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**FILE** Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat, and the committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, arrive on Capitol Hill on July 31, 2013, as the panel questioned top Obama administration officials about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs for the first time since the House narrowly rejected a proposal last week to effectively shut down the NSA's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records. (Associated Press)

Agencies say restrictions on snooping harm effort

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., waits for an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, after speaking about gun legislation on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

EDITORIAL: Feinstein’s deception

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The seal of the Department of Homeland Security

NSA, Homeland Security issue ‘cease and desist’ letters to novelty store owner

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

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

Edward Snowden says he’ll testify against U.S. for Germany about spying

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Oct. 11, 2013, file photo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out the window en route to the ISAF headquarters after an unannounced visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. President Barack Obama and Kerry are trying to quell international anger over the latest classified disclosures about NSA tactics by Edward Snowden, who is still in Russia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

John Kerry admits U.S. spying went ‘too far inappropriately’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a rally to demand that the U.S. Congress investigate the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Senate intel committee approves NSA snooping, with restrictions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Pope Francis celebrates a ceremony to ordain two new bishops in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Popes under surveillance? U.S. accused of tapping Vatican

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

KUHNER: Not Uncle Sam, but Uncle Spy

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

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

NSA leaker Edward Snowden lands Web job in Russia

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Inside the Ring: U.S. grid threatened

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

The Director of National Intelligence has concluded that United States Investigations Services failed to conduct a proper background check on NSA data leaker Edward Snowden. (Associated Press)

Justice joins suit against security firm

By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama smiles after he said that environmental protesters who interrupted his speech were at the wrong event as he speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

NAPOLITANO: Is Obama a dupe or a totalitarian, megalomaniacal liar?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican, speaks at a town-hall meeting on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in West Bend, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Patriot Act author introduces bill to halt NSA snooping

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican, speaks at a town-hall meeting on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in West Bend, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Key GOP, Democratic lawmakers team up on anti-snooping bill

The Washington Times

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Associated Press/File)

Besieged White House defends snooping programs

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande embrace during a 2012 encounter. (credit: AP)

GOP lawmakers: Allies may be snooping, should be thankful to U.S.

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are among the U.S. allies who are upset at revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency was engaging in eavesdropping in their countries. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was so upset, she refused to attend a U.S. state dinner. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

NSA spying sours relations with Germany, Brazil

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White house staffer Jofi Joseph fired for tweets.

Obama aide fired for Twitter account used to bash White House, Republicans

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The washington Times

NAPOLITANO: A government of secrecy and fear

By Andrew P. Napolitano

NSA spied on millions in France; U.S. ambassador summoned: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times