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Spies versus Scribes

America's National Security Agency is mounting a full-scale public-relations campaign to rebut criticism of its surveillance programs. But it is also taking aim at those who would report about those programs.

NEW YORK – The recent guilty plea by Donald Sachtleben, a former FBI bomb technician charged with leaking classified information, after government investigators identified him by secretly obtaining the phone logs of some Associated Press reporters, represents the latest chapter in the ongoing drama over United States security officials’ behavior.

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