phone and internet spying

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has left a transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him a temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday.

The search for one terrorist could cause the government to look at phone call records involving millions of Americans.

German federal prosecutors say they are looking into whether reported U.S. electronic surveillance programs broke German laws.

The Senate Republican leader says the National Security Agency programs are legal and subject to rigorous oversight as he questioned the motivation of the private contractor who leaked information about the surveillance operations.