USA Freedom Act

On April 30, the House Judiciary Committee will take up a warmed-over version of last year’s USA Freedom Act. The committee has offered a rather optimistic claim of the surveillance…

This morning, Senator Patrick Leahy released a new version of the USA Freedom Act, a bill intended to reform NSA surveillance following Edward Snowden’s revelations that the…

This morning, Senator Leahy (D-Vt) introduced an updated version of the USA FREEDOM Act (full text).  If you recall, in May, the House passed a version of the USA FREEDOM Act…

When the House passed the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361) in May,  both Members and the administration announced that it would end bulk collection of metadata about Americans’…

Happening now the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is holding an open hearing on the House passed USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361). For previous reaction to the House…

[Editor’s Note: Just Security has been closely following the congressional proposals, including the USA FREEDOM Act, introduced in recent months aimed to curb the administration’s surveillance authorities.…

The initially promising USA Freedom Act could have ended the previously secret government practices of collecting Americans’ calling records, internet transactional information…

Today starting at 1pm, the House Judiciary Committee is beginning its markup of the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361), including the Manager’s Amendment about which Jennifer…

Yesterday, the stagnant USA Freedom Act started to move through the U.S. House of Representatives, starting with a Manager’s Amendment to the bill. According to its drafters,…

While the continued government shutdown has sidelined an estimated 800,000 federal employees and resulted in the cancellation of President Obama’s trip to Asia this weekend,…