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A US Department of Justice spokesperson on Friday confirmed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the NSA domestic surveillance program at the request ...

Legal authorities regarding warrantless surveillance of US persons, memo from Jeffrey H. Smith, former General Counsel of the CIA and a former General Counsel of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, to the Members of the US House Permanent Select...

US Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine has forwarded a request to investigate President Bush’s authorization of National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping on US residents to the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, citing...

On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress, January 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter as published in...

Judges who serve on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) met with officials from the Department of Justice Monday for a closed-door briefing on the president's decision to allow warrantless domestic eavesdropping [JURIST news...

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that recent national security issues involving controversial exercises of executive power should encourage senators to carefully analyze Judge Samuel Alito's perspectives on executive authority, security and...

US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee , told President Bush in a letter Wednesday that the White House violated the National Security Act when it withheld information pertaining...

US Vice President Dick Cheney offered a forceful defense of the NSA warrantless surveillance program in use since the September 11 terrorist attacks in an address to a Heritage Foundation audience...

In the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency expanded its domestic surveillance program without formal authorization from President Bush, documents released Tuesday revealed. According to an October 2001 letter ...

AP is reporting that the US Department of Justice has begun an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic surveillance program first disclosed in a New York Times article...