Tag: Surveillance

Police advance on demonstrators on August 17. the crowd was protesting the killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. (Getty images/Scott Olson)

Cameras and more cameras

Mona Charen · August 18, 2014 7:57 pm

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, shakes hands with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Monday Aug. 18, 2014, where Assange confirmed he "will be leaving the embassy soon". The Australian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted over allegations of sex crimes. (AP Photo / John Stillwell, POOL)

National Security

Assange talks of leaving embassy, sowing confusion

Raphael Satter · August 18, 2014 7:16 pm

In this July 8, 2013 file picture the BND monitoring base in Bad Aibling, near Munich, Germany is photographed. German weekly Der Spiegel reports that the country's foreign intelligence agency , BND, eavesdropped on calls made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton. Der Spiegel reported Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 that the agency, known by its acronym BND, tapped a satellite phone conversation Kerry made in 2013. The magazine says the agency also recorded a conversation between Clinton and former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan a year earlier. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File )

National Security

Report: German intel spied on Kerry, Clinton

Frank Jordans · August 16, 2014 1:40 pm

In Georgia, a SWAT team broke into a house searching for drugs and threw a flash-bang grenade inside a child's crib. The excessive force was disgusting to begin with. Even worse is the fact that the police had the wrong house and there were no drugs. (iStock Photo)

Nanny-state mindset leads to police brutality

Scott Rasmussen · August 1, 2014 3:30 pm

FILE - This March 11, 2014 file photo shows CIA Director John O. Brennan speaking in Washington. The CIA's insistence that it did not spy on its Senate overseers collapsed July 31 with the release of a stark report by the agency's internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist behavior by CIA officers. Those internal conclusions prompted Brennan to abandon months of defiance and defense of the agency and apologize to Senate intelligence committee leaders. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

CIA director reverses himself on Senate spying

Ken Dilanian · August 1, 2014 7:38 am

Twitter: Govt. requests for user data increased

Twitter: Govt. requests for user data increased

Barbara Ortutay · July 31, 2014 8:03 pm

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan admitted Thursday that agency officials acted improperly when they hacked Senate computers, according to the Associated Press. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

If it’s not OK to spy on senators, is it still OK to spy on citizens?

Ashe Schow · July 31, 2014 5:08 pm

UN: Nations hide rise in private digital snooping

UN: Nations hide rise in private digital snooping

John Heilprin · July 16, 2014 1:12 pm

Merkel doubtful US will stop spying on Germany

Merkel doubtful US will stop spying on Germany

Washington Examiner · July 12, 2014 2:16 pm

Advisor: Obama, NSA use Internet to silence critics like Tea Party

Washington Secrets

Advisor: Obama, NSA use Internet to silence critics like Tea Party

Paul Bedard · July 11, 2014 5:44 pm

FILE - In this March 21, 2014, file photo, British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses members of the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels. Cameron pledged Thursday, July 10, 2014, to rush through fresh measures to give police and spy agencies the power to scoop up mobile phone and Internet data. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

National Security

UK govt seeks data retention law after EU verdict

Danica Kirka · July 10, 2014 2:05 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Monday, July 7, 2014.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

National Security

German leader: US spy reports serious if true

Gillian Wong · July 7, 2014 7:48 pm