I have no idea how I missed this last week, but just saw it mentioned on Twitter. Michael Riley reports: Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process…
Category: Govt
DHS hopes to get same cyber-spying powers as NSA
Josh Peterson reports: Domestic spying capabilities used by the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens could soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security — a bureaucracy with the power to arrest citizens that is not subject to limitations imposed on the NSA. Read more on The Daily Caller. Thanks…
Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense
In the wake of revelations about NSA amassing phone records, a sharp defense lawyer filed a motion to compel the government to turn over his client’s records that might exonerate him. Julia Filip reports: Citing the NSA telephone dragnet, a federal judge ordered the United States government to deliver telephone records demanded by a man…
Rep sparks confusion over claim NSA can wiretap without warrant
Because I noted Rep. Nadler’s comments on getting a different story in a classified briefing than what Director Mueller testified to last week, I thought it important to note this follow-up: A Capitol Hill lawmaker sparked a string of conflicting statements about the limits of U.S. surveillance after claiming during a hearing last week that…