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The Solitary Leaker — From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man. Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school. Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
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Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic — Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy — OVERVIEW — A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
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Transcript: Exclusive Interview With House Speaker John Boehner on NSA Leak, Immigration Reform And More — House Speaker John Boehner sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on “Good Moring America” to discuss the NSA leak, immigration reform, the IRS scandal and much more.
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Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an ‘act of treason’ — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday said the 29-year-old man who leaked information about two national security programs is guilty of treason. — Feinstein said former National Security Agency Edward Snowden she doesn't see him as a hero or a whistle blower.
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House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’ — House Speaker John Boehner today called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” who put Americans at risk by releasing classified information to the media. — “He's a traitor,” the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives …
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Revealed: The acrobat girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden... who he abandoned when he fled the U.S. — Lindsay Mills, 28, is reportedly the girlfriend Edward Snowden left behind when he leaked information about PRISM surveillance — The girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden …


Leaks fallout: How bad could it be? — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims the recent wave of leaks has done “huge, grave damage” to our intelligence gathering capabilities. — Nonsense, says Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian columnist who served as the primary conduit for the leaks …
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Big Brother Really Is Watching Us — Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy. — When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon's client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded …
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The slacker who came in from the cold — Think you're a loser just because you dropped out of high school and never finished the military training you began? — Think you're a dud just because you work as a security guard even though you dreamed of becoming a global savior? — Well, don't beat yourself up.
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Edward Snowden: Russia offers to consider asylum request
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NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
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Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
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Edward Snowden Is No Hero
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Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel
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How we broke the NSA story
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Debate on Secret Data Looks Unlikely, Partly Due to Secrecy
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US spy leaker Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong hotel
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Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy

How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story
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Intelligence chief Clapper: I gave ‘least untruthful’ answer on U.S. spying
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PRISM Program: Obama Administration Held 22 Briefings For Congress On Key FISA Law
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Pew Poll: 56 Percent Of Americans Say Phone Tracking Is Acceptable Anti-Terror Tactic
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17,000 sign petition urging Obama to pardon NSA whistle-blower
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Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.
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Plan B: Obama allows morning-after pill for under-17s
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Obama administration will approve Plan B pill for women and girls of all ages
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Obama Plan B Decision: Feds To Comply With NY Judge's Ruling
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Labor backs immigration plan with million-dollar ad buy — (CNN) - As the U.S. Senate prepares for its first procedural votes on the “Gang of Eight” immigration plan, a top labor union is launching a seven-figure ad buy on cable television. — The Service Employees International Union …
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Bill Daley forms exploratory committee
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Obama to rally support for immigration reform as Senate weighs bill
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Hillary's sorry state of affairs — Probes into her department's sex scandals were quashed, memo says — WASHINGTON — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's security detail …
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Obama's power grab: Column — The common thread running through his scandals is an abuse of power. — “How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans — now we have one.” That was Jay Leno's take on the Obama administration's expanding NSA spying scandal …

Senate Passes Farm Bill; House Vote Is Less Sure — WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping new farm bill on Monday that will cost nearly $955 billion over the next 10 years, the first step in a renewed attempt at passing legislation that will set the country's food and agriculture programs and policy.
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IRS Caught on Tape Telling Nonprofit: “Keep Your Faith to Yourself” — The IRS scandal is deepening as a new tape has been released today showing a disturbing phone call the Internal Revenue Service placed to a non-profit organization. — Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life legal group …
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