Defense And Security Archive
Archives for May 2015
Three provisions of the Patriot Act are going to expire this evening. And, contrary to the claims of surveillance hawks, that’s not an emergency.
The Senate is moving forward with compromise legislation called the USA Freedom Act.
The USA Freedom Act, which Paul opposes, reforms laws that won’t be affected by the imminent expiration of a controversial section of the Patriot Act.
Campaign officials like to spin reporters in private. That’s worth making public.
The Department of Defense says there is “no known risk to the general public” from the mistaken shipments.
The Senate refused to extend the NSA’s mass surveillance of phone records by even a single day.
It’s a new way of thinking about security.
Edward Snowden cares about transparency so much he answered a question about John Oliver’s penis.
Rand Paul’s 10-and-a-half-hour speech on the collection of Americans’ records is a major gift to the public. Not because he’s right per se, but because he brought executive power into the presidential campaign.
Thanks in part to a filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are going to expire on Sunday evening.
The senator wants to shut down a controversial NSA program that collects every American’s phone records.
The Vermont senator on marijuana legalization, curbing corporate power in politics, cutting student debt, and more.
If you added up all the foreign military bases of every other country combined, you’d get around 30.
This poster illustrates the diversity of aircraft owned by the US Navy.
The legislation could end the National Security Agency’s practice of spying on every American’s phone records.