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8:55 AM ET, June 7, 2013

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Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program  —  The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …
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New York Times:
President Obama's Dragnet  —  Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …
Guardian:
NSA taps into internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal  —  • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple  —  • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA  —  The Guardian and The Washington Post articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  They contain numerous inaccuracies.
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge  —  “We have never heard of PRISM,” an Apple spokesman said.  “We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.”
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove  —  NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, as Well as Online Activity  —  WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches …
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information  —  The highest priority of the Intelligence Community is to work within the constraints of law to collect, analyze and understand information related to potential threats to our national security.
Wall Street Journal:
Thank You for Data-Mining  —  The NSA's ‘metadata’ surveillance is legal and necessary.  —  Well, another day, another Washington furor.  This one is over a National Security Agency phone data monitoring program, but unlike the other White House scandals there seems to be little here that is scandalous.
Discussion: Althouse and Guardian
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program  —  ACCORDING TO Senate overseers of America's intelligence community, the federal government has been collecting massive quantities of so-called metadata about Americans' phone calls for seven years.
Discussion: Business Insider
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
NSA secretly mining user data from U.S. Internet giants  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  A top-secret arm of the controversial Stellar Wind program set up in the wake of 9/11 is allowing the National Security Agency and the FBI to tap directly into the central servers of nine major Internet companies …
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
Discussion: Politico, JustOneMinute, Twitchy and Gawker
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Leaks Overshadow Obama's Meeting With President of China
Discussion: New York Times and TechCrunch
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
The Huffington Post:   NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Stunning Extent Of Spying Operation
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
President Obama's let's-have-a-debate defense  —  The Obama administration has a familiar refrain on the surveillance of Americans' telephone records: the president and his team are eager to have the debate.  —  Eager, that is, only after others have brought the tactics to light and the administration has spent years employing them.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
George W.  'Bush's 4th term'  —  The outrage over President Barack Obama's authorization of a nearly limitless federal dive into Americans' phone records obscures a hiding-in-plain-sight truth about the 44th president many of his supporters have overlooked for years:
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Taegan Goddard's …
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and Townhall.com
Matthew Arco / Politicker NJ:
Christie appoints Chiesa to fill Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat  —  TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie tapped state Attorney General Jeff Chiesa as New Jersey's next U.S. senator.  —  Chiesa, 47, will serve in the U.S. Senate until residents elect someone to replace him during the Oct. 16 special election.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
In Gay Marriage Debate, Both Supporters and Opponents See Legal Recognition as ‘Inevitable’  —  OVERVIEW  —  As support for gay marriage continues to increase, nearly three-quarters of Americans - 72% - say that legal recognition of same-sex marriage is “inevitable.”
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Booed As They Vote To Deport DREAMers  —  To a chorus of boos from the gallery, House Republicans voted 224-201 on Thursday to approve an amendment that defunds the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  The amendment, from Rep. Steve King (R-IA) …
Discussion: The Hill and The Plum Line
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
'It's Called Protecting America': Senators Defend NSA On Phone Records  —  The top two senators on the Intelligence Committee on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone records after it was reported in The Guardian.  —  “It is lawful.
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Reuters:
Al-Qaida leader Zawahri urges Syrians: Unite against Assad and bring down Israel-backing U.S.
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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
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Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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Esther Williams, Who Swam to Movie Fame, Dies at 91
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
Lee Fang / The Nation:
Revealed: Letters From Republicans Seeking Obamacare Money
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Impolitic
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAIL TO BREAK EVEN ONE OF FOUR OBAMA SCANDALS
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Power Line
The Daily Beast:
Susan Rice and John Kerry Will Battle For Obama's Ear
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Discussion: ThinkProgress and Yahoo! News
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Atheist Chaplains Would Call Fallen Soldiers ‘Worm Food,’ GOP Congressman Says (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Raw Story
Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Mike Rogers: NSA program helped stop a terrorist attack in the U.S. in ‘the last few years’
 

 
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