article_snippet.sent: But the issue that made the senator a national figure two years ago – domestic snooping by the National Security Agency – is no longer on America's front-burner.
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article_snippet.sent: Both men spoke on condition of anonymity.
article_snippet.sent: In an interview Sunday with the blog 
article_snippet.sent: Bashar al-Assad, Ayatollah Khamenei and Bowe Bergdahl now occupy the space once dominated by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.