“Congress must fix this before considering any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this year,” said one advocate. Privacy advocates on Wednesday said testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray at a U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing offers the latest evidence that Congress must take action to keep the government from […]
Anchorage police continue to investigate a double shooting that occurred on Muldoon on April 15th, and have released an image from surveillance cameras of a possible witness to the incident. The incident was reported to APD at 2:17 am on April 15th concerning a “large physical fight” in the Cabin Tavern parking lot on Muldoon. […]
The massive collection of telephone data by the clandestine U.S. National Security Agency to thwart terrorist attacks has been halted in a Washington legislative standoff, but a reformed version of the surveillance could be renewed in the coming days. The spy agency lost the legal authority to collect telephone records Sunday at midnight when the […]
A bill that would have ended the U.S. government’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was defeated in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 58-42 to move the bill to a formal debate, falling two votes short of the 60 required. The bill, dubbed the U.S.A. Freedom Act, would have required the National […]