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 […]
Long overdue: A shield law for journalists – Tallahassee Democrat
Last summer, supporters were confident that at long last a federal shield law for journalists would be enacted. After a number of false starts, they were convinced that a measure to ensure that journalists wouldn’t have to choose between protecting confidential sources and going to jail would make it over the finish line. The key […]
