WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance programs has foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide in a forceful ...

An NSA program that collects electronic information on U.S. residents who are communicating with foreign targets is a valuable and effective tool for fighting terrorism, but also goes "right up to the ...

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 ...

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections ...

The fallout from the recent disclosures of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs continues to spread. On Monday, the European Parliament Civil Liberties Commission voted ...

Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It turns out, at ...

In light of characteristically nebulous warnings from the State Department about the extended closure of American embassies (map at right) and warnings about foreign travel, everyone with an opinion ...

The defenses of the National Security Agency's program to collect and store records of every phone call and every email have not been very impressive. The NSA defenders point to a secret court that ...

President Obama wants America to know that the PRISM scandal, which revealed the NSA and FBI have unfettered access to the data centers of companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, actually only ...

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. REUTERS/NSA/Handout via Reuters (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) THIS IMAGE HAS ...