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That, plus the legality issue, has left me wondering what harm actually was avoided when The Times and two other newspapers disclosed the program.

NSA officials feared there might eventually be a problem, and now there is a big one -- after a USA Today story last week disclosed the program.

After The New York Times disclosed the program in 2005 and questions were raised about its constitutionality, Congress in 2008 amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, granting broad power to the executive branch to conduct surveillance aimed at persons overseas without an individual warrant.

Since Mr. Snowden disclosed the program, the agency has said that while it gathers data on billions of calls, it makes only a few hundred queries in the database each year, when it has "reasonable, articulable suspicion" that a telephone number is connected to terrorism.

The intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden disclosed the program's existence in 2013, jolting the public and contributing to growing awareness of how both governments and private companies harvest and exploit personal data.

As earlier disclosed, the program will use blunt cash incentives to get servicers, lenders, investors and borrowers to rework distressed mortgages into ones with lower more manageable payments equal to 38% of a borrower's income.

Princeton said in a statement it had not used the money improperly, although it did not adequately disclose the program's nature to the foundation board.

"We're at war, and we must protect America's secrets," he said, adding that the Times' sources, by disclosing the program, had committed a "shameful act" that had undermined American security.

After disclosing the program last December, The New York Times also reported that the agency had gathered data from phone and e-mail traffic with the cooperation of several major telecommunications companies.

Since The New York Times first disclosed the eavesdropping program in December, some who witnessed the earlier era have followed the news with an eerie feeling that events are being replayed.

Witt defected to Iran on Aug. 28, 2013, according to the indictment, which says the Iranian government provided housing and computer services to facilitate her work, and that she disclosed the classified program's code name and mission.