"There was nobody in NSA who really had a full understanding of how the program was operating at the time." That's an intelligence official's one-line summary of thousands of documents released by 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 ...

A presidential task force wants an overhaul of the National Security Agency's data surveillance programs, a new report released Wednesday shows. The White House report by a panel of intelligence ...

On June 11, 2013, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ phone records. The complaint argues that the dragnet violates the ...

Now that the NSA's spying program on, among others, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is causing foreign relations migraines for the U.S., officials say that President Obama didn't even know about it.

President Barack Obama hosted a group of high-profile technology executives at the White House on Tuesday as he grapples with growing unrest over the National Security Agency’s massive domestic ...

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: A woman uses her phone while walking past a Verizon Store on June 6, 2013 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. News leaked yesterday, June 5, that the U.S. government had ...

NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. spying program that systematically collects millions of Americans' phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress ...

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 ...

In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost associate might one day land her in a ...