Twenty-eight contract scientists, engineers and other workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have filed a suit claiming that newly instituted security checks invade their privacy.
The Bush administration is apparently relying on the state secrets privilege in a motion seeking dismissal of a lawsuit claiming a Belgian banking cooperative gave customers’ records to the United…
The government is conducting 73 criminal investigations of contract fraud and bribery in the delivery of weapons and supplies to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, the New…
A federal appeals court has granted en banc review in a case challenging the indefinite military detention of a civilian who is suspected of terrorist ties.
Ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of foreign aid workers, the Bush administration is about to require charitable and nonprofit organizations that receive money from a government agency to provide detailed personal…
The nation’s top intelligence official has revealed new details about the government’s terrorism wiretap programs in an interview with the El Paso Times.
A law professor argues that search warrants are “utterly beside the point” when the object is to detect terrorism schemes rather than to gather evidence against a suspect.
The nation’s largest group of behavioral experts ruled on Sunday that its members cannot be associated with interrogation techniques that the government has used on terrorism detainees.
A court that secretly decides government wiretap requests in terrorism cases is considering a motion to release its recent classified rulings limiting certain kinds of government surveillance.
Lawmakers may have given the government more authority to search Americans than they realized when they quickly passed a terrorism wiretap law before the end of the congressional session.