Tag: NSA

Alexis Ohanian, the cofounder of Reddit, called for a "proper congressional investigation" into the collection of bulk phone data by the National Security Agency. (Getty Images File)

Reddit co-founder: NSA supporters offering ‘false choice’

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said the presidential review of the National Security Agency's telephone surveillance program validated it, by stating that it is "vital" to U.S. national security. (Getty images File)

Mike Rogers: Obama’s NSA reforms bring ‘uncertainty’

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, in a ruling last month against the NSA, noted that "the government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature." (AP File)

NSA’s mass surveillance proves pointless

Steve Chapman · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama tells Germans that US won’t spy on Angela Merkel

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is joining forces with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on a bill that allows people in jeopardy of losing their individual health plans to keep them. (AP Photo)

National Security

Dianne Feinstein praises Obama for backing NSA surveillance

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates signs copies of his new book: "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War," during a book signing at the Pentagon, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Robert Gates: Obama struck right ‘balance’ on NSA reforms

Meghashyam Mali · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

NSA leaker Edward Snowden looks down during a press conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on July 12. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)

Beltway Confidential

House Intelligence chairman suggests Russian spies helped Edward Snowden hack NSA

Joel Gehrke · January 18, 2014 5:00 am

A sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Tech industry: Obama’s NSA reforms ‘insufficient’

Associated Press · January 18, 2014 5:00 am

Rubio: ‘Some’ of Obama’s NSA Changes ‘Go Too Far’

Daniel Halper · January 17, 2014 10:36 pm

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Obama tightens reins on surveillance programs

Julie Pace · January 17, 2014 9:54 pm

National Security

Intel chairs ask Obama to send bill on NSA changes

Washington Examiner · January 17, 2014 9:49 pm

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Questions and answers about Obama’s new NSA rules

Connie Cass · January 17, 2014 8:20 pm