NSA

Politics

USA FREEDOM and Rand Paul

Civil libertarians are disappointed by the Kentucky senator's vote against debate on NSA reform legislation.

Ronald Bailey | 11.21.2014 1:30 PM

Rand Paul

Ronald Bailey: Rand Paul May Regret Voting Against the USA FREEDOM Act

Reason Staff | 11.21.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Obama's Executive Action Play, Jared Polis on Pelosi & NSA, John Stossel on Jon Gruber, U.S. Continues to Plummet, Drinking Your own Pee, and Two Minutes Hate

Matt Welch | 11.19.2014 8:30 PM

Domestic spying

Senate Votes to Maintain the National Security Surveillance State

Ronald Bailey | 11.19.2014 9:51 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Goodbye, USA Freedom and Keystone Pipeline! Hello, Executive Action, Weird Chinese Censorship, and Ferguson Build-up! Also, Anthony Fisher on Jerusalem Terror, and After-show

Matt Welch | 11.18.2014 8:13 PM

Domestic spying

Mitch McConnell: USA FREEDOM Act Would Be 'Tying Our Hands Behind Our Back.' Yes, That's Actually the Point of It.

Ronald Bailey | 11.18.2014 4:02 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Gruber? I Just Met Her! Plus Bill Nye the Science Guy, Robert Bryce on Keystone, Kmele Foster on the USA Freedom Act, Michael Weiss on ISIS, After-show, and More!

Matt Welch | 11.17.2014 8:27 PM

Rand Paul

Rand Paul Gives Thumbs Down to Weaker NSA Reform Bill

Scott Shackford | 11.14.2014 4:00 PM

Edward Snowden

For Thanksgiving: Go See Citizenfour!

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2014 12:23 PM

Civil Liberties

Justice Department Lied in Court About National Security Letters

J.D. Tuccille | 11.14.2014 11:32 AM

Surveillance

Feds Engage in Massive Spying on Americans' Cellphones from the Air

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2014 11:01 AM

Politics

Justin Amash: The New GOP Majority May Be Better Than You Think

Matt Welch | 11.13.2014 4:43 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Now What? With a Trash-Talking Ron Paul, Plus Gary Johnson, Alan Colmes, Andrea Tantaros, FAIR's Dan Stein, and More

Matt Welch | 11.7.2014 8:31 PM

Politics

Rep. Mike Rogers Is Taking His NSA Propaganda to the Airwaves

Patrick Hannaford | 11.7.2014 10:52 AM

NSA

Appeals Court Hears NSA Mass Surveillance Arguments

Battle over whether it is constitutional

Reason Staff | 11.4.2014 3:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Targeted Surveillance? NSA Says It Can't Distinguish American Emails From Foreign Missives.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.31.2014 5:07 PM

Civil Liberties

Post Office Tracks Your Mail (Often Without Proper Authorization)

J.D. Tuccille | 10.28.2014 1:27 PM

Politics

Does Hillary Clinton Oppose NSA Spying? Nobody Knows (Except Maybe the NSA)

Robby Soave | 10.28.2014 9:59 AM

Politics

Obama's Taylor Swift Strategy: Shake It Off (Remy Remix)

Meredith Bragg | 10.26.2014 1:00 PM

Edward Snowden

NSA Groupie Rep. Mike Rogers Wants Edward Snowden Charged with Murder

Scott Shackford | 10.22.2014 5:30 PM

Edward Snowden

Rep. Mike Rogers Wants Snowden Charged with Murder

Just retire already

Reason Staff | 10.22.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

NSA Opponent Mark Udall Could Lose Senate Seat

Lucian McMahon | 10.20.2014 3:59 PM

NSA

NSA Investigating Current Official's Work With Ex-Chief's Lucrative New Firm

Yet, they somehow don't know if the two are actually working together.

Zenon Evans | 10.20.2014 3:10 PM

Politics

Live Today at 12 Noon ET: Edward Snowden Interviewed by Lawrence Lessig

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2014 11:13 AM

War

4 Ways Democrats Are Full of Shit

Jason Keisling and J.D. Tuccille | 10.16.2014 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Florida Supreme Court Rules Cell Phone Location Data Protected by 4th Amendment

Reason Staff | 10.16.2014 12:50 PM

Politics

Whistleblower Monday: Watch the V.A.'s Scott Davis and the NSA's William Binney Explain How the Government Punished Them for Telling the Truth

Matt Welch | 10.13.2014 6:27 PM

Civil Liberties

Edward Snowden: If You Care About Your Privacy, Avoid Dropbox, Facebook, and Google

Reason Staff | 10.13.2014 9:03 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Governmental Breakdown, With Glenn Reynolds, Mike 'Heckuva Job' Brown, NSA Whistleblower William Binney, Thad McCotter, and Critics of the V.A., CIA, and Post Office!

Matt Welch | 10.10.2014 6:01 PM

Politics

Google Warns That NSA Is Breaking Internet

Lucian McMahon | 10.10.2014 3:39 PM

Civil Liberties

This Is How the Feds Illegally Obtain Evidence of a Crime and Lie About It in Court

The NSA and Justice Department go after suspects in crimes unrelated to national security using an unlawful, deceptive practice called "parallel reconstruction."

Andrew Napolitano | 10.9.2014 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Federal Court to Review F.B.I.'s Secret Electronic Spying

Reason Staff | 10.8.2014 9:45 AM

Civil Liberties

Librarians Mount Defense Against Government Surveillance

Lucian McMahon | 10.6.2014 3:32 PM

Civil Liberties

Truth or Gaffe? Biden Admits U.S. Faces No Existential Threat From Terrorism

Lucian McMahon | 10.3.2014 3:05 PM

Policy

How the NSA and Its Allies Tried to Stop the First Book-Length Exposé of the Agency

James Bamford's battles with the National Security Agency.

Jesse Walker | 10.3.2014 12:39 PM

Politics

Eric Holder is a Back Door Man (Tech Edition)

Nick Gillespie | 10.1.2014 10:11 AM

Politics

"Eric Holder's Legacy: Duplicity, Incompetence, Obliviousness"

Nick Gillespie | 9.25.2014 2:56 PM

Civil Liberties

School Secretly Monitoring Students' Facebook Posts—On Advice from NSA

Robby Soave | 9.24.2014 10:49 AM

Politics

Instapundit: Don't Fear the Leaker!

Nick Gillespie | 9.16.2014 4:34 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Skies Over Baghdad Have Been Re-Illuminated, Chris Moody on Rand Paul's Flip-Flops, Jacob Sullum on Asset Forfeiture, Former Linebacker Darrell Reid on the NFL, Plus NSA, Chinese Sidewalks, Hillary, & Aftersho

Matt Welch | 9.15.2014 8:13 PM

Surveillance

Smartphone Experiment Shows How Your Metadata Tells Your Story

Scott Shackford | 9.15.2014 10:50 AM

Surveillance

$250,000 a Day: That's the Fine the Feds Threatened Yahoo With for Resisting Data Demands

Scott Shackford | 9.11.2014 5:12 PM

Surveillance

Mass NSA Phone Metadata Collection in Federal Appeals Court Crosshairs

Scott Shackford | 9.3.2014 12:05 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Surveillance

Appeals Court Takes on Legalities of NSA Snooping

Obama administration grilled on mass collection of phone records

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 5:40 PM

Surveillance

Dems Push Obama to Declassify Snooping Rules

Want access to legal opinions justifying executive power to collect people's information

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Are Rogue NSA Agents Tipping Off Tor to Its Vulnerabilities?

Zenon Evans | 8.26.2014 1:48 PM