Policy
NSA Spying Is At Stake in This 'Last-Ditch' Reform Bill
With the clock winding down, lawmakers are staging one last attempt to rein in the government’s surveillance powers.
Business
The NSA's Fight To Keep Its Best Hackers
Even with flexible hiring authorities, the agency is losing its elite employees to deep-pocketed cyber-security firms.
Ideas
How To Boost Domestic Intelligence and Privacy To Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack
Here are three steps to balance civil liberties with domestic security needs.
Science & Tech
Can Facial Recognition Technology Help US Spies Predict China's Next Island?
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is using technology akin to facial recognition to track and predict China's strategy for militarizing a region known as Mischief Reef.
Science & Tech
How the NSA Is Using the Cloud To Thwart the Next Snowden
In a post-Snowden world, is it really a good idea to have analysts swimming around in one vast ocean of NSA secrets and data?
Threats
CIA Director Says the War on Terror May Never End
CIA Director John Brennan said Americans should expect the war on terror to continue as long as evil people have access to lethal technologies and mass communication.
Science & Tech
Snowden's Leaks Forced the DEA To End Its Own Mass Surveillance Program
By exposing the NSA’s spying programs, fugitive leaker Edward Snowden forced the Justice Department to shut down a separate phone-surveillance operation.
Science & Tech
Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?
The planet is awash in open, free data. Can military-funded research turn it into a crystal ball?
Policy
The Future of NSA Reform, GOP 2016 Edition
Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are likely going to hit their opponents—and each other—early and often for backing mass surveillance.
Policy
This Senate Race Will Be a Referendum on Obama's National Security Policy
The new Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr has based his reelection campaign on hopes that voters care more about foreign policy than the economy.
Ideas
Better Privacy Protections Key to US Foreign Policy Coherence
While Washington has nominally supported internet freedom around the globe, its surveillance programs have undermined human rights.
Policy
New Legislation Seeks To Keep Hackers, NSA at Bay
While the legislation seeks to promote information sharing, lawmakers will need to assuage privacy concerns.
Business
Here's Why the NSA Won't Need Congress' Permission To Continue Spying
A passage buried in a recently declassified FISA court document paves the way for the NSA's bulk collection of U.S. phone data to continue beyond its June 1 expiration.
Threats
The Pentagon’s Top Intelligence Chief Is Out
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers announced his retirement from service by the end of April.
Science & Tech
Three Steps To Destroy ISIS on Twitter
Data scientists say Twitter has done much to thwart ISIS, but offer these simple steps to degrade the group and its massive online following.
Policy
Republicans Push Climate Change Cuts at CIA, Defense Department
The new GOP budget wants to gut the Pentagon's research into the national security implications of climate change.
Business
The FBI's Big Plan To Expand Its Hacking Powers
Technology giant Google has warned that a rule change represents a 'monumental' constitutional concern.
Policy
Support for Government Surveillance Could Imperil GOP's 2016 Hopefuls
That's one of several takeaways from a Pew survey measuring how much the Snowden leaks have changed how Americans protect their privacy online.
Science & Tech
Pentagon Intel Analysts May Soon Use a Trick from Amazon's Book
A system copying Amazon's user experience could help coordinate the work of analysts at the Defense Department's National Ground Intelligence Center.
Science & Tech