A San Francisco federal judge today considers whether the federal government can stop states from investigating telephone companies suspected of providing information for a terrorist surveillance program.
The man nominated to become the general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency is likely to face questions about interrogation techniques when he goes before a Senate committee today.
As the ongoing terrorism support trial of Jose Padilla ended its fifth week in Miami, even the government’s own witness had to concede in cross-examination that the defense had a…
According to a party, a federal judge in a FOIA case today ordered the FBI to release on an expedited basis records of the agency’s domestic spying on Americans under…
The federal judge overseeing the trial of six men accused of plotting to storm Fort Dix said he would try to post evidence online as it is presented at trial.
A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging harsh prison conditions filed by a Muslim detained as a person of interest after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Frustrated by federal privacy law that protects student mental health records from disclosure even after the subject’s death, a Virginia Tech advisory panel reviewing the on-campus massacre of more than…
The FBI may have violated laws or FBI regulations more than 1,000 times when collecting national security data about domestic phone calls, e-mail and financial transactions, an internal audit found.
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