Tag: NSA

NSA leaker Edward Snowden is sounding out Brazil as a possible refuge from U.S. prosecution, offering to help that country investigate the agency's espionage activities after published reports derived from his stolen documents soured U.S.-Brazil relations.ÃÂ (AP File Photo)

Beltway Confidential

NSA leaker Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Brazil

Charles Hoskinson · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is "setting fire to the future of the Internet." (AP Image)

National Security

White House on Edward Snowden’s request for asylum in Brazil: He should return to the US

Susan Crabtree · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Stakes rise for Obama’s NSA review

Brian Hughes · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - A large television screen shows a news report on Edward Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Sunday, June 23, 2013. "Everyone used to mock China and joke about their levels of Internet security and that there was no freedom at all. But now, the moment you use the words 'National Security' in the U.S., everyone keeps quiet and looks the other way," says Kunal Sharma, a business executive from New Delhi. "The Snowden revelations have made me change my opinion about the U.S. _ the land of the brave and home of the free _ quite a bit." (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

National Security

Obama administration: ‘No change in US policy’ on amnesty for Edward Snowden

Brian Hughes · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Beltway Confidential

Federal judge rules NSA phone collection likely unconstitutional, suggests data may be destroyed

Joel Gehrke · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

National Security

Judge deals NSA defeat on bulk phone collection

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Obama, tech leaders to discuss NSA, health care website

Meghashyam Mali · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. Senator John McCain gestures while speaking to Pro-European Union activists gathered during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Beltway Confidential

John McCain sours on American spies as lies to Congress add up

Joel Gehrke · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

Terry Lee Loewen, 58, is seen in an undated mugshot photo provided by the Sedgwick County, Kan., Clerk's Office. (AP Photo/Sedgwick County Clerk's Office)

Beltway Confidential

NSA programs help thwart plots such as the attempted Kansas bombing, says Intel Committee member

Joel Gehrke · December 14, 2013 5:00 am

This undated photo by aerospace technology company Northrop Grumman shows the RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft that students in the University of North Dakota aviation program will learn to fly. (AP/Courtesy of Northrup Grumman)

National Security

Aviation schools prepare for boom in drone jobs

Dave Kolpack · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

Thanks to Snowden, NSA spying, youths abandoning Obama

Paul Bedard · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this undated file photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be recirculated at a Google data center in Mayes County, Okla. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of the servers. Eight major technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, have joined forces to call for tighter controls on government surveillance, issuing an open letter Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 to President Barack Obama arguing for reforms in the way the U.S. snoops on people. (AP File)

National Security

Tech giants call for controls on government snooping

Washington Examiner · December 9, 2013 5:00 am