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Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (Associated Press)

Ex-NSA boss Hayden: Obama to put Americans at ease with spy programs

By Tom Howell Jr. - 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)

Questions and answers about Obama’s new NSA rules

By CONNIE CASS - Associated Press

Obama says foreign countries rely on NSA data

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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)

Obama tightens reins on surveillance programs

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Government's secret backdoor to your email (Alexander Hunter - The Washington Times)

CODEVILLA: Government’s secret backdoor to your email

By Angelo M. Codevilla

President Obama speaks at Justice Department headquarters in D.C. on Friday.

Obama calls for immediate checks, long-term changes to NSA snooping

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 6, 2013, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

State Dept. computers open to hackers: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

President Obama will announce changes to U.S. spying, surveillance and data-collection efforts in a speech at the Justice Department on Friday. Privacy advocates have low expectations from the president on whose watch U.S. surveillance has expanded. The speech is in response to a White House panel's recommendations. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Little change expected in U.S. surveillance policy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden "would love" to return to the U.S. "if the conditions were right," his top legal adviser Jesselyn Radack said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS photographs)

Obama faces ‘day of action’ to protest NSA reforms

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans’ phone records for possible future surveillance, but leave many of the specific reforms for Congress to sort out, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the White House intelligence review. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama’s NSA announcements just the starting point

By STEPHEN BRAUN and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, file photo, a man looks at his cellphone as he walks on the street in downtown Madrid. 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/Francisco Seco, File)

Report: NSA maps pathway into computers

Associated Press

Snowden

HARPER: A 1971 heist sheds light on Snowden dilemma for media

By Christopher Harper

**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)

Spending bill takes first swipe at NSA over domestic spying

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Justice Department is venue for Obama NSA speech

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president is hosting a series of meetings this week with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials as he nears a final decision on changes to the government's controversial surveillance programs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Lawmakers: Obama weighing changes in NSA policy

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