US Surveillance Coverage Wins Pulitzer Prize

Two newspapers that revealed U.S. government secrets about spying by the National Security Agency -- The Washington Post and Britain's The Guardian -- will share this year's Pulitzer Prize for public service.Their stories, based on thousands of secret documents handed over by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, touched off a furious debate in the U.S. over privacy versus security, and led President Barack Obama to impose limits on the surveillance.The Pulitzers are the...

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