Obama’s Year In Review
ISIS, Ferguson, the Senate, Ukraine, Ebola, border kids. Really, this was a pretty awful sixth year for the president. Not that he’s acting like it. by James Oliphant …
What Obama’s Many Messes Really Mean
Dems blame . . . big government? by S.E. Cupp Another week, another scandal. From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture,…
Accused of Spying on Congress, CIA Director Tap Dances
by Major Garrett CIA Director John Brennan denied credible allegations of spying on Congress—a federal crime—leveled by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein with a classic Washington evasion. “We wouldn’t…
Obama: If you like your privacy, you can keep it
by George Landrith President Barack Obama had too little to say about the needed reforms at the National Security Agency in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. His previous comments…
Government needs trust to effectively govern, but trust is at historic lows
From the IRS to the NSA, Americans have sound and reasonable reasons not to trust the Obama Administration. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds At a tax symposium at Pepperdine Law School…
USAToday: Obama NSA ‘reforms’ fall short
Five months ago, after leaks revealed that the government is engaged in a vast and disturbing array of intrusive surveillance programs, President Obama vowed to find ways to strike the…
Obama’s NSA Proposals Fall Far Short of Real Change
The White House’s tepid plan aims to calm the public, not curtail the government’s surveillance programs. by James Oliphant The White House promised Friday that it was ending the NSA’s…
Record High Say Big Government Greatest Threat
Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future…
5 Things The Obama Administration Had No Idea The Obama Administration Was Doing
“I wouldn’t be surprised if President Obama learned Osama bin Laden had been killed when he saw himself announce it on television.” — Jon Stewart by John Hawkins What’s the…
Update: NSA Analysts spied on love interests
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions. In response to a letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
Update on NSA gathering data on social connections of U.S. citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
NSA employees spy on lovers and former spouses
by Harriet Alexander Staff working at America’s National Security Agency – the eavesdropping unit that was revealed to have spied on millions of people – have used the technology to spy…
Abusing the Patriot Act
by Jim Sensenbrenner On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American’s…
It is Time for Answers from the NSA
by John Fund It’s time to ask tough questions about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities — even for conservatives who have given the NSA the benefit of every doubt…
Revelations hint at NSA ducking oversight
The agency’s approach to collecting data is too easily abused. Since news broke in June that the government has been seizing millions of Americans’ phone and Internet records, the Obama…