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Warrantless wiretaps and other NSA constitutional breaches must be mended

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the annual Forrestal Lecture at the Naval Academy on Tuesday afternoon as part of a foreign affairs conference.

Dan McCall sells a lot of T-shirts, coffee cups and other gear that tweak the government, so his products parodying the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were pretty typical fare. Until the cease-and-desist letters hit.

A look at the growing number of TV series featuring spies

Reforming the NSA

Walt Townshend has never been a butcher, a baker or a bail bondsman. But if you know him, you know that he's aligned, almost intuitively, with people in virtually every profession. The president and CEO of the Laurel-based Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber operates with open arms, open mind, open heart.

NSA reforms are a step in the right direction but probably don't go far enough

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, plans to introduce bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone and email records.

Snowden should be tried for treason

Sen. Dianne Feinstein didn't mind when the intelligence community was violating the privacy of ordinary people.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger has been a staunch defender of U.S. intelligence practices, so his acknowledgment of the need for NSA reform demands attention.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is proposing to end the bulk collection of telephone data by the National Security Agency — the program at the center of the controversy over the reach of government spying.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, who has established himself as an authority on intelligence issues in Congress, will face a Democratic primary in June from an opponent who has spent his career working in the intel community.

Arthur Turco had defended members of the Black Panther Party across the country, but it was in Baltimore that he would be arrested and jailed — on charges that he and members of the militant group in 1969 had killed a suspected police informant within their ranks.

On Sept. 12, 2001 senior managers and technical experts crammed into the narrow and stuffy conference room of the National Security Agency's Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) director. Each was trying to make sense of what had just happened the previous morning when two jets slammed into the World Trade Center in New York. The obvious questions were: Who had done this? How could we lift the spirits of the demoralized counterterrorism division? And more importantly, how could we find and track the

House bill takes aim at NSA data collection

Two news websites Monday published images of the three of the most secrective U.S. agencies including the Maryland-based National Security Agency.

Reports that Moscow violated a landmark 1987 arms treaty could put U.S.-Russian relations back in the deep freeze

Business e-end in Frederick carves niche with federal government and contractors

Barbara Mikulski: We must review and reform the National Security Agency (NSA), but we cannot reject the mission of the NSA, nor the men and women who work there.

President Obama proposed new safeguards for the government's vast surveillance of communications in the U.S. and abroad, adding additional judicial review and disclosure requirements, but largely leaving in place programs that he said were needed to "remain vigilant in the face of threats."

Maryland legislators will consider a package of laws to curb electronic surveillance by police, requiring a search warrant to use drones, email, cell phone towers or license plate readers to track people.

Return NSA leaker Edward Snowden to the U.S. for trial

Howard County has entered an unusual agreement to supply treated waste water to cool a massive new computer center being built by the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. But NSA critics see an opportunity to disrupt the agency's increasingly controversial surveillance activities.

How can President Obama defend NSA spying on U.S. citizens?

A federal judge was right to take issue with the idea that the government can respect citizens' privacy rights at the same time it is busy violating them

The NSA has broken our social compact

Putting limits on the agency capacity to spy on Americans may not be as easy as it sounds

In a public appearance in Baltimore on Thursday, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander forcefully defended surveillance methods that have come under scrutiny this year but acknowledged that some of them may need adjustments.

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

A Johns Hopkins University cryptography professor — who gained media attention when university officials told him to take down a blog post he wrote about National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden — says he declined an invitation this week to join journalists and others reviewing the classified NSA documents.

Matthew Green, the Johns Hopkins cryptography professor who was ordered to remove from university servers a blog post about the National Security Agency's covert surveillance efforts, has concluded that it was all a "big misunderstanding."

Universities across the country perform classified work for the federal government, balancing secrecy with academic freedom