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NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
By ADAM GELLERAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone - government, business or both - might be watching. We knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
By ADAM GELLERAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone - government, business or both - might be watching. We knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
By ADAM GELLERAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone - government, business or both - might be watching. We knew that the technology was there. We knew that the law might allow it. As we stood under a security

How did secret phone program help foil NYC plot?

How did secret phone program help foil NYC plot?
By KIMBERLY DOZIERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official said. But the assertion raises as many questions as it

Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program

Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program
By LARA JAKES and JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation's top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is authorized by Congress, falls under strict

How did secret phone program help foil NYC plot?

How did secret phone program help foil NYC plot?
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - As the Obama administration defended its widespread collection of U.S. phone records and internet traffic, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday that the programs helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City

US officials long denied massive data trawling

US officials long denied massive data trawling
By STEPHEN BRAUNAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly denied in recent years that the National Security Agency collected massive caches of phone and Internet data taken from millions of Americans. Pressed during sworn testimony in

US declassifies phone program details after uproar

US declassifies phone program details after uproar
By JOSH LEDERMAN and DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to

US declassifies phone program details after uproar

US declassifies phone program details after uproar
By JOSH LEDERMAN and DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to

US declassifies phone program details after uproar

US declassifies phone program details after uproar
By JOSH LEDERMAN and DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to