrats over Carter Page ‘FISA abuse’

Jerry Dunleavy · September 20, 2019 2:33 pm

Magazine - Washington Briefing

NSA vs. civil liberties groups on phone surveillance

Grant Gross · September 6, 2019 3:00 am