Representatives voted 293 to 121 to ban the NSA from performing warrantless searches of data collected under foreign surveillance program. The US House of Representative on Thursday night endorsed a move to ban a major provision of the National Security Agency. Representatives voted 293 to 121 to ban the NSA from performing warrantless searches of data collected under foreign surveillance program,... 

The Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general has asked the US Justice Department to investigate allegations that the spy agency spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The allegations are directly related to a closed-door battle between the CIA and its congressional overseers over a 6,300-page report which details torture techniques, including water-boarding, wall-slamming and shackling,... 

Federal detectives won’t need a warrant to eavesdrop on the emails and phone calls of Americans for another five years. President Obama reauthorized an intelligence gathering bill on Sunday that puts national security over constitutional rights. President Barack Obama inked his name over the weekend to an extension of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a George W. Bush-era legislation that has allowed...