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Rouhani, Obama sound positive but indicate progress on nuclear issue is likely to take time
www.washingtonpost.com-June 18, 2013
President Obama and the newly elected president of Iran signaled willingness to improve ties between their nations Monday, but both leaders made clear that a positive tone may not easily translate into progress in resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
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U.S. Naval Academy football players face charges over alleged 2012 rape
www.washingtonpost.com-June 18, 2013
Several U.S. Naval Academy football players will soon face charges in connection with the alleged rape of a female midshipman at an off-campus party more than a year ago, officials at the elite service academy in Annapolis said Monday.
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Putin and Obama Clash Over Assad's Fate
www.online.wsj.com-June 18, 2013
President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin clashed openly over Syria as world leaders began a summit here Monday, sharply underscoring deepening differences over the civil war.
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N.S.A. Leaker Denies Giving Secrets to China
www.nytimes.com-June 18, 2013
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has confessed to disclosing troves of highly classified documents detailing American surveillance at home and abroad, said Monday that he had not given any classified materials to the government of China.
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U.S. officials fear NSA leaker has more classified documents
www.washingtonpost.com-June 14, 2013
A broad assessment of the damage caused by disclosure of documents on classified intelligence programs has concluded that the former National Security Agency contractor who claimed responsibility for the leaks probably obtained dozens of other sensitive files, U.S. officials said Thursday.
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Syrian rebels say they need heavy weaponry, not small arms, from U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com-June 14, 2013
Syrian rebels on Friday described the U.S. decision to provide them with arms as a “late step” and called for shipments to include heavy weaponry capable of tipping the balance of power on the battlefield.
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U.S. Is Said to Plan to Send Weapons to Syrian Rebels
www.nytimes.com-June 14, 2013
The Obama administration, concluding that the troops of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in his country’s civil war, has decided to begin supplying the rebels for the first time with small arms and ammunition, according to American officials.
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Experts: Syria rebels need weapons before diplomacy
www.usatoday.com-June 14, 2013
President Obama's decision to provide military aid to Syrian rebel forces does not mean the United States' goal must now be the defeat of dictator Bashar Assad, foreign policy experts said Thursday.
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Leaker's Ties to China Probed
www.online.wsj.com-June 14, 2013
U.S. lawmakers briefed Thursday on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs trained their fire on the self-described source of the leaks, Edward Snowden, suggesting he may be cooperating with the Chinese government.
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NSA director says dozens of attacks were stopped by surveillance programs
www.washingtonpost.com-June 13, 2013
The head of the National Security Agency defended his agency’s broad electronic surveillance programs Wednesday, saying that they have helped thwart dozens of terrorist attacks and that their recent public disclosure has done “great harm” to the nation’s security.
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FBI director faces grilling by House panel on Benghazi, data leaks
www.foxnews.com-June 13, 2013
Members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will question outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller on investigations of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, the Boston Marathon bombings, and recent leaks of classified government information.
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Google details how it hands over data to federal officials
www.washingtonpost.com-June 13, 2013
Google on Wednesday downplayed its role in a secret government surveillance program, detailing for the first time how it typically hands over data to federal officials.
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N.S.A. Chief Says Phone Logs Halted Terror Threats
www.nytimes.com-June 13, 2013
The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens” of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the telephone records are destroyed after five years.
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Storage Wars: Government’s Vast Lockers of Data Threaten Basic Individual Freedoms
www.nationaljournal.com-June 13, 2013
I’m going to try to tie together strands of information NSA-style and see if a pattern emerges. I will be looking for signs that America’s historic definition and understanding of privacy are being eroded. I will also try to understand if that erosion could fundamentally alter an individual American’s relationship to government power.
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Iran emerging as victor in Syrian conflict
www.washingtonpost.com-June 12, 2013
As fighters with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement wage the battles that are helping Syria’s regime survive, their chief sponsor, Iran, is emerging as the biggest victor in the wider regional struggle for influence that the Syrian conflict has become.
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