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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.
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.
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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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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New York Times:
Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surveillance programs revealed this week, and sought to reassure the public that his administration has not become a Big Brother with eyes and ears throughout the world of online communications.
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William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
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Hit & Run, American Prospect and The PJ Tatler
Guardian:
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Facebook, Yahoo and others
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
President Obama's let's-have-a-debate defense
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Pirate's Cove and Hot Air
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Revelations expose basic contradiction at heart of Obama's war on terror
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Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, Business Insider, Hot Air, New York Times and The Hill
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
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
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emptywheel, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
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 …
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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U.S. News:
Texas woman arrested in ricin letters to Obama, Bloomberg: Officials — A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to President Obama, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, federal authorities said.
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Politico and The Raw Story
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 …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama — To an increasing degree, we're counting on having angels in office and making ourselves vulnerable to devils. — Let's assume that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their staffers …
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Massive Government Spying Is The Result Of A Public Obsessed With Eliminating Terrorism — The revelations about massive National Security Agency snooping in Americans' phone records and Internet activities appear to be shocking, but they aren't. — The reason programs like these exist …
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Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
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Michelle Malkin, Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, Washington Examiner and Politico
Washington Wire:
Transcript: Obama's Remarks on NSA Controversy — President Barack Obama on Friday defended his administration's vast data-collection efforts, saying the programs help prevent terrorist attacks and represent only small encroachments of people's privacy. Here is the transcript of his remarks …
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Yahoo! News, Wall Street Journal and Hit & Run
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
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Soldier Told Not to Read Levin, Limbaugh or Hannity in Uniform — A veteran member of the U.S. Army Band said he is facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh …
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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
Fox News:
‘Uhhh...Uh...Uhhh....People!’ Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech — President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words. Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.
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Little Green Footballs and The PJ Tatler
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Slips in Poll After Benghazi Hits, Christie's Up — Hillary Clinton hasn't decided whether she'll run for president in 2016, a status that doesn't matter to the brewing class of potential Republican candidates already running against her. — And, in the pre-campaign posturing …
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Washington Wire and CNN
Monte Whaley / Denver Post:
New state: Weld County floats secession plan for northeastern Colorado — Weld County's bid to divorce Colorado and form its own state is a powerful rebuke of Front Range interests that no longer align with rural parts of the state, supporters of the idea say.
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