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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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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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Yahoo! News, Althouse, National Review, The Week, Outside the Beltway, Right Turn, The Atlantic Wire, Guardian and The Hill
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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Washington Examiner, Hot Air, Mediaite, National Review and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Guardian:
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Facebook, Yahoo and others — • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook — • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
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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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BuzzFeed, more at Mediagazer »
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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Wonkblog, Yahoo! News, Mashable, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Weekly Standard, The Next Web and Hit & Run
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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protein wisdom, The Volokh Conspiracy, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, The Verge and RT
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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American Prospect, Hit & Run and The PJ Tatler
New York Times:
President Obama's Dragnet
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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ThinkProgress, emptywheel, Politico, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and msnbc.com
Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
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ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, BBC, TechCrunch, Weasel Zippers, The Next Web, Engadget, GigaOM and Boing Boing
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
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Crooks and Liars, LewRockwell.com Blog and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Revelations expose basic contradiction at heart of Obama's war on terror
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Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, New York Times and The Huffington Post
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping
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emptywheel, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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The Next Web, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, The Week, The Hill and The PJ Tatler
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
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Business Insider
Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
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Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, NewsBusters, JustOneMinute, Twitchy and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
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Power Line, Hot Air, Washington Post, Forbes and The Hill
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
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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Crooks and Liars, The Week, susiemadrak.com, Firedoglake, Business Insider, Daily Kos, News Desk, TechCrunch and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
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Business Insider
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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CBS DC, Yahoo! News, LifeNews.com, The PJ Tatler, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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Conservative Intelligence …
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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Washington Monthly
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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Politico and Colorlines
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Geraldo Rivera / Fox News:
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Commentator, Will Not Run For U.S. Senate
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CNN
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 and Hot Air
Talking Points Memo:
Mike Lee Points To Patriot Act As Reason To Be Wary About Big Immigration Bill — In the midst of Senate floor debate on Friday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) argued against the so-called Gang of Eight's comprehensive immigration reform bill because its length and scope could have unintended consequences …
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