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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: National Security Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Department of Defense
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To Syria's loyalist stronghold of Tartus, victory seems imminent
TARTUS, Syria — War may be ravaging much of Syria, but there is no sign of conflict on bustling streets here, where diners wearing designer sunglasses order freshly caught fish at seaside cafes and gaze out on a palm-fringed expanse resembling a...
Tags: Armed Forces, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts
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Offensive reported on key Syrian city of Aleppo
Syrian government forces backed by Hezbollah fighters have begun an offensive near the once-commercial city of Aleppo to cut off the rebels’ supply line from Turkey and attempt to regain control of the north. It comes a week after the government...
Tags: Bombings, Armed Forces, Suicide, Turkey, Istanbul (Turkey)
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Syrian rebels reportedly raid Shiite village
BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels burned homes and killed civilians in a sectarian rampage targeting Shiite Muslims in a village in eastern Syria, activists and officials said Wednesday. The rebel attack on Hatla, in eastern Deir Elzur province, resulted in...Tags: Research, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam
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Most Americans supportive of government phone tracking, poll says
News that the government has amassed records on nearly all telephone calls in the United States for at least seven years and has the ability to tap into Internet traffic has generated little reaction from the public so far, according to new polling data...
Tags: Email, National Security Agency, PRISM (surveillance program), Computer Networking and Internet, Elections
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NSA contract analyst says he leaked surveillance documents
WASHINGTON — Calling America's spying capabilities "horrifying," a 29-year-old former CIA employee revealed himself Sunday as the primary source of unauthorized disclosures of highly classified U.S. telephone and Internet surveillance systems that...
Tags: Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Mark Udall, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dianne Feinstein
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Ex-CIA staffer was source of leak on NSA surveillance, Guardian says
WASHINGTON — The Guardian, the British newspaper that revealed a string of top-secret U.S. intelligence systems and programs, identified the source of the disclosures as a former 29-year-old CIA technical staff member who has worked at the...
Tags: National Security Agency, Hong Kong, State of the Union Address, Barack Obama, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Republicans oppose, Democrats support NSA surveillance, poll says
A majority of Americans oppose National Security Agency programs using records gathered from telecom and Internet companies, according to a poll released Wednesday. Fifty-three percent told Gallup they disagree with federal efforts to “compile...
Tags: National Security Agency, Loretta Sanchez, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Washington Post
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Intelligence chief acknowledges surveillance program
WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence official formally acknowledged the Internet surveillance program code-named PRISM on Saturday, saying it had obtained foreign intelligence information from U.S. Internet companies under laws passed by...
Tags: National Security Agency, Jarmes R. Clapper, Software Industry, Computer Networking and Internet, PRISM (surveillance program)
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Stay calm and let the NSA carry on
After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn't happened. We haven't escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, National Security Agency, Boston Marathon, Pakistan, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Reactions to NSA surveillance: from outrage to cheerleading
This week's riveting scoops in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the data-grabbing driftnet the National Security Agency has cast over the phone networks and the Internet drew hostile fire from four of the country's five largest newspapers, and a...
Tags: National Security Agency, Christi Parsons, Barack Obama, Mining, Government
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Obama defends NSA surveillance programs in California stop
SAN JOSE — President Obama said Friday that the government is not listening to the phone calls and reading the emails of Americans, but warned that the country “can’t have 100% security” and still have “100% privacy.”...
Tags: National Security Agency, Judges, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government
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