NSA

The law authorizing such data collection, known as Section 702, has been among the most controversial of the intelligence community's surveillance powers for years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

NSA chief: Agency collecting more data than ever

Joel Gehrke · June 7, 2017 5:47 pm

All of the four panelists - Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, ODNI Director Dan Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers - gave examples of how the foreign surveillance tools help the national security work they are all tasked with. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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Intelligence officials urge Senate to renew expiring surveillance law

Todd Shepherd · June 7, 2017 5:16 pm

The program allowed the NSA to "recreate the insights on the Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election cycle." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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NSA Director Mike Rogers: Surveillance program gave ‘insights’ into Russian election meddling

Melissa Quinn · June 7, 2017 3:24 pm

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Senate Intelligence chairman promises closed session to talk about Trump-Russia probe

Pete Kasperowicz · June 7, 2017 12:32 pm

A lawyer for Reality Winner, the 25-year-old government contractor who was arrested for leaking classified information to the press, said Wednesday that people should ignore her anti-Trump tweets and instead take it from her parents when it comes to "who she is as a person." (Photo courtesy: Facebook)

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Reality Winner’s lawyer asks public to ignore her anti-Trump tweets

Pete Kasperowicz · June 7, 2017 11:35 am

Edward Snowden, a former CIA worker before becoming a leaker, called for Reality Winner to be released on bail because, he said, she is not a flight risk or a threat to public safety. ( Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP)

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Snowden: Prosecution of Reality Winner without jury a ‘threat to free press’ in America

Mandy Mayfield · June 7, 2017 1:47 am

Winner is accused of sending classified documents to the Intercept. (Screengrab)

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Reality Winner, alleged NSA leaker, a ‘patriot,’ stepfather says

Ariella Phillips · June 6, 2017 10:05 pm

Reality Leigh Winner, who was arrested Saturday, detailed the meeting in a Facebook post Feb. 14. (Screengrab)

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Federal contractor arrested after leaking classified information met with Sen. Perdue’s staff earlier this year

Melissa Quinn · June 6, 2017 8:40 pm

The launch of Trumpileaks comes just one day after the Department of Justice announced the arrest of 25-year-old federal contractor Reality Winner, for leaking classified information related to Russia to an online news outlet. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, left, and Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

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Michael Moore launches ‘TrumpiLeaks’ for whistleblowers

Sean Langille · June 6, 2017 5:08 pm

It's the first leak case under President Trump, who has spoken out angrily against leakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rand Paul on leakers: ‘All of them have to be found’

Caitlin Yilek · June 6, 2017 4:45 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin's expression of support for Qatar marks another instance of his country's cozying up to traditional U.S. allies at a time of tension between the United States and some of its partners. (Sergei Savostyanov/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-CIA acting director: Putin’s protests about election hacks sound like what he said about Crimea

Matthew Trunko · June 5, 2017 10:05 pm

The Justice Department said Winner admitted to printing off the classified report. (Wikipedia Commons)

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Federal contractor Reality Leigh Winner arrested for sending classified NSA intelligence to news outlet

Kyle Feldscher · June 5, 2017 9:38 pm