Article from the CATO institute about the past NSA abuses that have been caught linking it to the current situation. This article presents a very bleak future for privacy.

Article from "The Hill" documenting certain abuses admitted to by the chief of the NSA. This article gives just one example of why something like this is just too much power for humans to have.

President Obama has recently made a statement regarding proposed reforms to the government surveillance programs U.S. citizens recently became aware of. Among the things proposed are reforms to section 215 of The Patriot Act which grants a lot of power to override the constitution to the executive branch. The author contends that these proposed reforms could go either way and that is why they are "vague".

This article highlights a recent release of information from the NSA regarding the number of personal e-mails they "inadvertently" ended up collecting through a mistake. According to The Washington Post during a three year period the NSA collected up to 56,000 personal e-mails with no links to terrorism whatsoever. The article concludes stating that these findings were brought to light because of several different lawsuits currently levied against the NSA for violating personal privacy rights.

This article talks about the willingness of the masses to give up certain personal freedoms when they believe a threat is imminent.

In depth description of The Patriot Act and it's ability to overreach the United States Constitution.

Comparison of America's current threat conditioned response to loss of personal freedoms to the Japanese internment camps of World War Two.

Article reflecting on the human rights opposition homosexuals are affected by in other countries. May give some help in showing the progressive nature of the Gay rights movement here in America.

This article talks about the effects of the dominant population of a country being one religion and the way Europeans view religion. These contrasting viewpoints may be useful in writing a paper on loss of religious freedoms or why religious freedoms sometimes infringe on others personal freedoms.

Good article on how religion effects politics. Could be useful in a paper about that topic.

Article about the Fourth Amendments protections and the loss of those protections slowly through legislation.

In detail description of the laws that govern the intelligence gathered on American citizens conversing with citizens of foreign nations. Could be used in a paper about the new intrusions into our personal correspondence.

This article is about the programs exposed by the NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the effects it has had on citizens of the European Union.

A look at the public's view on search and seizure and what our laws protect us from. This article also compares the European approach and defines clearly the Fourth Amendment.