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FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, a sign stands outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Analysis: NSA bill barely touches the agency’s vast powers

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

"The Patriot Act will expire tonight. It will only be temporary. They will ultimately get their way," said Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, underscoring the limits of his powers of objection, which can push matters until Wednesday at the latest. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul stalls Patriot Act NSA surveillance powers past renewal deadline

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a likely Republican 2016 presidential candidate, gestures during a town hall type meeting at the Veteran's of Foreign War post in Hudson, N.H., Monday, May 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Chris Christie: Rand Paul siding with ‘criminal’ Edward Snowden

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Jan. 19, 2015 file photo, a French police officer works at the headquarters of the Pharos reporting platform against cyber criminality, in Nanterre, outside Paris. Fearful of an expanding extremist threat, countries that for years have relied heavily on U.S. intelligence are quickly building up their own capabilities with new technology, new laws and _ in at least one case _ a searing debate on how much the American government should be allowed to spy on their own citizens. (AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, pool, File)

For U.S. allies, paradigm shift in intelligence collection

By LORI HINNANT and KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks in Portsmouth, N.H. across the river from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Monday, May 18, 2015, about his foreign policy plans. Christie made the case Monday for a more active U.S. presence overseas, including a larger military and defended the government's intelligence-collection efforts in a speech laying out his foreign policy platform. The likely 2016 Republican presidential contender used the New Hampshire appearance to criticize the president's approach to the Islamic State militants and the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, as well Russia's backing of separatists in Ukraine and China's encroachment in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Chris Christie says Patriot Act not abused and needs extension

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Two artists who put a bust of Edward Snowden on a Revolutionary War memorial were ticketed but not criminally charged and got their confiscated statue back Wednesday, police and their lawyer said. (Associated Press)

Edward Snowden bust on NYC monument results in tickets, no charges for artists

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

In this Nov. 1, 2011, file photo, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file pool) ** FILE **

Wikipedia suing NSA over Internet spying

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Edward Snowden, a former contractor who fled the United States after exposing NSA spy secrets, shared documents with German magazine Der Spiegel that appear to show that China stole sensitive data about U.S. warplanes, including engine schematics and radar design. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

NSA leaker Edward Snowden wants to return home, his lawyer says

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National Security Agency director Mike Rogers (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Mike Rogers, NSA chief, says Edward Snowden’s revelations hurt counterterrorism capabilities

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Edward Snowden. (Associated Press)

Edward Snowden leak: NSA helped British steal cell phone codes

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

National Security Agency director Mike Rogers speaks at Stanford University, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in Stanford, Calif. Rogers told professors and students that U.S. intelligence is depending on Silicon Valley innovation for technologies that strengthen the Internet and staff to provide national cybersecurity. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

NSA braced for major new leaks

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

Edward Snowden, a former contractor who fled the United States after exposing NSA spy secrets, shared documents with German magazine Der Spiegel that appear to show that China stole sensitive data about U.S. warplanes, including engine schematics and radar design. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Edward Snowden China warplane data theft claim rebutted by U.S. military

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

James Clapper (Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times)

BRUCE FEIN: The Surveillance State has arrived

By Bruce Fein

Russian Anna Chapman, who was deported from the U.S. in July 2010 on charges of espionage, poses on the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the 35th Moscow International Film Festival in Moscow on June 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.) **FILE**

Anna Chapman, Russian spy, tried seducing Edward Snowden: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, a sign stands outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the NSA had been secretly collecting American telephone records, some NSA executives voiced strong objections to the program, intelligence officials say, complaining that it exceeded the agency’s mandate to focus on foreign spying and would do little to stop terror plots.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Snowden ‘in cahoots’ with Russia from ‘get-go’?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

MICHAEL HAYDEN: The downside of ‘immaculate’ data collection

By Mike Hayden

UD student’s 9-foot Edward Snowden statue at DCCA

By RYAN CORMIER - Associated Press

In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Snowden pans mass surveillance in Harvard talk

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