National Security Agency

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  • Senate confirms Hayden as CIA chief

    Despite concerns over spying, Hayden gets 78-15 vote.
    By Tim Grieve May 26, 2006

  • First Justice, now the FCC: No NSA investigation

    The Federal Communications Commission says it can't investigate possible violations of the federal Communications Act.
    By Tim Grieve May 23, 2006

  • Don't punish Hayden for Bush's sins

    It's essential to rebuild a CIA devastated by partisan Bush hacks. Michael Hayden is qualified -- and may be the last chance.
    By Joe Conason May 19, 2006

  • Listening in on Hayden

    In language that might baffle even NSA analysts, the nominee for CIA chief signaled agency reform -- but also backed Bush's power grab.
    By Walter Shapiro May 19, 2006

  • A question for Michael Hayden

    Did the NSA kill a call-tracking system that was more useful and less intrusive than the one it's using now?
    By Tim Grieve May 18, 2006

  • AT&T can't silence whistle-blower

    A federal judge rules for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its suit against AT&T for cooperating with the NSA to spy on customers.
    By Kim Zetter May 18, 2006

  • Secrets or lies, and maybe both

    Bush authorizes Negroponte to free companies from record-keeping requirements in national security matters.
    By Tim Grieve May 17, 2006

  • Understatement of the Day

    A federal official tells ABC News that it used to be hard for the FBI to track reporters' telephone calls -- but that it isn't anymore.
    By Tim Grieve May 16, 2006

  • ABC report: Government is tracking reporters' calls

    Is it the NSA program or a leak investigation?
    By Tim Grieve May 15, 2006

  • Americans support NSA program? Not so fast

    Weekend polling shows majority opposition to -- and widespread concern about -- telephone database.
    By Tim Grieve May 15, 2006

  • The NSA is on the line -- all of them

    An intelligence expert predicts we'll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us.
    By Kim Zetter May 15, 2006

  • O say, ma, been laden forever!

    Working with your phone company, skilled NSA operatives are rounding up evil terrorists who speak Islamofascist jive.
    By Evan Ratliff May 12, 2006

  • Bush can spin, but USA Today makes it simple

    For all its faults, the newspaper's approach makes the impact of the NSA call-tracking program absolutely clear.
    By Tim Grieve May 11, 2006

  • Bush, confusing the issue, defends NSA program

    The president says that the NSA isn't listening in on domestic calls without a warrant. It isn't true, and it isn't the issue.
    By Tim Grieve May 11, 2006

  • Report: NSA attempting to collect data on all U.S. calls

    USA Today says the agency's program goes far beyond the warrantless spying previously disclosed.
    By Tim Grieve May 11, 2006

  • Above the law

    Bush claims the right to spy on everything -- including attorney-client conversations. When will Americans have the decency to be shocked?
    By Michael Ratner, with Sara Miles March 31, 2006

  • Big Brother, who cares?

    The feds may be listening, but nobody in our mad cellphone world is about to stop talking.
    By Garrison Keillor February 1, 2006

  • Strange Bedfellows v. Bush and Cheney

    A motley crew that includes Christopher Hitchens, Larry Diamond and Greenpeace is suing the NSA, claiming that Bush's wiretap program is inhibiting free speech.
    By Michael Scherer January 18, 2006

  • Big Brother is watching you (and blowing it)

    Bush's illegal wiretapping program isn't just reckless and immoral -- it will actually hurt the "war on terror."
    By Elizabeth de la Vega January 18, 2006

  • "America's Constitution is in grave danger"

    Al Gore blasts Bush's spying on U.S. citizens: "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government."
    January 17, 2006

  • Bush's war on professionals

    The president is determined to stop whistle-blowers and the press from halting his administration's illegal, ever-expanding secret government. But it may be too late.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 5, 2006

  • "The law is king"

    The notion of absolute executive power has a venerable history, but it lacks an American pedigree.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 22, 2005

  • "Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled"

    In an impassioned speech, Sen. Byrd voices his shock and dismay over the Bush administration's practice of spying on U.S. citizens.
    December 21, 2005

  • Uncle Sam is listening

    Bush may have bypassed federal wiretap law to deploy more high-tech methods of surveillance.
    By Bruce Schneier December 20, 2005

  • Bush's illegal spying

    The president defied a major Supreme Court ruling to authorize hundreds of wiretaps inside the U.S.
    By David Cole December 20, 2005
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