Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden was the first to leak information about the NSA’s widespread domestic surveillance operations.

Vice President Mike Pence says the United States is weighing its response to an attack on a Saudi oil plant; President Donald Trump said the U.S. has reached a trade deal with Japan; The Department of Justice is suing Edward Snowden over his new book; And reporters for The New York Times say an editor took out an important detail in an accusation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

British intelligence services breached people’s basic right to privacy with a mass surveillance operation that was brought to light by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Sept. 13.

A source said during the summer of 2015, an inspector general for the CIA deleted the uploaded computer file—then accidentally destroyed a disk containing it.

Even though the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records has ended, calls and emails are still being swept up by U.S. surveillance work targeting foreigners. Congress is making a renewed push to find out how many.