Democracy Now! May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

There is growing concern over how easy it has become to kill someone under the Obama administration's drone strike policy. The Senate is closer to renewing controversial measures that critics say would allow the emails and phone calls of US citizens to be monitored without a warrant. Voters are heading to the polls for the second day in Egypt's first competitive presidential election following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak 15 months ago. Plus headlines, and more.

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is a United States law which prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of "foreign intelligence information" between "foreign powers" and "agents of foreign powers". The law does not appl... Explore this topic

National Security Agency

The National Security Agency is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and informa... Explore this topic

John Brennan

John Owen Brennan is Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; officially his title was Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. His ... Explore this topic

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The stated aim of the bill is to help the U.S gove... Explore this topic

United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the federal government of the United States who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislati... Explore this topic

US Government

The government of the United States of America is the federal government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that constitute the United States, as well as one capitol district, and several other territories. The federal government is composed of three distinct branc... Explore this topic

NSA electronic surveillance program

An electronic surveillance program was implemented by the National Security Agency of the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. It was part of the President's Surveillance Program, which was in turn conducted under the overall umbrella of the War on Ter... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capi... Explore this topic

Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting. Surveillance is therefore an ambiguous practice, sometimes creating positive effects, at other times... Explore this topic

American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litig... Explore this topic

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