Defense

Group backs Senate renewal of anti-terrorism law

Documents recently made public show FBI lawyers are investigating 13 cases of surveillance abuses under USA PATRIOT Act.

Defense

Compromise cuts spending for airline screening system

Bill would provide $56.7 million for Secure Flight in fiscal 2006.

News

Homeland Security's privacy chief resigns

Nuala O'Connor Kelly will leave the agency on Friday.

Defense

Privacy, security experts urge delay of passenger screening system

TSA said it plans to conduct live tests at the end of the year.

Defense

DoD employees barred from testifying about terrorist data-mining effort

Military intelligence unit destroyed information linking hijackers to convicted terrorists before sharing it with federal law enforcement agencies.

Defense

Alaskans sue security agency to stop data dump

Passengers seek to keep TSA from destroying personal information it collected in order to test screening system.

Defense

Transportation agency in data flap with Alaskans

Group alleges agency may have destroyed personal travel records.

Tech

FBI tech upgrade still more than three years away

Bureau spent $170 million on it's defunct Virtual Case File system.

Tech

Justice budget focused on using info to combat terrorism

More than $500 million of fiscal 2006 budget request targeted to information technology projects.

Tech

Senators grill FBI chief over failed Virtual Case File system

Subcommittee chairman says Congress may play larger role in overseeing agency's information systems overhaul.

News

Fight over patent fee diversion drags on

Lawsuit alleges congressional practice is pushing Patent and Trademark Office to a point of operational crisis.

Defense

Bush administration urged to delay launch of passenger screening system

Secure Flight not ready for deployment, critics say.