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Budget Battles

  • Obama’s Approval Dips Slightly Amid NSA Disclosure

    By Eric Pianin

    There are early signs that the roaring controversy over revelations of top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone and Internet records of Americans and foreigners is chipping away at...

  • NSA Data Mining Raises Eyebrows Among US Allies

    By Andrew Osborne, Reuters

    Revelations of a huge, secret U.S. Internet spying program have raised awkward questions for allies, forced to explain whether they let Washington spy on their citizens or benefited from snooping...

  • Turkey Could Be the Middle East’s Powder Keg

    By Patrick Smith

    Maybe it had to come to this, given that Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s bullheaded, probably corrupt prime minister, heads an Islamist government in a nation far down the road to secularism. Erdoğan has...

  • NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum

    By Barton Gellman and Aaron Blake, The Washington Post

    Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former undercover CIA employee, unmasked himself Sunday as the principal source of recent Washington Post and Guardian disclosures about top-secret National Security...

  • Deficit May Be Shrinking But Hard Work Remains

    By Lori Montgomery Wp, The Washington Post

    After two years of harrowing confrontations in Washington, the national debt is no longer growing out of control and policymakers from President Obama to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH) have...