NSA

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas., had supported an unsuccessful amendment to FISA to address President Trump's concerns, as well as those of some Republican and Democratic lawmakers, about privacy protections for U.S. citizens. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Rep. Ted Poe calls on Trump to postpone signing FISA reauthorization until surveillance memo is released

Daniel Chaitin · January 19, 2018 7:55 pm

Government should not be able to search Americans' data without a warrant. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Close the NSA’s backdoor by reforming FISA

Cliff Maloney · January 17, 2018 6:07 pm

James Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017, testified during a March 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the NSA was "not wittingly" collecting "any type of data at all" on millions of Americans — which turned out to be very much untrue. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Lawmakers want James Clapper prosecuted for surveillance testimony before statute of limitations runs out

Steven Nelson · January 17, 2018 5:01 am

All at once, Nancy Pelosi managed to preserve NSA surveillance power, appear sympathetic to privacy concerns, and ding the president. It was a masterful and deceitful political performance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Nancy Pelosi saves the NSA surveillance program again

Philip Wegmann · January 11, 2018 6:35 pm

In a 256-164 vote, House lawmakers approved a six-year reauthorization of the Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows intelligence officials to spy on communications of noncitizens outside of the United States. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security

House votes to reauthorize FISA spying authority after floor fight over privacy

Susan Ferrechio · January 11, 2018 4:47 pm

The top candidates for Mike Rogers' position reportedly include Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, Army Cyber Command head Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, and Navy Vice Adm. Michael Gilday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

National Security

NSA director to leave agency in the spring: Report

Melissa Quinn · January 5, 2018 10:33 pm

Despite threatened crackdown, few leakers caught under Trump and Jeff Sessions

Steven Nelson · December 30, 2017 5:01 am

The gains Britain gets from the special relationship are vast. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

One key to the current US-UK ‘special relationship’: Supercomputers!

Tom Rogan · December 28, 2017 10:29 pm

"We'll supplement the pleadings. We hope to light a fire under Judge [Richard] Leon," said conservative legal activist Larry Klayman (pictured above), referring to the U.S. district judge assigned two lawsuits in which Klayman challenges Section 702 programs. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik,File)

Surveillance law lapse would trigger legal fireworks in 2018

Steven Nelson · December 17, 2017 5:01 am

The legal basis for a warrantless federal surveillance program is set to expire on New Year's Eve and, as a result, national security officials have urged Congress for a year-and-a-half extension. (iStock)

National Security

Government says warrantless surveillance can proceed into 2018 past law’s expiration: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · December 7, 2017 1:35 am

Former NSA employee pleads guilty to illegally taking classified information

Diana Stancy Correll · December 1, 2017 6:41 pm

Mick Mulvaney, who assumed command of the CFPB on Monday morning, has been broadly critical of the independent agency as a "rogue" organization. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CFPB’s ‘NSA-like’ surveillance in limbo with leadership tussle

Steven Nelson · November 29, 2017 5:01 am