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3:40 PM ET, June 6, 2013

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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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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Julie Pace / bigstory.ap.org:
ADMINISTRATION DEFENDS COLLECTING PHONE RECORDS  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Administration defends collecting phone records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Verizon on offense behind the scenes  —  Officially, telecom giant Verizon has no comment about turning over millions of customers call logs to the government.  —  But behind the scenes, the company is vetting requests from senior Capitol Hill aides and others, asking Obama administration officials …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Lindsey Graham ‘glad’ NSA tracking phones  —  Frequent critic of the White House Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is defending the National Security Agency's reported collection of millions of Americans' phone calls, saying he's more concerned about terrorism.  —  “I'm glad the NSA is trying …
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Mike Rogers: ‘Legal’ NSA phone program ‘thwarted’ domestic terrorism plot  —  Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said today that phone records obtained by the National Security Agency “thwarted” a domestic terrorism plot “in the last few years.”
Discussion: Business Insider
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
'It's Called Protecting America': Senators Defend NSA On Phone Records
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Daily Caller
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Flashback: Obama Railed Against Monitoring Citizens Who Did Nothing Wrong
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Politico:   Dianne Feinstein on NSA: 'It's called protecting America'
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Report: Verizon providing all call records to U.S. under court order
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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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Chiesa is N.J. interim senator pick
Discussion: Yahoo! News, CNN and Post Politics
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Rep. Rush Holt enters NJ Senate race
Discussion: CNN and Yahoo! News
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
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.”
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, ThinkProgress and CNN
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Filibuster Ultimatum
Discussion: National Review
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
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 …
Jonathn Easley / The Hill:
Holder says ‘fatigue’ may eventually lead him to step aside  —  Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday said “fatigue” might eventually lead him to resign.  —  Holder made the comment during testimony at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee when pressed by Sen. Richard Shelby …
Discussion: Politico
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Kirk to Eric Holder: Is DOJ spying on Congress?
Discussion: Mediaite, Post Politics and Hot Air
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
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 …
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 …
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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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Terry McAuliffe Tests Obama Playbook in Virginia
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Focus On The Family Doesn't Want Transgender People To Use Bathrooms In Delaware
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Michael Linden / Center for American Progress:
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