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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, Mashable, 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, Mediaite, Hot Air, National Review and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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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 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, Lawfare, The Volokh Conspiracy, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, The Verge, RT and The Hill
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
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, The Next Web and Hit & Run
Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert 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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ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, Daily Mail, BBC, TechCrunch, Weasel Zippers, The Next Web, GigaOM and Engadget
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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ThinkProgress, emptywheel, Politico, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and msnbc.com
New York Times:
Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited
Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited
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Guardian, The Volokh Conspiracy, Politico, Business Insider and Lawfare
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
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Crooks and Liars, The Hugh Hewitt Show and LewRockwell.com Blog
New York Times:
President Obama's Dragnet
President Obama's Dragnet
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Revelations expose basic contradiction at heart of Obama's war on terror
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
Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
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Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping
James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping
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emptywheel, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
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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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, NewsBusters, JustOneMinute and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
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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Yahoo! News, Power Line, Hot Air, Washington Post and Forbes
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, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, The Week, The Hill and The PJ Tatler
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, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Business Insider, News Desk and TechCrunch
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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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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Michelle Malkin, Politico, Washington Examiner and Hot Air
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 …
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
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
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
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Commentator, Will Not Run For U.S. Senate
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