WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of whistleblowers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers

    Former NSA analyst who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in Ramparts magazine in 1971. [13] At the time, the NSA was an ultra secretive scarcely known organization. Because of the Fellwock revelations, the U.S. Senate Church Committee introduced successful legislation to stop NSA spying on American ...

  3. Edward Snowden - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

    Edward Joseph Snowden (Russian: Эдвард Джозеф Сноуден, born June 21, 1983) is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022. In 2013, while working as a government ...

  4. Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_Suspicious...

    The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) is a program of the United States government used to collect and share reports of suspicious activity by people in the United States. [1][2] The Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) builds on what law enforcement and other agencies have been doing for years — gathering information ...

  5. U.S. Senate report on CIA torture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_report_on_CIA...

    The U.S. Senate Report on CIA Detention Interrogation Program that details the use of torture during CIA detention and interrogation. The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program [1] is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and ...

  6. National Security Agency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

    The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a ...

  7. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of the U.S Justice Department was created in 1979 to identify and expel, from the United States, those who assisted Nazis in persecuting "any person because of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion." [1] This involved gathering, verifying, and presenting in court eyewitness and ...

  8. NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless...

    v. t. e. NSA warrantless surveillance — also commonly referred to as " warrantless-wiretapping " or " -wiretaps " — was the surveillance of persons within the United States, including U.S. citizens, during the collection of notionally foreign intelligence by the National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program. [1]

  9. Threatening government officials of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_government...

    Law. v. t. e. In the United States, threatening government officials is a felony under federal law. Threatening the president of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871, punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service. [1] Threatening other officials is a Class D or C felony ...