Oct 14th, 2008 · Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency stepped up its efforts to collect intelligence domestically by filtering millions of conversations and e-mail messages. In his new book, The Shadow Factor, journalist James Bamford reveals that the ultra-secret agency has half a million people on its watch lists.
May 13th, 2008 · It's become a $50 billion a year industry: Corporations like Booz Allen, Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, and IBM are being paid to do things the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon usually do, including analysis, covert operations, electronic surveillance and reconnaissance.
Jan 12th, 2008 · A National Security Agency report released this week details intelligence communications, hoaxes and occasional mishaps during the Vietnam War. National Security Archives historian John Prados discusses what these newly declassified documents say about the U.S. strategy in Vietnam.
Nov 8th, 2007 · Senators consider whether phone companies should be let off the hook for allowing the National Security Agency to tap customers' phone calls and e-mails without a court warrant. Whistleblower Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, says it gives the NSA access to all Internet communications.
Nov 7th, 2007 · Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician whose testimony was central to class-action lawsuits against AT&T for wiretapping, is fighting a possible Senate deal that would grant immunity to telecoms for their role in National Security Agency surveillance -- effectively nullifying the lawsuits.
Oct 10th, 2007 · Two House committees are grappling with the legislation Congress passed in August to broaden the National Security Agency's ability to eavesdrop on foreign communications without a warrant. That law expires in February.
Aug 17th, 2006 · A federal judge deals a blow to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program, ruling Thursday that the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping is unconstitutional. The lawsuit against the program was filed on behalf of a group of journalists, attorneys and scholars by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Jul 27th, 2006 · The White House has done an about-face, and announced support for legislation that is supposed to place limits on domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency. That change of heart has given civil liberties groups one more reason to oppose the legislation Congress is examining. Larry Abramson reports.