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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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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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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
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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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.
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 …
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program — ACCORDING TO Senate overseers of America's intelligence community, the federal government has been collecting massive quantities of so-called metadata about Americans' phone calls for seven years.
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Business Insider
Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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The Next Web, ThinkProgress, The Hill, The PJ Tatler and Business Insider
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times changes scathing editorial
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Leaks Overshadow Obama's Meeting With President of China
Leaks Overshadow Obama's Meeting With President of China
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New York Times and TechCrunch
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
NSA secretly mining user data from U.S. Internet giants
NSA secretly mining user data from U.S. Internet giants
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CBS Denver, Business Insider, Politico, TalkLeft and The Next Web
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
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Hot Air, The Hill, Lawfare and Balkinization
BBC:
US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
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New York Times and Guardian
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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Guardian:
PRISM scandal: tech giants flatly deny allowing NSA direct access to servers
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
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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The Agonist and Marginal Revolution
Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
The New York Times Quietly Softened Its Scathing Obama Editorial
The New York Times Quietly Softened Its Scathing Obama Editorial
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Allison Sherry / The Spot:
Sen. Mark Udall: I knew the NSA was spying, did everything but leak classified information to stop it
Sen. Mark Udall: I knew the NSA was spying, did everything but leak classified information to stop it
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Hullabaloo, Mediaite and Post Politics
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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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
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
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Hot Air, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Signs Sony Up for iRadio, Now Has All Three Major Music Labels On Board — Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service, according to a person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. — The deal means Apple now has agreements with all three major music labels.
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TechCrunch and The Verge