Jun 07, 2013 · What is the scandal? The US's National Security Agency (NSA), its wiretapping agency, has been monitoring communications between the US and foreign nationals over the internet for a number of

Jun 16, 2013 · At a time when the Obama administration's IRS, Benghazi and Justice Department scandals have understandably damaged Americans' trust in their government, it is important to understand why these programs are different. Neither program allows the NSA to read e-mails or listen to phone calls of American citizens. Jun 06, 2013 · More: Elements NSA Scandal Obama Politics Verizon. Amy Davidson Sorkin. Sign up and get Amy Davidson Sorkin’s analysis of world news, American politics, and more, all delivered to your in-box. Jul 01, 2013 · Scandals at NSA and IRS Are Equally Alarming . By Gene Healy. The NSA activity is less alarming, Professor Richard Epstein argued recently, because, among other things, “the military Sep 18, 2013 · NSA Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged U.S. Cryptography Standard. The spy agency pushed the federal technology standard-bearer NIST to include a flawed, little used algorithm in a NSA surveillance reform bill advances in the Senate The House has passed a version of the bill, which adjusts a controversial phone data collection program, but the Senate could change it Jun 2, 2015 The choreography of Washington 'scandals' has become as precise — and as predictable — as a The NSA moved fast to lock onto those numbers in hopes of learning something — anything

Jun 24, 2013 · And the mongers of the pre-NSA scandals will likely have a harder time driving a message in the absence of significant new revelations. Read More: NSA Scandals , Edward Snowden , IRS Scandal

The NSA data-collection scandal might have been received very differently if it had not come on top of all the other Obama scandals. In the past, some Republicans have been in favor of nearly any Jun 10, 2013 · Verizon. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been empowered by a secret order issued by the foreign intelligence court directing Verizon Communications, a mobile phone provider with 98.9 The disclosure revealed specific details of the NSA's close cooperation with U.S. federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in addition to the agency's previously undisclosed financial payments to numerous commercial partners and telecommunications companies, as well as its previously undisclosed relationships with Jun 07, 2013 · What is the scandal? The US's National Security Agency (NSA), its wiretapping agency, has been monitoring communications between the US and foreign nationals over the internet for a number of

Jun 07, 2013 · And the NSA itself was brought to a grinding halt before 9/11 by the “torrent of data” pouring into the system, leaving the agency “brain-dead” for half a week and “[unable] to process

Nov 07, 2019 · The extent of the program is evident in the NSA’s own words, calling PRISM “one of the most valuable, unique and productive” in the agency’s history. This access to American’s via the FISA courts is now again in the news due to claims of manufactured information being used in the secret courts to gain permission to spy on the Trump The National Security Agency/Central Security Service Cryptologic Memorial honors and remembers the fallen personnel, both military and civilian, of these intelligence missions. It is made of black granite, and has 171 names carved into it, as of 2013. It is located at NSA headquarters. A tradition of declassifying the stories of the fallen was The NSA has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. James Clapper, of NSA-scandal fame, is stepping down. A remark to Congress by Clapper provided a key moment during the uproar over NSA spying. Initial reaction to NSA mass surveillance leaks. In June 2013, reports from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners had created a global system of surveillance that was responsible for the mass collection of information on American and foreign citizens.