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UK surveillance program could expose private lives RAPHAEL SATTER Published: Today A webcam overlooks a client checking her email at an Internet cafe in north London on Friday, May 18, 2012. Experts say Britain's proposed new surveillance program will gather so much data that spooks won't have to read Britons' messages to guess at what they're up to. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter) LONDON (AP) - British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."But experts say the government's proposed new surveillance program will gather so much data that spooks won't have to read your messages to guess what you're up to.The U.K. Home Office stresses it won't be reading the content of every Britons' communications, saying the data it seeks "is NOT the content ... Continue reading →

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Obama administration Friday morning continued its headlong attack on the right of reporters to protect their confidential sources in leak investigations. Before a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a Department of Justice lawyer argued that New York Times reporter James Risen should be forced to testify in the trial of former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, who is charged with leaking classified information to Risen about a botched plot against the Iranian government. Rather than arguing the specifics of the case, DOJ appellate lawyer Robert A. Parker asserted that there is no reporter's privilege when a journalist receives an illegal leak of national security secrets. When Judge Robert Gregory asked Parker to explain why the public's interest in a ... Continue reading →

Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away. The revamp, the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979, also eliminates a requirement that local responders always practice for a release of radiation. At least four years in the works, the changes appear to clash with more recent lessons of last year's reactor crisis in Japan. Under the new rules, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which run the program together, have added one new exercise: More than a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, state and community police will ... Continue reading →