The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast surveillance powers adopted in the wake of September 11, turns a decade old Wednesday. Yet the law seemingly is being invoked far more to t
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Who thought lawyers could be so kind? A federal appeals court judge, who as a Justice Department lawyer signed off on internal memos authorizing waterboarding, has received $3.4 million in free leg
Twenty-five years ago Friday, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that for the first time provided Americans with sweeping digital-privacy protections.
The law came at a time when e-ma
The Obama administration publicly admonished China on Wednesday for its vast online censorship policies, for the first time officially complaining that blocking U.S.-based internet sites creates &#