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Amid reports a former National Security Agency contractor is in Moscow and seeking asylum in Ecuador, the Justice Department is defending its handling of its request for his extradition back to the United States.

Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended U.S. Internet and phone surveillance programs as narrowly targeted efforts that have saved lives and thwarted at least 50 terror threats.

According to the National Security Agency chief, the dozens of plots that were thwarted with the help of the government's surveillance programs included one that was directed at the New York Stock Exchange.

Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

Current and former top U.S. officials are supporting the government's collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs aimed at disrupting terrorist plots.

Facebook's top attorney says after a week of negotiations with national security officials, the company is allowed to make new revelations about government orders for user data.

The British government has issued an alert to airlines around the world, urging them not to allow former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to board flights to the United Kingdom.

The former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs has said in a new interview in Hong Kong that he is not attempting to hide from justice there but is using the city as a base to reveal wrongdoing.

Do you think it's okay for the government to review phone records and emails as part of an effort to prevent a future terror attack?

A British journalist says the American defense contractor who exposed secret U.S. surveillance programs provided him with documents he hasn't yet written about.