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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The latest study of the the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board takes the opposite view of a different set of National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed last year by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden. The board which was to vote on the report on Wednesday, July 2, 2014, found that the NSA's collection of Internet data within the United States passes constitutional muster and employs "reasonable" safeguards designed to protect the rights of Americans. Last January, the first time the board dissected an NSA surveillance program, it found fundamental flaws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Civil liberties board backs U.S. snooping program, but demands big changes

The civil liberties board on Thursday urged Congress to renew the government's top snooping tool, which scoops up communications from thousands of targets, saying that even with all of its flaws, the program has sniffed out serious terrorist threats to the U.S. Published September 28, 2023

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Candidates call for end to birthright citizenship at GOP debate

Republicans called for building more border wall, surging more security personnel to the border and stripping birthright citizenship from children of illegal immigrants as they found common ground in Wednesday night's presidential candidates' debate. Published September 27, 2023

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chinese nationals sent $260,000 to Hunter Biden in 2019 at father’s address

Chinese nationals sent $260,000 in bank wires to Hunter Biden in 2019 and listed President Biden's home as the address, House Republicans revealed Tuesday, calling it more refutation of the president's repeated claims of having nothing to do with his son's business dealings. Published September 26, 2023

A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as undocumented immigrants board a bus at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint Thursday, May 11, 2023 in Yuma, Ariz. (Randy Hoeft//The Yuma Sun via AP)

ICE hits post-pandemic high for detaining illegal immigrants

The administration is now detaining 35,000 illegal immigrants, the most since President Biden took office, according to new data released Tuesday that shows Homeland Security increasingly turning to Trump-style get-tough measures to respond to the record border surge. Published September 26, 2023

In this Jan. 12, 2015, photo, a supermarket displays stickers indicating they accept food stamps in West New York, N.J. Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems that was supposed to check whether food stamp applications had a low enough income to qualify for the benefit. The result, according to a state audit, was tens of thousands of people collecting benefits they didn’t deserve. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Fraud, errors cost food stamp program nearly $1B a month

Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems that was supposed to check whether food stamp applications had a low enough income to qualify for the benefit. Published September 26, 2023

Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Mayorkas’ latest border reset: More amnesty and more troops; Venezuelans get special status

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting his third immigration policy reset in just nine months, announcing new troop deployments to the border and faster deportation of families, coupled with an expanded amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and more generous work permits to other illegal immigrants already in the U.S. Published September 21, 2023

Two sanitation workers wearing hazmat suits disinfect a conference room in an office. File photo credit: SeventyFour via Shutterstock.

Telework’s empty buildings open the door for Legionnaires’ disease

The water supply in at least six federal government buildings is contaminated with the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease, and the problem may be even more widespread, according to the inspector general who oversees U.S. properties. Published September 21, 2023

Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Wuhan lab barred from HHS money for 10 years

The federal government has slapped a punitive 10-year ban on China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, barring it from getting any money through the Health and Human Services Department. Published September 20, 2023