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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 PRISM program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others — • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Skype and Yahoo — • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 — The National Security Agency …
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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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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, Outside the Beltway, Right Turn 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.
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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Business Insider, Weekly Standard, Mashable, The Daily Caller, 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, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, The Verge, Yahoo! News and RT
Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gaining secret intelligence via NSA operation — Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme — The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence …
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Yahoo! News, The Next Web, Engadget, GigaOM and Boing Boing
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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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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ThinkProgress, Politico, emptywheel and alicublog
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and LewRockwell.com Blog
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
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Michelle Malkin, Politico, Hot Air and Mediaite
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
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
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Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Next Web, Politico, The Hill, The Week, ThinkProgress and The PJ Tatler
William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
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Hit & Run and American Prospect
BBC:
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
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Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
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Business Insider
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 »
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner:
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
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New York Times and TechCrunch
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, CBS DC, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
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, White House Dossier and BuzzFeed
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 …
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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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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