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...government also would take care to "minimize" or delete communications from innocent Americans caught in the National Security Agency's electronic dragnet.This arrangement was a significant improvement over the warrantless wiretapping engaged...
...plane crash on August 9, 2010.More recently, Welch led the prosecution of Thomas Drake, a former senior National Security Agency official who faced 35 years in prison for disclosing government waste and mismanagement for a reporter. The...
...overdue institutional changes. It's rare to find a leader who has the trust of Republicans, Democrats and national security agencies. That should allow him to lead the charge on reforming the procurement system. Then he and the president can...
...the officials as whistleblowers, not criminals.Welch led the prosecution of Thomas Drake, a former senior National Security Agency official who faced 35 years in prison for disclosing government waste and mismanagement for a reporter. The...
...Hanssen or Kim Philby, infamous Cold War turncoats.Instead, there's Thomas Drake, a career official of the National Security Agency, who faced 35 years in prison for telling a Baltimore Sun reporter about what The New York Times called "a...
...essentially forever.These are the programs we know about. Secret government surveillance programs, like the National Security Agency's illegal warrantless wiretapping program, rely on secret re-interpretations of the law to justify ignoring...
...to established law, as we first learned in 2005.That's when it became known that Bush was authorizing the National Security Agency to break the law that required warrants for the monitoring of the phone calls and emails of individuals and organizations...
...special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He's badgered the White House for a full explanation of the National Security Agency's antiterror spying - even telling Bush personally that "the president doesn't have a blank check" on domestic...
...homeland on the basis of unscrutinized documentation. The INS promptly lost track of the newcomers. The CIA and National Security Agency created the world's most sophisticated eavesdropping network but blithely gathered more information than could...
...institutions, Arab-Americans in cities around the country are answering the call put out by the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency for translators who speak Farsi and Arabic. The FBI has fielded more than 15,000 applications for 200 translator...