The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Barton Gellman Read Quote
NSA surveillance is a complex subject – legally, technically and operationally. Barton Gellman Read Quote
The NSA is forbidden to ‘target’ American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. Barton Gellman Read Quote
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably – with certainty – ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. Barton Gellman Read Quote
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Obama’s ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization. Barton Gellman Read Quote
I’m a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. Barton Gellman Read Quote
