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Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Is Not Safer Since 9/11 | Wheels of Justice Slowly...

Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Is Not Safer Since 9/11 | Wheels of Justice Slowly Turning at Gitmo | Hollywood Legend Peter O'Toole Dead at 81 | Forget Detroit, Puerto Rico Is In Big Trouble | Supervolcano...

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House Votes to Defund NSA Spying Programs

Is Congress serious about curtailing the NSA and the U.S. national security establishment's ability to spy indiscriminately on everyone in America? Maybe so.The Republican controlled House of...

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NSA Director: Snowden Leaks 'Manageable'

It has been more than a year since former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked over 200,000 secret government documents, blowing the lid off of the American government's...

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A Real-Life Spy Thriller: New Doc Chronicles The Story Behind Edward Snowden

More than a year after NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden handed over a trove of documents that revealed the extent of the government's surveillance programs, a new documentary chronicles Snowden's...

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Is it Time to Let Snowden Come Home?

The passage of the USA Freedom Act is the first major effort by Congress to rein in parts of the Patriot Act and the NSA's bulk data collection program. But the law may never have been passed had it...

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Iran's new President; arming Syria's rebels and the ongoing NSA surveillance...

 In this week's Washington Report online, Kerry Nolan talks with David Sanger about whether the election of Iran's new President really means a moderation of the hard-line government; what happens now...

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Backlash to NSA's PRISM Program Spawns a Movement

In the wake of news that the National Security Agency is collecting vast amounts of digital data about the online activity of U.S. citizens, the federal government has said the program — known as PRISM...

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Edward Snowden: Wanted Man

Edward Snowden exposed the United States government’s mass surveillance programs in the most spectacular intelligence breach ever. Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story—from...

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Getting To Know Edward Snowden

Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair contributing editor, discusses the magazine’s exclusive interview with former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about his motivation for leaking tens of...

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Stingrays: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Was Right All Along

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Eye in the Sky

There are two sides to every surveillance story. On one side, security; on the other, privacy.Ross McNutt is an innovator in the field. During the Iraq War in 2004, McNutt and his team developed...

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How the CIA Can Hack Smartphones (and so Much More)

On Tuesday, Wikileaks disclosed an alleged CIA surveillance program that has the capabilities to target security weaknesses in everyday electronics like smartphones, smart TVs and personal computers,...

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Government Secrets Worth Leaking... or Keeping?

So, the C.I.A. has a back door to your phone. At least, according to the Vault 7 data dump from WikiLeaks.The documents—as yet unproven—say that if your device is connected to the internet, the...

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