Former Vice President Dick Cheney, integral to the government’s expansion of surveillance authority in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, vigorously defended the legality and necessity of that surveillance on “Fox News Sunday,” while slamming former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as a ‘traitor’ and, possibly, a Chinese spy. The Washington Post reports on Snowden’s […]

President Obama announced the U.S. would be providing military support to Syrian rebels after revealing the administration believes Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against the rebels, reports CBS News and the Washington Post. Obama’s decision comes just one day after Politico reported that President Clinton sided with John McCain in calls for […]

NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden yesterday revealed to the South China Morning Post that he will stay in Hong Kong to fight likely attempts by the US to have him extradited. In an exclusive interview conducted from an undisclosed location, the former CIA analyst also leveled explosive claims that the US government had been hacking into […]

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former NSA contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it and order the […]

Edward Snowden, the contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs, dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges, Reuters is reporting. In choosing Hong Kong as […]