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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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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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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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Hit & Run, American Prospect and The PJ Tatler
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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Guardian, Yahoo! News, The Next Web, The Volokh Conspiracy, Politico, Business Insider and Lawfare
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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ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information
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protein wisdom, Lawfare, The Hill, The Volokh Conspiracy, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, Outside the Beltway, The Verge, RT and The Hill
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
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Wonkblog, Yahoo! News, Mashable, Business Insider, Guardian, The Daily Caller, The Next Web and Hit & Run
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
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ThinkProgress, The Week, Politico, emptywheel and msnbc.com
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, New York Times, The Week and The Hill
Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
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Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
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Business Insider
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping
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emptywheel, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
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Business Insider, Crooks and Liars, Forbes, The Week, susiemadrak.com, Firedoglake and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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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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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
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Crooks and Liars, The Hugh Hewitt Show, LewRockwell.com Blog and The Hinterland Gazette
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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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
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
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
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
Talking Points Memo:
Mike Lee Points To Patriot Act As Reason To Be Wary About Big Immigration Bill — In the midst of Senate floor debate on Friday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) argued against the so-called Gang of Eight's comprehensive immigration reform bill because its length and scope could have unintended consequences …
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ThinkProgress and Mediaite
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 …
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