Obamacare will create a huge national repository of personal information — “and the problem is that this information doesn’t have a lot of safeguards,” Rep. Diane Black warned Newsmax in an exclusive interview last month. Now Rare reports on Sunday the repository is called the Federal Data Services Hub and its purpose, according to a […]

A National Security Agency representative rather casually disclosed, during testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday, that the government looks at data several degrees of separation beyond previously indicated, The Atlantic Wire reports. John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform “a […]

In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said Wednesday they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America, the AP reports. Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who was chief author of the Patriot Act in 2001, said that Congress specifically […]

A deal emerged Tuesday morning, led by Sen. John McCain and Majority Leader Harry Reid, to defuse the “nuclear option” that would have eliminated filibusters of executive nominations, Roll Call reports. Reid said Democrats and Republicans worked out “a way forward that will be good for everybody.” As part of the agreement,  Politico reports the […]

Senator Harry Reid struck a defiant and uncompromising tone on Monday ahead of a closed-door meeting of the Senate, suggesting that ending filibusters of executive branch nominations would “save the Senate from becoming obsolete,” reports the New York Times. According to The Hill, Reid said he will trigger the “nuclear option” this week unless Republicans […]