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CIA Chief Blasts Concern Over Spy Practices

November 16, 2015 at 7:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

CIA Director John Brennan denounced “hand-wringing” over intrusive spying and said that leaks of classified information had made it harder to identify terrorists, the New York Times reports.

 

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