Stephen Braun

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US looks at ways to prevent spying on NSA spying

Stephen Braun · January 28, 2014 8:30 am

US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying

Stephen Braun · January 28, 2014 12:17 am

A sharply divided government task force that reviewed the National Security Agency's surveillance program for four months has urged President Barack Obama to shut down the agency's bulk collection of phone data and purge its massive inventory of millions of Americans' calling records, The Associated Press has learned (Thinkstock image)

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Government panel urges end to phone data spying

Stephen Braun · January 23, 2014 10:18 pm

Some Obama spy changes hampered by complications

Stephen Braun · January 20, 2014 7:20 pm

Telephone companies are quietly balking at the idea of changing how they collect and store Americans' phone records to help the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

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Proposed spy phone record shift draws resistance

Stephen Braun · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

Privacy board shares findings with Obama

Stephen Braun · January 10, 2014 6:48 pm

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Government asks for stay in surveillance lawsuit

Stephen Braun · January 9, 2014 2:14 am

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Dueling surveillance rulings stir legal ripples

Stephen Braun · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal judge says the NSA's bulk collection of phone records violates the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches. The judge put his decision on hold pending a nearly certain government appeal. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Spy panel wants duplicate oversight board replaced

Stephen Braun · December 20, 2013 5:10 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the The Peterson Institute for International Economics shows Theodore H. Moran. Moran, a longtime adviser to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has resigned after the government learned he has worked since 2010 on an international advisory council for Huawei Technologies Ltd., the Chinese technology company the U.S. has condemned as an espionage threat, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/The Peterson Institute for International Economics)

Chinese firm paid US gov’t intelligence adviser

Stephen Braun · December 7, 2013 9:50 am

From left, National Security Agency Deputy Director Chris Inglis, National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Deputy Attorney General James Cole, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on potential changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). (AP/Susan Walsh)

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Intel agency lawyers urge retention of secret data

Associated Press, Stephen Braun · November 4, 2013 9:44 pm

Report warns of threat of loose missiles in Syria

Stephen Braun · October 11, 2013 5:19 pm