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Encryption: Terrorists find new ways to hide

By J.J. Green

WASHINGTON — Terrorists continue to search for new ways to hide their communications. And on this week’s edition of The Hunt, Brig Barker, a former FBI supervisory special agent who specialized in counter-terrorism, says encryption is their newest and most-improved weapon.

Exclusive: Years after jolting Snowden leaks, NSA battles to regain edge

By J.J. Green
WASHINGTON — Several years after contractor Edward Snowden abruptly left the U.S. in 2013 with a trove of highly classified secrets, the National Security Agency and its counterparts in the U.S. intelligence community continue to struggle under the crushing impact of his actions. “It should be pretty obvious to everyone that what Snowden did was a jolt to our system. Not only did he endanger what we've spent years developing, but he endangered the lives of the people we try to protect,” NSA Deputy Director George C. Barnes told WTOP in an exclusive interview.
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