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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 …
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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
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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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Right Turn, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Althouse and National Review
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.
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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Guardian, Business Insider, Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Hit & Run and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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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Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Hill, The Verge, Yahoo! News and RT
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama — The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration for collecting phone call data from Americans to make it less stinging shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon.
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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 …
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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.”
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Crooks and Liars, The Week, susiemadrak.com, News Desk, Firedoglake, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Daily Kos and Towleroad News #gay
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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Lawfare, alicublog and emptywheel
Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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The Next Web, Business Insider, The Hill, The PJ Tatler and ThinkProgress
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
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Business Insider
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
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Hot Air, The Hill, Lawfare and Balkinization
Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
The New York Times Quietly Softened Its Scathing Obama Editorial
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Yahoo! News, Pressing Issues and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
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Business Insider
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
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Politico, Hot Air, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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BBC:
US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
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New York Times and Guardian
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Leaks Overshadow Obama's Meeting With President of China
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New York Times and TechCrunch
Guardian:
PRISM scandal: tech giants flatly deny allowing NSA direct access to servers
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Business Insider, Gawker, Weasel Zippers, Reuters and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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Marginal Revolution and The Agonist
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
NSA secretly mining user data from U.S. Internet giants
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Business Insider, Politico, CBS Denver, TalkLeft and The Next Web
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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Pirate's Cove
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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
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 …
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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Yahoo! News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Rupert Darwall / Wall Street Journal:
Global Warming and the Gipper — Critics of America's policy on carbon emissions accuse it of being a prisoner of free-market ideology. On the contrary, it was the product of hardheaded pragmatism. — Might it be that it was Ronald Reagan and not Barack Obama who began to slow the rise of the seas?
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National Review
Governor Peter Shumlin:
GOV. SHUMLIN SIGNS BILL DECRIMINALIZING POSSESSION OF LIMITED AMOUNTS OF MARIJUANA — Vermont became the 17th state in the nation today to eliminate criminal penalties for the possession of small amounts of marijuana when Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law legislation decriminalizing possession …
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ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh and Firedoglake
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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American Spectator, Politicker and Daily Kos
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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
‘Soon’: Charlie Rangel Predicts the Death of the Republican Party — Charlie Rangel. (Photo: Getty) — The Grand Old Party will collapse in the near future, veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel prognosticates. — “There are a lot of Republicans that I know are not proud of this period …
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