List of National Security Agency articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congress Passes Overhaul of NSA Surveillance Program
Ending more than a week of intense debate, the Senate voted on Tuesday to limit the federal government’s vast surveillance powers while keeping many powerful snooping programs intact -- a compromise meant to balance civil liberties concerns with the intelligence community’s insistence that it needs the tools to prevent future attacks against the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Forget the Patriot Act – Here Are the Privacy Violations You Should Be Worried About
America hasn't even begun to have a meaningful debate about curtailing the government's right to spy on citizens.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 NSA Loses Power to Collect Phone Data — At Least for Now
The NSA has lost its authority to collect data on U.S. citizens. For now.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pyongyang 1, NSA 0: U.S. Tried and Failed to Hack North Korea’s Nuclear Infrastructure
The attempted hack was similar to the Stuxnet virus that infected Iranian centrifuges.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tea Party and ACLU Call on Congress to Let Patriot Act Expire
In the literal definition of a strange bedfellows alliance, a top Tea Party group and the American Civil Liberties Union are pressing lawmakers to allow the controversial provisions of the Patriot Act that authorize the National Security Agency's broad surveillance activities to expire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America’s Virulent, Extremist Counterterrorism Ideology
Forget the long war; we’re now in the thick of perpetual war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Surveillance Hawks and Privacy Advocates Agree: House NSA Bill is a Flop
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and privacy advocates both agree the NSA reform bill that just passed the House is a dud.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Some Thoughts for America’s Next Top General
A personal memo to the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Moving the Drone Program from the CIA to the Pentagon Won’t Improve Transparency
Generals aren’t better than spooks when it comes to reporting civilian casualties.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The NSA Isn’t Likely to Miss Its Illegal Bulk Phone Collection Program
A federal court ruled the NSA's collection of American phone data is illegal. The agency isn't likely to miss it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Taps Insider Gayle Smith to Lead USAID
President Obama picks Gayle Smith, a member of his inner circle, to take over USAID.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Genocide Under Our Watch
Newly declassified White House documents place Richard Clarke and Susan Rice at the forefront of U.S. efforts to limit a robust U.N. peacekeeping operation before and during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. Needs to End Its Ban on Crude Oil Exports
We can help our allies and undermine our adversaries if we get rid of this antiquated policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Time for Fist-Bumping
The interim Iran nuclear deal is worth celebrating, but it’s just a small piece of a much bigger puzzle.
