national security

While GOP task forces are talking about national security, jobs and health care, the House floor has largely been turned over to the obscure and the arcane.

Declaring that strong encryption is essential to the nation's security, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a tech industry audience Wednesday that he's "not a believer in back doors," or encryption programs that leave openings for outsiders to read coded files.

The top American commander in Afghanistan faces skeptical lawmakers amid concerns that worsening security conditions demand a greater number of U.S. forces to ensure the gains made in the war-torn country since 2001 aren't lost.

Syrian refugees are already living in NJ, but Former Navy SEAL and FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam says there's good reason to not want more living here.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- The FBI has identified a man fatally shot at a National Security Agency gate after disobeying orders from guards there.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A firefight erupted Monday when two people in a car tried to ram a National Security Agency gate at Fort Meade, killing at least one person, according to preliminary reports cited by two U.S. officials.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond its legal boundaries and then deceiving the nation with narratives of useful interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- AT&T Mobility says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its smartphones.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed into law legislation that authorizes spending of $564 million over five years for the U.S. intelligence community and expands protections for intelligence agency whistleblowers against retaliation.

BERLIN (AP) -- German prosecutors have opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone by the U.S. National Security Agency, officials said Wednesday, in a move that could again complicate diplomatic relations between the two allies.