national security agency

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

A few years from now, President Obama may have regrets about not having kept a sufficient degree of separation between operational and informational functions of the intelligence agencies under his control. Beginning with Truman, almost every president has pushed the intelligence community to conduct more and more covert operations. Most of them regretted having done so, including Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan.

Howard County's wastewater arrangement with NSA is a win-win for taxpayers and not a missed opportunity to rein in surveillance

Federal prosecutors are calling for up to a decade in prison for the Howard County resident who became the youngest person ever charged in a terrorism case, arguing that the Pakistani immigrant "linked up with truly dangerous people."

NSA, drones signal coming assault on our freedoms

NSA spying encourages right conduct

NSA spying is unconstitutional

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.

This is the start of a New Year and I decided to write about renewing old acquaintances. What brought this subject to mind is my renewal of friendship with a resident of Morningside Assisted Living in Laurel, where I do a book club every two weeks. I stop and see her after book club, as she waits to enter the dining room for dinner. It turns out that this resident, whose name is Rosa, is someone I EOD'ed (entered on duty) with at the National Security Agency in November 1965. It was hard for me

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

This is the start of a New Year and I decided to write about renewing old acquaintances.

With all the discussion of surveillance, meta-data and phone taps over the past few weeks, I can't help thinking of my own experience as a surveillee back in the 1970s when cruder methods were used. All of the reassurances that everything will be fine just doesn't work for me.

The NSA is doing the job we asked it to

After decades of writing about television and media, this is the year that I have lost journalistic faith in two TV news institutions in which I have long believed: 60 Minutes and CNN.

Three openly gay athletes are among those who will represent the United States in Russia. Notably absent: Obama, his wife, or Vice President Joe Biden.

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

President Obama seems to open to some curbs on intelligence gathering, but it's unclear how effective his reforms will be.

O'Malley and Brown have chosen to ignore the obvious problems with the Affordable Care Act

A recap of the Dec. 12 episode of 'Scandal,' as more truths about Olivia's mom and dad emerge

Time magazine named Pope Francis its Person of the Year Wednesday, in part citing his comments on "homosexuality".

U.S. has violated Constitution in drone strikes against Pakistan and other countries

John Kinnaman III, a retired National Security Agency intelligence analyst and an Olympics enthusiast, died Nov. 16 of lung cancer at Casey House Hospice in Rockville. He was 74.

Crony capitalism flawed Obamacare rollout

As they rushed toward a suburban Utah home with guns drawn, agents knew they were on to a significant figure in the Silk Road online drug bazaar — a major cocaine dealer, perhaps.

Laurel Shopping Center was a pioneer in local retail, and the men behind its development were visionaries who turned a then-radical idea into a successful enterprise that helped change the face of retail in the Baltimore/Washington area.

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

The NSA is totally out of touch about its surveillance policies.

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.

European leaders express outrage over U.S. spying, but maybe they're just jealous.

In order to slow down this unbuilt airplane that Superintendent Dance talked about, I am introducing three bills, two that will be local for Baltimore and Harford Counties, and one state- wide version. All three create a moratorium or temporary termination of the Common Core program.

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.

When Dan and Margo Duesterhaus moved into their Ellicott City home 12 years ago, the solar power movement was still more concept than reality. But the couple had always been environmentally conscious, and they put their ideals into action.

On Saturday morning, under a blistering sun, demonstrators gathered on the Gorman Road Interstate 95 overpass in North Laurel, waving American flags and holding up signs to traffic in the north and southbound lanes.