FISA Court Documents Reveal Just How Little the NSA Cares About Your Privacy

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2013 The National Security Agency is not only collecting all your personal data, it's also sharing that information with other government agencies. And let's face it, this has nothing to do with terrorism. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Taxpayer Money Used to Cover PRISM Compliance Costs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 23, 2013 Top-secret material passed to The Guardian shows that the National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to help major Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook cover the cost of certification for participating in the PRISM surveillance program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Judge Calls Out Feds for Repeated ‘Misrepresentation’ in Secret FISA Court

BLANK Aug 22, 2013 A declassified 2011 secret court ruling found the federal government had offered "substantial misrepresentation(s)" -- in laymen's terms, it lied -- in legal filings to the judges assigned to oversee the NSA's secret surveillance programs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Surveillance Blowback

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Jul 16, 2013 For well over a century, what might be called “surveillance blowback” from America’s wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus. Its future (though not ours) looks bright indeed. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Secret Intelligence Court a Precursor to Tyranny

William Pfaff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2013 The justification for this secret court -- as is usual in the development of 20th century secret police states -- is national security. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Oliver Stone Urges Action to End ‘Surveillance State’

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 11, 2013 In a new video produced by the ACLU, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker says it's time to take a stand for American civil liberties in the wake of the recent revelations about the scope of the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Most Secretive Court in America May Also Be the Most Conservative

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jul 3, 2013 The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a unique judicial body, not only in terms of its procedures but in terms of the political leanings of its judges, who comprise a panel so uniformly Republican that the five-justice right-wing majority on the current Supreme Court appears positively liberal in comparison.The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is so uniformly Republican that the five-justice right-wing majority on the current Supreme Court appears positively liberal in comparison. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jun 19, 2013 The Internet giant's petition to the tribunal says its free speech rights have been violated because it is legally prohibited from discussing even the vaguest details of government surveillance requests. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A New Balance Toward Liberty

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jun 13, 2013 The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Feingold Correctly Predicted Patriot Act Abuse in 2001 (Video)

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 11, 2013 When the Senate passed the Patriot Act after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, only one senator voted against it: Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin. At the time, he expressed concern over where it could lead. And in the wake of revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance, it turns out the former senator's fears were completely justified. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The End of the Right of Privacy?

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jun 7, 2013 Someday, a young girl will look up into her father's eyes and ask, "Daddy, what was privacy?" Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Millions of Verizon Phone Records Secretly Collected Daily (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 6, 2013 The National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon via an order that requires the company to hand over the records on an "ongoing, daily basis," Glenn Greenwald reports in The Guardian.The National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )