Wyden, notably, has been highly critical of the administration's surveillance programs in recent months.
Major research projects include randomized trials, cohort studies, and surveillance programs in Southern India.
"That's usually the justification law enforcement give us for wanting to increase surveillance programs in the city," he said.
Snowden has lived in exile in Russia since revealing secret US government surveillance programs in June 2013.
Greenwald and the Guardian have already been publishing documents outlining surveillance programs in Britain, and Greenwald has long declared his intention to continue publishing documents.
Field application of the "C-strain Riems" specific assay was proven with wild boar samples from surveillance programs in Germany and France.
In addition, allowing surreptitious surveillance of one form, even limited in scope and for a particular contingency, encourages government to expand such surveillance programs in the future.
Dr. Finkelstein is an epidemiologist with expertise in the design and conduct of randomized clinical trials, cohort studies, and surveillance programs in resource-limited settings.
Senator Rand Paul said he would try to challenge the NSA surveillance programs in court and Senator Mark Udall called for 'reopening' the Patriot Act to remove the legal foundation for broad surveillance sweeps.
Wyden said on Wednesday the House vote in July had been "a huge wake-up call", revealing the depth of opposition to government surveillance programs in the wake of Snowden's disclosures.
She said she put Assange and Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive details of N.S.A. surveillance programs, "in the same bucket — they both end up serving the strategic goals of Putin".
