The Oregon senator took issue with Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s responses to questions regarding civil liberties and oversight against unlawful surveillance.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance programs has foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide in a forceful ...

A federal appeals court has brought a case against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone surveillance program back from the dead. Back in 2013, U.S. District Judge William Pauley dismissed the ...

In an overwhelming vote, the House moved the U.S. closer to ending the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records Thursday, the most significant demonstration to date of ...

The National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records is bound for review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — just as the court is set to undergo significant ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. It was a rough political week for President Obama after a string of revelations about sweeping government surveillance of American telephone ...

The defenses of the National Security Agency's program to collect and store records of every phone call and every email have not been very impressive. The NSA defenders point to a secret court that ...

President Obama wants America to know that the PRISM scandal, which revealed the NSA and FBI have unfettered access to the data centers of companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, actually only ...