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** FILE ** President Obama attends a bilateral meeting June 18, 2012, with then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon during the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. (Associated Press)

Mexico outraged at U.S. surveillance of ally Felipe Calderon

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Reining in the snoops

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Oct. 4, 2013 photo shows a view of the newsroom of the International Herald Tribune, who will be rebranded as the International New York Times on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at the International Herald Tribune headquarters in Paris. The International Herald Tribune, a celebrated newspaper that long gave U.S. expatriates a cherished lifeline to events back home and a dose of Americana for foreign readers, published its last edition on Monday Oct. 14, 2013. It was 126 years old. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

EDITORIAL: The New York Times v. Obama

By 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)

NSA spy chief to step down

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division for the Justice Department Tony West speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, regarding a major settlement with a pharmaceutical company for False Claims Act and off-label marketing violations. Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a years long federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling drug. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Fed shutdown forces courts into ‘limbo land’

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

NSA caught sifting millions of email lists around the world

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward J. Snowden arrived Thursday, Oct. 11 in Moscow hoping to meet his son. “I am his father. I love my son,” Lon Snowden told reporters in remarks broadcast by Russian TV. (Associated Press)

Snowden dad in Moscow to see son

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat (Associated Press)

Wyden: NSA eavesdropping is hurting U.S. economy

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Google's data centers in Oregon and elsewhere process hundreds of millions of searches that Internet users make each day. Such centers also store email, photos, video, calendar entries and other information that may not be as secure as users believe because of encryption subversion. (Google via Associated Press)

NSA wages secret war against encryption

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

National Intelligence Director James Clapper pauses during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in Washington. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community&#8217;s ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

NSA spy data center hit with multiple meltdowns; electrical explosions delay opening

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community&#8217;s ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

NSA chief’s admission of misleading numbers adds to Obama administration blunders

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

CREWS AND YOUNG: The real cost of federal regulations

By Wayne Crews and Ryan Young

**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat (Associated Press)

Congress takes action against NSA phone snooping; security argument fails

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: How the FISA court went rogue

By Andrew P. Napolitano

British snooping agency did cyberattack on Belgian telecom firm: report

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: Calling red on a green light to spy and lie

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postpones state visit to U.S. over NSA spying

Associated Press

**FILE** President Obama meets with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on April 9, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Associated Press)

Brazil snubs Obama by refusing White House state-dinner honor

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama meets with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on April 9, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Associated Press)

NSA backlash builds in Brazil, across the world

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

**FILE** James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, listens March 12, 2013, to testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he testified about worldwide threats. (Associated Press)

Congress will rein in NSA’s domestic snooping, predicts top U.S. intel official

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times