The National Security Agency's controversial warrantless wiretapping program has been ruled illegal by a federal judge. The case was brought by the Oregon-based Al Haramain Charity Foundation, whose ...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the courts will ultimately have to determine the legality of wiretapping by the National Security Agency. And he’s not sure that’s a good thing. Scalia ...

JURIST Guest Columnist William Banks of Syracuse University College of Law says that even if legal authority is found for the NSA domestic surveillance program, such spying still violates the Fourth ...

Q: What information is being collected? A: The Guardian newspaper published a highly classified U.S. court order that allows the government access to all of Verizon’s phone records, for both domestic ...

WASHINGTON – Two months after vowing to roll back broad new wiretapping powers won by the Bush administration, congressional Democrats appear ready to make concessions that could extend some of the ...

WASHINGTON The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports that the National Security Agency improperly tapped into the ...

Deciding whether a terrorism suspect deserves a new trial because the government might have used secret wiretap evidence gathered without a warrant might seem like a complicated matter. But in March ...

The Presidency on Friday called for an investigation and possible prosecution of former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over what it described as an open confession of illegal ...