The NSA says it queried its massive phone phone call records for 248 people in the US during 2013.

The NSA makes up its own meanings for everyday words, so we can't assume this statement means what it seems to mean. If we knew all the facts, the number of people in the US that we would say they looked at the phone records of could be up to 248 million, for all we know.

Surveillance Lessons from 1971 Still Resonate Today.

Obama's lawyers cited the global-war law (the Authorization for Use of Military Force) as an excuse for killing al-Awlaki.

US citizens: call on Obama to end Navy sonar training exercises in areas where they kill whales.

US citizens: call on your senators to oppose the bill to stop the EPA from extending the Clean Water Act to more waterways.