Stephen Braun

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FILE - In this April 3, 2014, file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. arrives to make a statement after a closed hearing to examine certain intelligence matters in Washington. The CIA does not give up its secrets easily. Under pressure from a Senate committee to declassify parts of a congressional report on harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists, the CIA is shadowed by its reluctance to open up about its operations and its past. The CIA officials who decide which secrets can be revealed have wrestled with Congress, archivists, journalists, former CIA employees and even a former CIA director. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

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CIA has upper hand in deciding public disclosures

Stephen Braun · April 30, 2014 5:48 pm

Report: Polygraph crime admissions not reported

Stephen Braun · April 22, 2014 5:56 pm

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Former CIA probers urge new investigative panel

Stephen Braun · March 17, 2014 3:37 pm

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CIA lawyer at center of computer snooping clash

Stephen Braun · March 12, 2014 4:29 pm

US plans to scan workers with secret clearances

Stephen Braun · March 10, 2014 3:34 am

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US network to scan workers with secret clearances

Stephen Braun · March 10, 2014 12:00 am

This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. The National Security Agency is telling Congress that an agency employee resigned after admitting to investigators that he gave Snowden a digital key that allowed him access to classified materials. Snowden has said he did not steal any passwords. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras)

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NSA: Co-worker provided a digital key to Snowden

Stephen Braun · February 14, 2014 8:04 am

This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras)

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NSA: Co-worker provided a digital key to Edward Snowden

Stephen Braun · February 14, 2014 5:00 am

Technology firms urge changes to US spying

Stephen Braun · February 11, 2014 9:02 pm

FILE - In this March 5, 2013, file photo, Navy Adm. William McRaven, commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A newly-released email shows that 11 days after the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, McRaven ordered subordinates to destroy any photographs of the al-Qaida founder's corpse or turn them over to the CIA. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Email shows effort to shield bin Laden photos

Stephen Braun · February 11, 2014 12:20 am

According to the newspapers, the government has been unable to keep pace since then with a national surge in cellphone usage and dwindling landline use by American consumers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Reports: NSA gets under 30 percent of phone data

Associated Press, Stephen Braun · February 8, 2014 5:00 am

In this Jan. 29, 2014, photo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the U.S. Clapper, said this week that the loss of state secrets as a result of leaks by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden was the worst in American history. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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FACT CHECK: NSA leaks worst intelligence breach?

Stephen Braun · January 31, 2014 5:12 pm