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The Justice Department doesn’t always bring the hammer down on financial institutions accused of wrongdoing because “innocent people” can suffer from the prosecution attempts, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday.
The NSA performed an unknown number of warrantless searches on the phone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens, according to a letter penned by a top intelligence boss.
If the Department of Justice (DOJ) has its way, federal search warrants could soon allow law enforcement officials to hack into the computers of individuals suspected of various crimes.
Government officials didn’t understand a massive phone surveillance program they were tasked with overseeing, the nation’s top spy boss admitted in court documents de-classified on Friday.
The NSA will receive bulk call records from American telephone companies for another 90 days under what is believed to be the final extension of such a request by the FISA Court.
Public Radio International will stop distributing the one-hour radio program “This American Life” this summer.
Broadcaster Media General announced on Friday that it will acquire LIN Media for $1.6 billion in cash and stock, creating the second-largest local television company in the United States.
The government of Qatar plans to launch a new pan-Arab satellite news channel that would counter news programming offered by Al Jazeera, according to a new report.
A web video purporting to show a “photobomb” on Los Angeles television is most certainly a fake, despite reports published by Mediaite and TheBlaze on Friday.
A lawyer has filed a petition against the Reuters news agency for allegedly threatening national security when it reported a false terror threat linked to a fake Twitter account last week.
