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US: No plans to end broad surveillance program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration considered whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified surveillance secrets while it defended the broad U.S. spy program that it says keeps America safe from terrorists. Facing a...Tags: Jarmes R. Clapper, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Berlin (Germany), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency
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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as more details emerged from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have...
Tags: Islam, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Central Intelligence Agency
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Sen Coats: Person may have acted alone in Boston bombing
We do not who is responsible for the bombings at the Boston Marathon, but through an Indiana senator, we are getting an idea of what investigators think may have happened. Republican Dan Coats is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That...
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NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying...Tags: Rand Paul, Unrest, Conflicts and War, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Mark Udall, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSA
WASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped design a system to sort through the digital data the agency was sucking up in the exploding universe of bits and...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Jarmes R. Clapper, Unrest, Conflicts and War, PRISM (surveillance program), Lawyers
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Central Intelligence Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Saxby Chambliss
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Pitiful story of boy's slaying should melt 'cold' hearts
"The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner," said Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Maureen O'Brien, speaking last week to reporters about the recent stabbing death of a 14-year-old River Grove youth, allegedly at the...Tags: Jarmes R. Clapper, River Grove, Autism, Ron Wyden, Behavioral Conditions
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...
Tags: Jarmes R. Clapper, Unrest, Conflicts and War, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Joe Biden, Saxby Chambliss
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U.S. Senator Feinstein eyes limits to NSA contractors
ReutersWASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Thursday that Congress would consider legislation to limit government contractors' access to certain classified information. "We will...Tags: Government, National Government, U.S. Congress, Politics, National Security Agency
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NSA aftershocks: Leak inspires lawsuit, letters of protest
WASHINGTON — The massive leaks about U.S. spying systems caused sharp political and legal aftershocks Tuesday as the Justice Department prepared to file criminal charges against Edward Snowden, a government contractor who has publicly admitted...
Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Robert Mueller, Eric Holder, Elections, National Government
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Surveillance thwarted attack on Danish newspaper: White House
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's surveillance of phone and Internet communications led to the 2009 arrest of a Chicago man who was planning to bomb a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, the White House said on...Tags: Transportation, Rand Paul, Jyllands-Posten (newspaper), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Dianne Feinstein
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WRAPUP 1-FBI says U.S. will hold Snowden responsible for NSA leaks
Reuters* Mueller says "all necessary steps" being taken against Snowden * Tells Congress surveillance reports hurt national security * Rand Paul urges Americans to join class-action lawsuit By David Ingram and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters)...Tags: Loretta Sanchez, Rand Paul, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Robert Mueller, Mike J. Rogers
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