James Bamford
Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.
Twitter handle: @jeffmason1
Commentary: Don't be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails
Last summer, cyber investigators plowing through the thousands of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee uncovered a clue.
Commentary: How ‘Snowden’ the movie could help win a pardon for Snowden the man
The days leading up to last Friday’s release of director Oliver Stone’s "Snowden" looked like one long movie trailer.
Commentary: Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA
In the summer of 1972, state-of-the-art campaign spying consisted of amateur burglars, armed with duct tape and microphones, penetrating the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Today, amateur burglars have been replaced by cyberspies, who penetrated the DNC armed with computers and sophisticated hacking tools.
Commentary:The world's best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia
National attention is focused on Russian eavesdroppers’ possible targeting of U.S. presidential candidates and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Yet, leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents show that the Obama administration has long been involved in major bugging operations against the election campaigns — and the presidents — of even its closest allies.
NSA: Listening to everyone - except oversight
For 35 years the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has been the judicial equivalent of a stellar black hole — everything goes in but nothing is allowed to escape.
Column: Building America's secret surveillance state - James Bamford
"God we trust," goes an old National Security Agency joke. "All others we monitor.
Column: Building America's secret surveillance state
"God we trust," goes an old National Security Agency joke. "All others we monitor.
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