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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING NSA contractor risks prosecution WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. He risked decades in jail for the disclosures — if the U.S. can extradite him from Hong Kong where he has taken refuge. Edward Snowden, 29, who says he worked as a contractor at the National Security Agency and the CIA, allowed The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers to reveal his identity Sunday. Both papers have published a series of topsecret documents outlining two NSA surveillance programs. One gathers hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records while searching for possible links to known terrorist targets abroad, and the second allows the government to tap into nine U.S. Internet companies to gather all Internet usage to detect suspicious behavior that begins overseas. The revelations have reopened the post-Sept. 11 debate about individual privacy concerns versus heightened measures to protect the U.S. against terrorist attacks. The NSA has asked the Justice Department to conduct a criminal investigation into the leaks. Government lawyers are now ''in the initial stages of an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information by an individual with authorized access,'' said Nanda Chitre, Justice Department spokeswoman. President Barack Obama said the programs are authorized by Congress and subject to strict supervision of a secret court, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says they do not target U.S. citizens. What's the problem with PRISM? WASHINGTON (AP) — When the federal government went looking for phone numbers tied to terrorists, it grabbed the records of just about everyone in America. Why every phone number? ''Well, you have to start someplace,'' Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC News on Monday. That breadth, that willingness to sweep up enormous information on Americans with no ties to terrorists, is making it hard for the Obama administration to tamp down controversy over a separate program, called PRISM, to monitor Internet traffic. In short, critics ask, if looking for terrorists means collecting every American's phone records, how can anyone believe the president when he says Americans aren't being monitored on the Internet? FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's courtmartial for giving hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks entered its second week Monday in a fresh spotlight cast by a brandnew leak by another lowlevel intelligence employee. Like Manning, Edward Snowden could find himself hauled into court by the U.S. government after he unmasked himself Sunday as the leaker who exposed the nation's secret phone and Internet surveillance programs to reporters. Legal experts closely following both cases said they were shocked to find out young, low-ranking people had such access to powerful government secrets. Manning was 22 when he turned over the military and diplomatic cables about three years ago; Snowden is 29. ''In that respect, these cases suggest we should be much more careful about who is given security clearances,'' said David J.R. Frakt, a former military prosecutor and defense lawyer who has taught at several law schools. At the same time, legal experts saw differences between the two cases, namely that Manning's secret-spilling was more scattershot, while Snowden appeared more selective. 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Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said, however, the government would no longer tolerate ''illegal acts,'' and implied that the occupation of Taksim and its accompanying Gezi Park would be over by the weekend. ''Illegal acts in Turkey from now won't be allowed and whatever needs to be done according to the law will be done,'' he said after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ''All necessary actions against illegal acts will have been completed, and we will see this all together, by the weekend.'' Spring Leagues now forming OPENINGS FOR TEAMS & INDIVIDUALS CALL 527-2720 TO SIGN UP TODAY!! Sheet Metal Roofing Residential Commercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane Serving Tehama County No Money Jury selection begins in trial of Fla. volunteer charged in teen's death Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial under fresh spotlight RUNNINGS ROOFING "No Job Too Steep" " No Job Too Flat" manslaughter trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. 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