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** FILE ** In this Jan. 23, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

AP-GfK poll: Americans value privacy over security

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and JENNIFER AGIESTA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. This is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who are considering running for president in 2016. You could see them stirring in 2013 as they plugged holes in resumes, took preliminary steps to build potential campaign organizations and made carefully calibrated moves to get better known by Americans generally and key constituencies in particular. Most _ but not all _ are ticking off items on what could be called the presidential prep checklist. And they&#8217;ve got baggage to deal with. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Paul calls NSA lawsuit ‘historic,’ predicts a Supreme Court ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

German TV: Snowden says NSA also spies on industry

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Associated Press)

Eric Holder: U.S. investigating big banks and voter fraud

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

Government panel urges end to phone data spying

By Stephen Braun - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the United States — that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. ((AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Privacy board rules NSA snooping illegal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

BACKGROUND: Aaron Alexis was arrested by Fort Worth, Texas, police on suspicion of discharging a firearm before he was granted a security clearance. (Associated Press)

Background check firm accused of bilking government of millions

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Washinton Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis and Edward Snowden (TWT Photo Illustration)

FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has "already won" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Justice Department: Firm that vetted Snowden, Navy Yard shooter cheated government

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Executive Chairman and Director of Stroz Friedberg Eric Friedberg, poses for photos inside the server farm at the company's headquarters, in New York, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Friedberg, a former prosecutor, conducted what the Justice Department described as the first court approved email wiretap in the history of the Internet in 1995 as he investigated an international conspiracy to peddle cell phones programmed with stolen numbers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Some pioneers of digital spying have misgivings

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

Verizon reports 1,000-1,999 security data orders

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

President Obama (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NAPOLITANO: A presidential placebo on NSA unconstitutionality

By Andrew P. Napolitano

** FILE ** In this Jan. 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama waves to the audience after he spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Some Obama spy changes hampered by complications

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama waves to the audience after he spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, at the Justice Department in Washington. Several of the key surveillance reforms unveiled by President Barack Obama face complications that could muddy the proposals&#8217; authority, slow their momentum in Congress and saddle the government with heavy costs and bureaucracy, legal experts warn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s promises about NSA not to be believed

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GAFFNEY: Obama tries to have it both ways on NSA rules

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. The president called for ending the government's control of phone data from millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lawmakers skeptical about Obama surveillance idea

By LIBBY QUAID - Associated Press

"We have carefully reviewed this program and have found it to be legal and effective," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, and Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican, said in a joint statement after Mr. Obama's speech.

Congress split over NSA’s domestic spying program, could just let laws expire

By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Obama (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lawmakers say Obama surveillance idea won’t work

By LIBBY QUAID - Associated Press

In this Jan. 17, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency surveillance at the Justice Department in Washington. Obama’s orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Questions and answers about Obama’s new NSA rules

By CONNIE CASS - Associated Press