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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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Guardian:
NSA taps in to user data of Facebook, Google and others, 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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Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Daniel W. Drezner, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, BuzzFeed, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Balloon Juice, Informed Comment, TIME, msnbc.com, BBC, Boing Boing, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, The Next Web, Taylor Marsh, The Hinterland Gazette, Pressing Issues, Associated Press, The Raw Story, The Week, The Atlantic Online, The Verge, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Samizdata, VodkaPundit, Hit & Run, Mashable and Politico
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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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:
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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Althouse, Right Turn, The Hugh Hewitt Show, National Review and Guardian
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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Hot Air, Mediaite, National Review and Althouse
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, Weekly Standard, Business Insider, 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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protein wisdom, The Volokh Conspiracy, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, 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
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
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NewsBusters, JustOneMinute, Twitchy, Gawker, Yahoo! News and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove
U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Yahoo! News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Huffington Post, Washington Examiner, Forbes, Outside the Beltway, Associated Press, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Mashable, Betsy's Page, Conservative Intelligence …, The Verge, Engadget, Guardian, The PJ Tatler and Patterico's Pontifications
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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emptywheel, Lawfare and alicublog
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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Crooks and Liars, The Week, susiemadrak.com, News Desk, Firedoglake, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Daily Kos and Towleroad News #gay
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
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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, Politico, Business Insider, The Hill, The PJ Tatler, ThinkProgress and GigaOM
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
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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Yahoo! News, Pressing Issues and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
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
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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Yahoo! News, ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Huffington Post, Guardian, National Review, The Week, GigaOM, Economix, Wonkblog, The Hill, Politico, Business Insider, News Desk, Weasel Zippers, AllThingsD, The Gateway Pundit, The Monkey Cage, Taegan Goddard's …, The Volokh Conspiracy, Balloon Juice, The Next Web, msnbc.com and TechCrunch
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner:
Author of Patriot Act: FBI's FISA Order is Abuse of Patriot Act
Author of Patriot Act: FBI's FISA Order is Abuse of Patriot Act
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msnbc.com, Hit & Run, Mediaite and Post Politics
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
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
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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The Atlantic Wire and Esquire
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
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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
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
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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Yahoo! News
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added 175,000 Jobs in May; Jobless Rate Rises to 7.6% — American employers added 175,000 jobs in May, almost exactly the average monthly job growth over the last year, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent.
Geraldo Rivera / Fox News:
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Commentator, Will Not Run For U.S. Senate — There is a scene in The Lord of the Rings where my favorite character, the aging, battle-weary Théoden, King of Rohan is confronted with a profound dilemma. Determined to honor his ancient oath and ride to the rescue …
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Ballot Box and CNN