Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA tech now working for a private contractor, has exposed himself as the source behind the major intelligence leaks about the government’s surveillance programs last week, reports The Guardian. Snowden decided he would out himself as soon as he chose to publicly disclose the confidential documents pertaining to highly secretive […]

The NSA and FBI are spying on every American directly through the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple, reports the Washington Post. According to top secret documents, the program called PRISM, allows the feds to tap into every email, video or voice chat, video conference, photo, stored data, file […]

The NSA probably has your phone records on file. A top secret order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requires Verizon to turn over all call logs “between the United States and abroad” and those “wholly within the United Sates, including local telephone calls.” The Guardian was the first to break the story and reports […]

Republicans are fuming over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to hold an early special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, with several Washington-based operatives suggesting he’s putting his own interests ahead of the GOP’s, National Journal reports. The Republican governor said his decision was dictated by state election law, […]

That’s the question the Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan asks as the New Jersey Governor faces the task of replacing the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg in the U.S. Senate. The New York Times notes the decision is “fraught with pitfalls” and reports Christie’s fear of Newark Mayor Cory Booker appearing on the same ballot as his […]