Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, arrives to testify during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Gabbard, a former Congresswoman from Hawaii who previously ran for president as a Democrat before joining the Republican Party and supporting President Trump, is facing criticism from Senators over her lack of intelligence experience and her opinions on domestic surveillance powers. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The government’s annual transparency report disclosing the warrantless data searches began in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures of the government spying on Americans. Snowden is pictured here at a November 2019 event in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Edward Snowden speaks during the opening night of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Sam Barnes / Web Summit via Sportsfile / Flickr / CC BY 2.0)
Hal Martin was responsible for one of the largest leaks of U.S government secrets, after it was found that the former NSA contractor possessed up to 50…