There are many rights that Americans cannot find written down in the Constitution. That's why we hire nine people for life to interpret it for us - it's a tricky document, and everybody has his or her ...

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency stepped up its efforts to collect intelligence domestically by filtering millions of phone conversations and e-mail messages.

Most Americans probably do not know what the NSA is. Among those who do, a great percentage likely have only a vague sense of what the National Security Agency actually does, with little knowledge of ...

In the annals of U.S. espionage, there are few groups more secretive than the National Security Agency (NSA), the covert Defense Department organization that illegally tapped the phones of U.S.