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national security letters
A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data to communications firms, a ruling that dealt a blow to pri…
A federal judge is agreeing with the FBI's contention that publicly disclosing its methods on how it spies on journalists could hamper national security. A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brou…
A federal judge currently in the spotlight for blocking President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries is now questioning the constitutionality …
Federal agents have been lying to get access to phone records that should require a court order, allowing them to sift through private phone calls of news reporters and other citizens, according to t…
After 2009 - a year when federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism than in any year since the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and in today's atmosphere of heightened fear triggere…
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide re…
