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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: Media Industry, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Politics, National Security, Social Media
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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: The Washington Post, Elections, Terrorism, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Republicans oppose, Democrats support NSA surveillance, poll finds
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: Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Parties and Movements, Loretta Sanchez
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NSA surveillance puts George Orwell's '1984' on bestseller lists
Big Brother is watching. And people are reading. Thanks to the ongoing National Security Administration surveillance scandal, George Orwell's "1984" is enjoying a surge in popularity, landing at No. 4 on Amazon's list of "Movers and Shakers." Sales of...
Tags: Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Barack Obama, Ayn Rand, Father's Day, NPR
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ACLU sues Obama administration over NSA surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against key members of President Obama’s national security team over the National Security Agency’s telephone surveillance, the first legal challenge to...
Tags: Jay Carney, U.S. Congress, White House, Politics, Barack Obama
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Chinese state media chide U.S. over Edward Snowden's allegations
BEIJING -- Officially, the Chinese government has nothing at all to say about Edward Snowden. But unofficially, it is only too happy to dump on the United States. After days of silence, state media have let loose with a barrage of criticism concerning...Tags: Political Systems, Reviews, Politics, Justice and Rights, Statue of Liberty
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Americans' views on NSA surveillance
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds "The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong." — Edward Snowden, to the Guardian, explaining his motivation to leak the classified NSA documents. So what's the public's conclusion? According... -
Are you a partisan hypocrite? Or just someone who trusts one party more than the other?
Change of SubjectAmong the cross-tabs in the polling about which Jessica wrote earlier today is this: When George W. Bush was president, 37 percent of Democrats approved of NSA surveillance. Now that Barack Obama is president (and the extent of the surveillance...... -
No, Big Brother isn’t watching
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column It’s easy to imagine an alternate America in which President Barack Obama had ostentatiously dismantled or curtailed the government’s electronic surveillance program shortly after his inauguration in 2009. Today,... -
NSA leak and armored-truck robbery: the odd Florida connection
A federal judge in Florida said this week that she would review the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone data after a man accused of masterminding an armed-truck robbery asked for his NSA phone data in hopes...
Tags: Politics, Broward County, National Government, Manhattan (New York City), Ariel Castro
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NSA chief: Surveillance programs thwarted 'dozens of terrorist plots'
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Security Agency portrayed the collection of millions of U.S. telephone records each day as a limited program designed to thwart terrorist plots, but made it clear that the NSA needed only a "reasonable suspicion"...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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WRAPUP 1-In first response to Snowden, China skirts direct comment
Reuters(.) By Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING, June 13 (Reuters) - China refused to be drawn on Thursday on revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance and on the American in Hong Kong who leaked the information, and a senior source said Beijing...Tags: Politics, Hong Kong, Xi Jinping, Facebook, Crime, Law and Justice
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