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NSA contractor arrested for stealing highly classified information

A National Security Agency contractor has been arrested and charged with stealing highly classified information, authorities said on Wednesday, a data breach that could mark a damaging new leak about the US government's surveillance efforts.

Leaked documents show US widened Internet spying: Report

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the U.S. government has widened the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic in the hunt for hackers, the New York Times reported.

Senior US Republican says Snowden's surveillance comments 'dangerous'

The Republican head of a congressional panel on Tuesday said officials are concerned that former U.S. contractor Edward Snowden's continued efforts to speak...

Snowden hits back against critics of NSA leaks

The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data...

Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated: Chief of Staff

President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data...

While working for spies, Snowden was secretly prolific online

While working for US intelligence agencies, Edward Snowden had another secret identity: an online commentator who anonymously railed against citizen surveillance and corporate greed.