A military lawyer had identified forty-one highly classified state secrets revealed in a single article. Senior officials were telling everyone who would listen that the journalists’ revelations had made the country less safe and put lives at risk—the reporters were simply traitors. The Russians might be behind it, and who knew what secrets the journalists […]
Patriot Act helped FBI obtain data – Tallahassee Democrat
WASHINGTON The amount and types of business records available to U.S. investigators has dramatically expanded in recent years under terms of the Patriot Act, resulting in the FBI’s pursuit of a “broadening scope” of materials, an internal Justice Department review found Thursday. The report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, the third in a series […]
NSA data sweeps ruled illegal, Tallahassee Democrat
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a National Security Agency program that sweeps up logs of Americans’ phone calls is illegal — the most significant setback yet for the long-running surveillance operation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York said the program went beyond what Congress authorized in 2001 to […]
