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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: European Union, Susan Collins, U.S. Department of Justice, United Kingdom, Jarmes R. Clapper
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Details about Edward Snowden's life in Maryland emerge
Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City. Snowden, 29, attended...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Banking, Police Investigations, Elections, Edward Snowden
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Hero or traitor, Snowden driven by fear of government intrusion
ReutersBy John Shiffman and Daniel Trotta June 10 (Reuters) - A high school dropout who became a whiz at information technology, Edward Snowden was the son of parents who divorced in 2001, the year he turned 18. Twelve years later, he would catapult to...Tags: Geneva (Swiss Confederation), White House, Daniel Ellsberg, Science and Technology, Culture
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NSA chief says U.S. infrastructure highly vulnerable to cyber attack
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. critical infrastructure - which ranges from telecommunications to water to energy supplies - is not well prepared to handle a destructive cyber attack, the top U.S. general in charge of cybersecurity said on Wednesday....Tags: U.S. Military, National Security Agency, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Congress
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Raydon Corp. wins $44 million combat-vehicle training contract
Raydon Corp., a Volusia County-based military-training company, has emerged from a scrum of rivals with a contract potentially worth $44 million to produce armored-vehicle driver-training simulators, the Army said Monday. The Port Orange company...
Tags: U.S. Military, Defense, Budgets and Budgeting, Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense Equipment
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If past is any indicator, ex-NSA contractor may escape long jail term
ReutersBy David Ingram and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - Americans accused of divulging secrets to the media have escaped long prison sentences, a pattern that may reassure Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Lawyers, Daniel Ellsberg, Trials, National Security
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COLUMN - Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks
Reuters(Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer June 12 (Reuters) - Edward Snowden's expansive disclosures to the Guardian and the Washington Post about various National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs...Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, White House, John McCain, Daniel Ellsberg, Dick Cheney
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Letters: Jury is still out on Edward Snowden
Re "Hero or criminal?," Editorial, June 11, and "Analyst admits to cyber-spying leaks," June 10 Senate Intelligence Committee head Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has called Edward J. Snowden's admitted leaking of the National Security Agency's extensive...
Tags: Politics, Daniel Ellsberg, Dianne Feinstein, Hong Kong, American Civil Liberties Union
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Struggling to take off
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE— Far beyond the electronic security gates and razor-wire topped fences, Col. Rod Cregier surveys a team of technicians busily readying a lithe F-35 fighter jet for its next test flight. As the F-35 program director at the...
Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Science and Technology, Military Aircraft, Aircraft Carriers, U.S. Congress
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Confessions of a former government contract worker
I once held a security clearance from the U.S. government. For all I know, I still do since I never heard about it being rescinded. I was a mere 18 years old when I got cleared, certified through an FBI investigation that it was safe for me to handle...
Tags: Social Sciences, Politics, Culture, FBI, Edward Snowden
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More than 900 W.Va. Air and Army National Guard techs to be furloughed
More than 900 West Virginia Air and Army National Guard technicians will be furloughed, including 384 at the 167th Airlift Wing based near Martinsburg, in the coming months because of automatic federal budget cuts. The technicians maintain the Guard&...
Tags: Unemployment, Army National Guard, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employees, U.S. Army
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Grayson wants to halt government collection of citizens' phone, Internet records
WASHINGTON — Prompted by recent reports of widespread government collection of telephone and Internet records, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, has filed legislation that would prohibit the Department of Defense, which includes the secretive...
Tags: Alcee Hastings, Parties and Movements, Politics, National Security, Email
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