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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily — Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama — • Read the Verizon court order in full here — • Obama administration justifies surveillance
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Guardian:
Verizon forced to hand over telephone data - full court ruling — The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order
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New York Times:
U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
White House defends NSA collecting Verizon phone records — The White House on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's use of a secret court order to collect telephone records from millions of Verizon customers. — An administration official called the phone data a …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
What You Should Know About The Government's Massive Domestic Surveillance Program — The Guardian newspaper revealed on Wednesday night that the National Security Administration (NSA) is collecting information about the telephone records of millions of Americans through a warrant obtained …
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Associated Press:
White House defends collecting phone records — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats.”
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Unknown Patriot Who Exposed the Government's Verizon Spy Program — In praise of whistle-blowers whose risky disclosures of official wrongdoing make the nation stronger rather than weaker — The federal government forced Verizon to turn over information on the phone calls of millions …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
'It's Called Protecting America': Senators Defend NSA On Phone Records
'It's Called Protecting America': Senators Defend NSA On Phone Records
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Lindsey Graham ‘glad’ NSA tracking phones
Lindsey Graham ‘glad’ NSA tracking phones
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Marc Ambinder / The Week:
U.S. responds to NSA disclosures
U.S. responds to NSA disclosures
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Verizon on offense behind the scenes
Verizon on offense behind the scenes
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama administration defends Verizon records order
Obama administration defends Verizon records order
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC's Pete Williams: DOJ Will ‘Very Likely’ Investigate Guardian Scoop
NBC's Pete Williams: DOJ Will ‘Very Likely’ Investigate Guardian Scoop
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Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Mike Rogers: ‘Legal’ NSA phone program ‘thwarted’ domestic terrorism plot
Mike Rogers: ‘Legal’ NSA phone program ‘thwarted’ domestic terrorism plot
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Guardian:
Obama administration defends NSA collection of Verizon phone records
Obama administration defends NSA collection of Verizon phone records
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Matt Stout / Boston Herald:
Manhunt over, Deval Patrick tied one on — Candid gov discusses attacks — By: — Gov. Deval Patrick gave a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the horrific days after the Boston Marathon bombings, telling employees at a Cambridge marketing firm yesterday he got “quite drunk” the day after the intense manhunt finally ended.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Gov. Deval Patrick says he got drunk after bomber captured
Wall Street Journal:
IRS Staff Cite Washington Link — Two Workers Tell Congress That Agency Officials Helped Direct Tea-Party Reviews — Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency's Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Report Says IRS Approved Tax-Exempt Status For Twice as Many Conservative Groups as Liberal Groups — Here's an interesting tidbit from the newsletter Tax Notes. As we all know by now, the IRS applies extra scrutiny to a group applying for tax-exempt status if it suspects the group is political in nature.
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Politico:
GOP to Darrell Issa: Cool it — Shortly after Darrell Issa dubbed Jay Carney a “paid liar” on CNN last Sunday, House Republican leadership staffers called the California Republican's aides with a message: Cool it. — Issa's aides promptly responded: The remark was over the top, they agreed …
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Mark Murray / First Read:
Health care law's unpopularity reaches new highs — President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. — The poll shows 49 percent …
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New York Times:
Christie Picks Chiesa, New Jersey's Attorney General, to Be Interim Senator — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Thursday announced the appointment of Jeffrey S. Chiesa, the state's attorney general, to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank R. Lautenberg.
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Bloomberg:
Gay Marriage Gains Ground in Poll as Court Readies Ruling — More than half of Americans support allowing same-sex couples to marry, endorsing the goal of gay-rights activists as the U.S. Supreme Court this month prepares to rule on the issue for the first time.
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Virginia candidate E.W. Jackson: Yoga leads to Satan — E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, suggested that yoga could open individuals to Satan, according to a report. — Accompanying a profile of Jackson, who has been a thorn in the side …
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Betsy Woodruff / National Review:
Virginia's Republican Lt. Gov. Candidate Wrote an Interesting Book
Virginia's Republican Lt. Gov. Candidate Wrote an Interesting Book
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes to defund Obama's ‘administrative amnesty’ for immigrants — The House voted Thursday morning to defund President Obama's orders that allow officials to focus deportation efforts on illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes. — Republicans have argued that these orders amount …
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Maria Sacchetti / The Boston Globe:
Mass. pair sues New York Post over Marathon bombing portrayal — A Massachusetts teenager and his 24-year-old friend filed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Post Wednesday in Boston, accusing the tabloid of falsely portraying them as suspects in the deadly Marathon bombings by plastering …
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Michael Linden / Center for American Progress:
It's Time to Hit the Reset Button on the Fiscal Debate — Endnotes and citations are available in the PDF version of this report. — The federal budget has dominated the policy and political debate in Washington over the past three years. During this time, both the underlying fiscal landscape …
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