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... JUDY WOODRUFF: On Capitol Hill, we have heard serious concerns raised by Republicans and calls from Democrats for a special counsel to investigate the Russia story. We get reaction now to Mr. Trump's firing of James Comey from Hillary Clinton's vice presidential nominee. He's the Democratic ...
... Democrats lost a presidential election that many thought was in the bag, and Republicans maintained control of Congress. The losses sparked a period of soul-searching in Democratic Party establishment circles. But it also energized grassroots activists around issues like immigration, women’s and civil rights and criminal justice. Registered ...
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday blocked an expansion of the government's power to investigate suspected terrorists, a victory for civil libertarians and privacy advocates emboldened after a National Security Agency contractor's revelations forced changes to surveillance of Americans. Senior Republicans had pressed for allowing the FBI to obtain ...
... Journalist: The country came together, I think, in this huge cry of joy. I went to the press conference where she appeared publicly with him for the first time, and there's a room packed full of journalists all in tears, myself included, because she represented so much for us ...
... USA Freedom Act becomes law, the business records provision and the roving wiretap authority would return immediately. The NSA would resume collecting American telephone records for a six-month period while shifting to a system of searching phone company records case by case. If no agreement is reached, all the ...
... do about this. JUDY WOODRUFF: And, in fact, the president said, David, this week, the country -- we as a country have to do some soul-searching. DAVID BROOKS: Yes. Well, I would agree with soul searching. I disagree with indifference. And so I do think we -- the problem is not ...
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders for the first time since Republicans took control of the new Congress. So far, both sides are taking hard-line postures.
Dissenters within the National Security Agency, led by a senior agency executive, warned in 2009 that the program to secretly collect American phone records wasn't providing enough intelligence to justify the backlash it would cause if revealed, current and former intelligence officials say.
WASHINGTON — For months, CIA Director John Brennan stood firm in his insistence that the CIA had little to be ashamed of after searching the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee. His defiant posture quickly collapsed after a devastating report by his own inspector general sided against the CIA on each key point of the...
Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device. Is it a critical tool for a criminal or is it an American's virtual home?
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