National Security and Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON - Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) has sent a letter to the leadership of the House Oversight Committee requesting a full investigation into the significant vulnerability that has been identified in the global mobile network that allows hackers to monitor callers' conversations, messages and location data with relative ease.

The full text of Mr. Lieu's letter can be found here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 17, 2016

By BEN NORTON

Salon 

For almost a year, a Saudi-led coalition of Middle Eastern countries, backed and armed by the U.S. and U.K., has been bombing Yemen, the poorest country in the region. Saudi Arabia hopes to destroy Yemeni rebel groups such as the Houthis, and has bombed hospitals, homes, schools and even a refugee camp in the process.

March 23, 2016

By DUSTIN VOLZ

Reuters

A Democratic and a Republican congressmen have asked the National Security Agency to halt a reported plan to share more raw intelligence data with other federal agencies, warning the policy shift would be “unconstitutional and dangerous,” according to a letter seen by Reuters.