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Government Will Pay $3 Million in Coffee Table Spying Suit
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table. Rather than comply with a court...
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TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive
Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on...
View ArticleTSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers
In the wake of public outcry against the Transportation Security Administration for serving civil subpoenas on two bloggers, the government agency has canceled the legal action and apologized for the...
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Blogger’s Twitter Account Implicated in TSA Leak Hunt
Hours after two TSA agents served a civil subpoena on blogger Steven Frischling last week to uncover the anonymous source of a leaked document, an unusual message appeared on the blogger’s Twitter...
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FBI Broke Law Spying on Americans’ Phone Records, Post Reports
An internal audit found the FBI broke the law thousands of times when requesting Americans’ phone records using fake emergency letters that were never followed up on with true subpoenas — even though...
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FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws
The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations...
View ArticleNSA to Spy on Critical Infrastructure, Says WSJ
The NSA has a new program called “Perfect Citizen” that lets it monitor the networks of utilities and other “critical” infrastructure to identify potential electronic attacks, The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleNSA Denies It Will Spy on Utilities
The NSA is denying a report from the Wall Street Journal that a secret program code-named “Perfect Citizen” will be monitoring civilian networks. That’s from a rare public statement by the ultra-secret...
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Citing Obama’s State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case
Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA...
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Father-Son Spy Drama Ends With Dad’s 8-Year Sentence
A disgraced CIA agent serving 23 years for being a Russian spy was handed eight more years Tuesday for hiring his son to collect overdue bills linked to the father’s nefarious espionage activities. The...
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