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 As pressure mounts for the intelligence community to curb its surveillance activities or at least make them more transparent, a key National Security Agency official will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, National Security Agency director and head of U.S. Cyber Command, will testify before the full committee in a previously-scheduled session, marking the first time an NSA official will answer to Congress in public since news broke that the agency is collecting all of Verizon s U.S. phone records, as well as internet content from non-U.S. internet users abroad. Lawmakers question legal basis for NSA surveillanceMcConnell on NSA leaker:  I hope he is prosecuted     Most disapprove of gov t phone snooping of ordinary Americans    In addition to Alexander, others testifyin stanley cups g include Rand Beers, acting deputy Homeland Security Secretary; Patrick Gallagher, acting deputy Commerce Secretary and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Richard McFeely, executive assistant director of the FBI s criminal, cyber, response, and services branch.                                         Intelligence officials have been holding closed-door briefings with members of Congress this we stanley tumblers ek, getting them up to speed on the NSA s sweeping  stanley uk surveillance methods. After a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing on Wednesday, vice chairman of the committee Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., called Alexander  very straightforward Ssfr Kerry: Bush Is   Unfit To Lead
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 A sunny afternoon by the pool was interrupted by a black bear in central Massachusetts recently.Matt Bete is taking a pool-side nap at his home in Greenfield, when a small bear wanders into his backyard. The gate was left open and the bear is seen on cameracasually walking over to the pool for a drink.The bear then sniffs around, walks over to the chair, and uses his paw to nudge Betes foot.                Bete was clearly surprised to see who had interrupted his nap. From the video, the bear was shocked, too, running away.A few seconds later, the bear cautiously wanders closer to a  stanley thermobecher now-awak stanley cup e Bete, who is holding up his cell phone to capture images of the animal. Then the animal runs off for good. Matt just stayed calm and knew he had a chair and stool there to protect him if he needed it,  sai stanley water jug d Matts wife, Dawn Bete, to CBS Boston.  Just crazy!