The director of the National Security Agency, under fire for his department’s widespread phone and Internet surveillance programs, told lawmakers Wednesday that such data collections have foiled ...

The director of the National Security Agency, under fire for the widespread surveillance of U.S. phones and Internet servers, told lawmakers Wednesday that such data collections have foiled “dozens” ...

WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice, ...

NSA officials say the government's secret surveillance programs may have stopped terror plots to bomb the city's subway system and the New York Stock Exchange. Gen. Keith Alexander testified before ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. General Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, returned to Capitol Hill today for the third time in a week. This time, he testified before the House ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Edward Snowden identified himself Sunday as a principal source behind revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping phone and Internet surveillance programs. Five things ...

Leahy is the sponsor of one proposal that would severely restrict the NSA’s bulk-collection programs. He said that although some might regard Snowden as a “hero,’’ the former contractor’s disclosures ...

Amash said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is “very concerned” with the program. {mosads}”Chairman Goodlatte is very concerned about this issue. You have Jim Sensenbrenner ...

No one in the intelligence community wants to face another leak. With NSA’s widespread adoption of cloud computing, the spy agency may not have to. Almost two years ago, the National Security Agency ...

Time's Zeke Miller got a pretty amazing story: the Republican National Committee passed a resolution broadly condemning the NSA's surveillance tools at its winter meeting on Friday. The only catch is ...

LAS VEGAS — A skeptical but mostly respectful crowd of Black Hat security attendees Wednesday listened intently as National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander defended controversial U.S.

After claiming U.K. spies on summit leaders, Snowden says U.S. can't stop him. June 18, 2013 — -- Edward Snowden, the man who claims to be behind a stunning slew of top secret information leaks ...