Tag: NSA

Tom Cotton: ‘I disagree with Rand’ on NSA

David M. Drucker · May 20, 2015 7:18 pm

In this May 16, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Paul vowed on Monday to "everything possible" to block renewal of the terrorism-era Patriot Act, but the Republican presidential hopeful conceded it may not be enough. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Paul launches Senate filibuster of NSA bill

Susan Ferrechio · May 20, 2015 6:31 pm

Rand Paul Begins Filibuster of PATRIOT Act Renewal

Michael Warren · May 20, 2015 4:43 pm

"I believe our national security will be put at greater risk if the provisions are allowed to expire," John Cornyn wrote in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News. (AP Photo)Â

Sen. John Cornyn: U.S. security at ‘greater risk’ without Patriot Act provisions

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2015 3:43 pm

Although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., opposes theÂ USA Freedom Act, heÂ announced Tuesday he will allow a vote on the measure. (Getty Image)

McConnell bends on NSA

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2015 8:08 pm

Mitch McConnell is planning to huddle with GOP rank-and-file and could make a decision on surveillance reform today, GOP aides told theÂ Washington Examiner. (AP Photo)Â

McConnell under increasing pressure to back NSA reform bill

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2015 4:11 pm

"The Senate will finish its work on trade this week, and ... remain in session as long as it takes to do so." (Getty)

Legislative scramble as Congress heads to recess

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2015 9:00 am

Mitch McConnell meets with reporters following a Republican policy luncheon, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

McConnell: ‘Nobody at NSA’ ‘listening to your phone calls’

Barbara Boland · May 17, 2015 4:49 pm

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich.,Â saidÂ "It's true that the bill ends the phone dragnet as we currently know it -- by having the phone companies themselves hold, search, and analyze certain data at the request of the government, which is worse in many ways given the broader set of data the companies hold -- but H.R. 2048 actually expands the statutory basis for the large-scale collection of most data."

Beltway Confidential

Why did so many libertarians vote against a bill that’s supposed to rein in the NSA?

W. James Antle III · May 14, 2015 6:54 pm

"You know you've drafted a strong bill when it unites both national security hawks and civil libertarians," said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. (AP)

House passes bill curbing NSA bulk data collection

Susan Ferrechio · May 13, 2015 10:06 pm

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Top senator says Obama data mining a joke program, worthless, ‘inept’

Paul Bedard · May 13, 2015 3:27 pm

Former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks during a video conference at an award ceremony for the Carl von Ossietzky journalism prize on December 14, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)

NSA spying undermines global efforts to fight terrorism

Charles Hoskinson · May 12, 2015 9:00 am