A panel of experts appointed by President Obama to review the NSA’s surveillance methods has concluded that the agency’s call-tracking database, hasn’t worked as advertised to protect the country from terrorism and ought to be taken out of the NSA’s control. Instead, the board recommends that phone companies or some other private entity maintain the […]

Senate Republicans attempted to stop military pension cuts in the budget deal Tuesday night by offering an amendment to close a loophole allowing illegal immigrants to collect billions in welfare benefits every year. But, the Daily Caller reports Senate Democrats rebuffed the effort. Learn more here. NYT: Merkel Compared NSA to East German Stasi in […]

A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s program to track the phone records of millions of Americans without probable cause likely violated the Fourth Amendment, reports The Guardian. The judge issuing the ruling, Judge Richard Leon, is a conservative appointed by George W. Bush with a history of challenging the power of […]

Under fire for the Snowden leaks, the National Security Agency agreed to unprecedented access to the media for the first time in its history. 60 Minutes has the feature – where the NSA’s chief gives their run-down on what they do and why they do it. The Guardian reports the NSA in considering offering Snowden […]

As the House passed the Ryan-Murray budget deal, Speaker John Boehner took the opportunity to rip Tea Party affiliated conservative groups, reports the Washington Post. Regarding conservative groups who opposed the budget deal, Boehner said, “Frankly, I think they’re misleading their followers…And frankly, I just think that they’ve lost all credibility.” Boehner admitted he’d felt […]