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12:20 PM ET, June 7, 2013

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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 …
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.
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 …
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” …
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.
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.
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 …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act  —  An author of the controversial legislation keeps defending it — even though he's felt betrayed by related abuses three times.  —  Upon hearing that the FBI sought and received the phone data from millions …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
Discussion: Business Insider
Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
Discussion: American Prospect and Hit & Run
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
Discussion: Guardian, Hot Air, The Hill and Lawfare
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
BBC:
US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
Discussion: New York Times and Guardian
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
Discussion: Business Insider
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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New York Times:
States Should Decide Gay Marriage, Poll Finds
Discussion: National Review
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.
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
May Employment Report: 175,000 Jobs, 7.6% Unemployment Rate
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
 
 
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