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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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Guardian:
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others — • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Skype and Yahoo — • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 — The National Security Agency …
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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.
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New York Times:
Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak — After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation — No healthy democracy can endure when the most consequential acts of those in power remain secret and unaccountable — We followed Wednesday's story about the NSA's bulk telephone record-gathering with one yesterday …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times changes scathing editorial — The New York Times editorial board has quietly changed the language in the most widely cited line from Thursday's scathing editorial about the Obama administration's surveillance of U.S. citizens. — The line — “The administration has now lost all credibility” …
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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.
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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 …
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William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA — The government's phone surveillance isn't Orwellian. It's limited and supervised. — You don't need a wiretap to hear what people are saying about the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program. The program's details …
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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.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
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Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
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Michelle Malkin, Politico, Washington Examiner and Hot Air
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
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Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
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Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
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Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
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New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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Reuters:
Misfired 2010 email alerted IRS officials in Washington of targeting — (Reuters) - A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati alerted a number of Washington IRS officials that extra scrutiny was being placed on conservative groups in July 2010 …
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Bloomberg:
Why Obama Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court — In cases before the Supreme Court last year, President Barack Obama's Justice Department relied on outlandish legal theories that pushed a constitutional interpretation of extreme federal power. That posture led to unanimous losses in three …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
George W. Bush critics turn wrath on President Obama — A club of Capitol Hill liberals made life hell for George W. Bush in his second term. — Now the gang is back — and they don't care that this time the president is their guy. — In the last few weeks, some of the loudest anti-Bush voices …
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Taylor Marsh and White House Dossier
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why Republicans Can Get Away With Ignoring Their Problems — The GOP can enjoy another strong midterm election in 2014 without doing much more to attract young or minority voters. — Republicans have a problem with young voters. Democrats have a problem with young nonvoters.
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added 175,000 Jobs in May; Jobless Rate Rises to 7.6% — American employers added 175,000 jobs in May, almost exactly the average monthly job growth over the last year, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent.
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
May Employment Report: 175,000 Jobs, 7.6% Unemployment Rate
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Geraldo Rivera rules out Senate bid in New Jersey special election — In a Fox News Latino column, Rivera compares running against Newark Mayor Cory Booker to a battle in the “Lord of the Rings” books, saying the race would “be as one-sided as Théoden faced when leading his riders against Mordor.”
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Geraldo Rivera / Fox News:
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Commentator, Will Not Run For U.S. Senate
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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.
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