Certain guarantees of security are simply impossible in a free society, and the more we widen the net of suspects via mass surveillance, the more impossible true protection gets.
The Department of Homeland Security makes terrorism more effective by exaggerating the threat it poses.
His recklessness doesn't necessarily weaken the executive branch. In fact the opposite may be true.
Supreme Court turns away transparency lawsuit trying to force release of Senate report.
Voters go to the polls Sunday, where two candidates will advance to the final round.
Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them.
About 40 U.S. troops will "train and equip" local forces.
Data journalist details five-year fight to make information more available.
A U.S. airstrike in Mosul could have caused the largest civilian casualties since the start of the Iraq War.
But what can the U.S. accomplish in its 16th year in Afghanistan that it couldn't accomplish in the first 15?
Reports show possible loosening of restrictions on strikes, more CIA participation.
Bombing campaign in Yemen intensifies as additional troops head to Syria, elsewhere.
America has been trying to have it both ways for too long.
'Shut up,' the president explained.
During the 90-day ban, the government is considering whether to extend it in duration and scope.
The secret prisons used by the CIA during the Bush administration-where torture took place-could get a Trump-era reboot.
The global war on terror never missed a beat.
A decades-long fight gets a new face.
Hints at actual policy plans.
Official government count of "non-combatant" deaths under Obama is between 66 and 118. Other estimates are north of 400.
Opportunity to limit government surveillance power missed.
Will we ever truly know the full extent that we used waterboarding and abusive techniques on prisoners during the war on terror?
A speech on respecting rule of law and transparency from an administration that did neither.
Amid European calls for speech crackdown, social media companies introduce tool for easier deletions.
A level of snooping every autocrat in the world will admire.
The president-elect reserves the right to torture terrorism suspects for revenge.
The president-elect has said he wants to continue with strikes against terrorists, but to what degree?
The would-be secretary of state brags about providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Non-interventionism needs a voice in 2017 and beyond.
Lawsuit settlement over city's unwarranted snooping of Muslims temporarily rejected.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi wrote best-selling book about torture, imprisonment, and survival.
Podesta leak acknowledges her 'instincts' are to accept law enforcement's claims on encryption access and surveillance.
Law criminalizes anything done in preparation for attack-including behavior that is normally legal.
Last night Trump's foreign policy mouth seemed in some cases to be outrunning his mind, making a strict interpretation of his meaning difficult.
'No fly, no buy' rears its unconstitutional head at the debate.
Another case where calls for 'mass snooping' ignore other avenues for information.
Just hours after New York bombing suspect was caught, Trump was already bemoaning how slowly the wheels of justice are turning.
Two words from a government official to dismiss decades of expertise on encryption.
Don't be spooked by exaggerated view of threats against the U.S.
Forget stories of restrictive laws; predators have easy access to weapons, but honest people can get into trouble for defending themselves.
But he doesn't want to engage in nation-building!
