Wyden cites contradiction in eavesdropping answer
Updated: June 11, 2013 1:20PM WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the staunchest critics of government surveillance programs said Tuesday that the national intelligence director did not give him a straight...
View Article>Senator says intel chief was not forthcoming
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the staunchest critics of government surveillance programs said Tuesday that the national intelligence director did not give him a straight answer last March when he asked...
View ArticleSenator says intel chief was not forthcoming
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the staunchest critics of government surveillance programs said Tuesday that the national intelligence director did not give him a straight answer last March when he asked...
View ArticleNSA director tells Congress that programs disrupted dozens of attacks
Washington • The director of the National Security Agency said Wednesday that once-secret surveillance programs disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks, explicitly describing for Congress how the...
View ArticleSenator says program goes deeper than believed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading Republican senator on Tuesday described controversial U.S. spy programs as looking far deeper into Americans' phone records than the Obama administration has been willing...
View ArticleLawmakers Voice Concern Over Surveillance Programs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers voiced their confusion and concern, and some called for the end of sweeping surveillance programs by U.S. spy agencies after receiving an unusual briefing on the...
View ArticleNSA Spying Data 'Thwarted Dozens Of Attacks'
12 June 2013, 23:30 NSA Spying Data 'Thwarted Dozens Of Attacks' Tweet Secret US surveillance of phone and internet records has thwarted dozens of potential terror attacks, the head of the National...
View ArticleNSA surveillance: anger mounts in Congress at 'spying on Americans'
Anger was mounting in Congress on Tuesday night as politicians, briefed for the first time after revelations about the government's surveillance dragnet, vowed to rein in a system that one said...
View ArticleIntelligence Leak Puts Growing Pressure on US Officials
WASHINGTON, June 12 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the US National Security Agency (NSA) told a congressional committee Wednesday that he knows of “no way” former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could tap...
View ArticleUS congressmen call for end to surveillance programs
Lawmakers voiced their confusion and concern, and some called for the end of sweeping surveillance programs by US spy agencies after receiving an unusual briefing on the government’s years-long...
View ArticleNSA chief says data disrupted 'dozens' of plots
The head of the US electronic spying agency has defended the massive surveillance programmes newly revealed by a former intelligence worker. In a US Senate hearing, National Security...
View ArticleIntelligence officials brief Congress on surveillance programs
WASHINGTON - Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government's years-long...
View ArticleCongress briefed on US surveillance programs
WASHINGTON -- Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government's years-long...
View ArticleIntelligence officials tell reps spy programs necessary to protect U.S.
Updated: June 12, 2013 2:44AM WASHINGTON — Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the...
View ArticleLawmakers concerned over US surveillance programs
Photos WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The former spy agency contractor who fled to Hong Kong to leak U.S. secrets said he's not there to hide from justice and has faith in "the courts and people of Hong Kong to...
View ArticleNSA director: Programs disrupted dozens of terror attacks
WASHINGTON — The director of the National Security Agency says surveillance programs have disrupted or helped disrupt dozens of terrorist attacks. NSA director Keith Alexander defended the programs at...
View ArticleNSA director: Programs disrupted dozens of attacks
Photos WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The director of the National Security Agency said Wednesday that once-secret surveillance programs disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks, explicitly describing for Congress...
View ArticleInternet and phone surveillance programs have disrupted dozens of attacks,...
WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Security Agency said Wednesday that once-secret surveillance programs disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks, explicitly describing for Congress how the...
View ArticleUS spy data 'prevented attacks'
The US electronic spying chief has said massive surveillance programmes newly revealed by an ex-intelligence worker had disrupted dozens of terror plots. In a US Senate hearing, National Security...
View ArticleClassified leaks about NSA have already prompted terrorists to change...
WASHINGTON -- Two senior Republican lawmakers said Thursday that terrorists are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U.S. data gathering programs, but they offered no details....
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