A bill intended to reassert individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights when it comes to aerial surveillance operations was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday. The Protecting Individuals From Mass Aerial Surveillance Act, introduced by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., would require federal agencies to obtain a warrant before conducting aerial surveillance operations. Any […]

Three D.C. Appellate Court judges today vigorously questioned both sides during oral arguments over a lower court’s injunction against the NSA’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records. Legally, the central issue appears to be whether a 1979 Supreme Court ruling allowing a short warrantless peek of one suspect’s phone records provided the precedent the […]

Defense analysts are told to cast aside standard word definitions. So "collecting" is NOT "gathering!"

From 2009 to 2012, the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase, describing President Bush's authorization of the torture program, secret.