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*Obama makes first trip to Berlin as U.S. president. *Leaders touch on Afghanistan, Syria, economy. BERLIN, June 19- President Barack Obama defended U.S. anti-terrorism tactics on a visit to Berlin on Wednesday, telling wary Germans Washington was not spying on the emails of ordinary citizens and promising to step up efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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The director of the NSA told Congress that terrorism threats are on halt due to its phone logs. The New York Times reports.
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David Livingstone, associate fellow of international security at Chatham House, discusses PRISM and calls for a "mature debate" about privacy between countries and their citizens.
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A former technical worker for the CIA is revealed as the source of a series of leaks about US phone and internet surveillance.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers reports the NSA has a secret program known as Prism; and T.J. Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor; Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation; Ron Fournier, National Journal, share their opinions.
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The Washington Post reports tonight that the National Security Agency and the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. internet companies."
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CNBC's Eamon Javers has the latest after a report the Obama administration demanded millions of phone records of Verizon customers. Mike Rogers, the House Intelligence Chairman, said the program actually thwarted a terrorist attack.
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Discussing whether "government spying" is worth giving up individual liberty, with Steven Bucci, Heritage Foundation. This program does not violate privacy, and has saved American lives, he says.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers offers insight on reports the national security agency has been gathering millions of Verizon telephone records. Government security people say the law has already saved lives.
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Rep. Mike Rogers defended the phone records law, saying it has thwarted a domestic terror attack in the past.
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The admission comes after the Guardian newspaper published a secret court order related to the records of millions of Verizon Communications customers on its website on Wednesday. Such information is "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the United States," the official said, speaking on the condition of not being named.
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The admission comes after the Guardian newspaper published a secret court order related to the records of millions of Verizon Communications customers on its website on Wednesday. Such information is "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the United States," the official said, speaking on the condition of not being named.
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New York police said two anonymous letters sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg contained traces of the deadly poison ricin.
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*Failure of diplomacy leaves window for Hamas popularity. Led by the secular Fatah party, the Western-backed PA has pursued surveillance, firings, arrests and torture to bar its Islamist militant rivals Hamas from public life in the West Bank, since the Palestinian territories were split in 2007 when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip coastal enclave.
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*Friend tells BBC spies tried to recruit one of suspects. *Counter-terrorism police arrest 31- year-old man at BBC. A man identified by the BBC as Abu Nusaybah told its flagship news programme "Newsnight" that intelligence officers had approached Adebolajo six months ago to see if he would work for them as an informant.
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President Obama is giving a speech on counterterrorism in Washington, specifically addressing the use of drones, with CNBC's John Harwood.
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A man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, reports NBC's Annabel Roberts.
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Following the death of a man in London by Islamic extremists, NBC's Annabel Roberts reports from the ground.
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CNBC reports on the suspected terrorist attack in south-east London in which a man was killed. Warning: this video contains graphic images.
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Eyewitnesses say 2 attackers tried to behead a soldier in London today, and the 2 men then charged at police once they arrived and were both shot at, reports NBC's Michelle Krosinski.
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*Trade secret theft costs $300 billion, 2.1 million jobs. WASHINGTON, May 22- Theft of trade secrets, chiefly by China, costs the U.S. economy $300 billion a year and must be fought with sanctions as tough as those used against terrorism and drug trafficking, an advisory panel said on Wednesday.
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