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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:25:52 PM EST
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:25:52 PM EST
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, by National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith B. Alexander during the committee's hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:25:52 PM EST
From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 6/17/2013 3:15:58 AM EST
In this photo taken March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Intelligence Committee. During the public hearing a member of Congress asked Clapper if the National Security Agency collects data on millions of Americans. “No, sir,” said Clapper. Then, NSA programs that do precisely that are disclosed. But those programs are classified, and cannot be discussed in public hearings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 9:17:32 PM EST
FILE - This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The Guardian newspaper says that the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails when the U.K. hosted international conferences, even going so far as to set up a bugged Internet café in an effort to get an edge in high-stakes negotiations. The Guardian cites more than half a dozen internal government documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as the basis for its reporting on GCHQ's intelligence operations. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 10:52:53 AM EST
A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, in the underground train in Hong Kong Sunday, June 16, 2013. Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries - and that gathered data is destroyed every five years. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 9:33:30 AM EST
FILE - in this July 10, 2008, file photo President George W. Bush is applauded after signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) at the White House in Washington. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court hears cases inside vaults in a federal courthouse. Legal justifications are classified, there's no lawyer countering the government's case for authority and the decisions are rarely made public. In one step toward openness, the Obama administration has disclosed some secret legal opinions, but only those from Bush's previous administration, like the treatment of terrorist detainees. From left are, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, obscured, Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., the president, and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 10:43:05 PM EST
FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo shows the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. When Edward Snowden - the 29-year-old intelligence contractor whose leak of top-secret documents has exposed sweeping government surveillance programs - went to Arundel High School, the agency regularly sent employees from its nearby black-glass headquarters to tutor struggling math students. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 3:25:39 PM EST
Activists take part in a rally to support the Syrian government headed by President Bashar Assad, in Rome, Saturday, June 15, 2013. The Obama administration hopes its decision to give lethal aid to Syrian rebels will prompt other nations to increase assistance, now that the U.S. has cited evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its people. But the international reaction ranged from flat-out disbelief of the U.S. intelligence assessments to calls for negotiation before more weapons pour into the vicious civil war. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 11:13:40 AM EST
FILE - This Sept. 19, 2007 file photo shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. When Edward Snowden joined friends in his late teens to edit a website built around a shared interest in Japanese animation, they chartered the venture from an apartment in military housing at Fort George G. Meade, the 8-square-mile installation that houses the NSA center dubbed the Puzzle Palace and calls itself the "nation's pre-eminent center for information, intelligence and cyber." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 6:32:48 PM EST
FILE - In this June 11, 2013, file photo House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., is followed by reporters as he arrives for a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rogers announced Friday, June 14, 2013, he will not run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year, telling supporters in a note that the best way for him to have a direct impact in Washington is to stay in the House. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 7:58:37 AM EST
High state attorney Ivo Istvan speaks during a news conference at the Police Prezidium headquarters, June 14, 2013. Czech prosecutors have charged seven people, including the head of the prime minister's office and two military intelligence service members, following raids of government and private offices, Istvan said on Friday. REUTERS/Petr Josek
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Posted: 6/14/2013 6:13:36 AM EST
This undated reproduction shows a page of Michael Karkoc's 1949 U.S. Army intelligence file that AP had declassified by the U.S. National Archives in Maryland through a Freedom of Information Act request. Officials note in the document that Karkoc told them he performed no military service during the war; working for his father until 1944 and in a labor camp from 1944 to 45. Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 3:45:50 AM EST
FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after the third day of his court martial. Disclosure of secret National Security Agency surveillance programs isn’t the first time the government has been caught spying on Americans or that classified government information has been leaked. The Vietnam War and civil-rights protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s generated plenty of surveillance and secrecy. And leaks. In June 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested for giving WikiLeaks more than 700,000 classified battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and video clips while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 2:16:53 AM EST
FILE - In this April 30, 2013 file photo, former National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon, center, leaves Supreme Prosecutors' Office after being summoned, in Seoul, South Korea. Won was indicted on charges of meddling in last year's presidential elections by ordering an online smear campaign against opposition candidates, prosecutors said Friday, June 14, 2013. Won ordered his agents to post comments slandering liberal candidates and praising conservative Park Geun-hye, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said in a statement. Park won the December vote by a million votes and took office in February. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Im Hun-jung, File) KOREA OUT
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Posted: 6/13/2013 7:32:01 PM EST
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., second from left, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turns to answer a question as she leaves a meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 6/13/2013 7:32:01 PM EST
Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding NSA programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 6/13/2013 7:26:22 PM EST
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaks to the media after attending a meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 6/13/2013 7:26:22 PM EST
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, right, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 6/13/2013 7:26:22 PM EST
Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, center, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding NSA programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
