memeorandum: Week In Politics: Sifting Through Surveillance (NPR)

11:45 PM ET, June 8, 2013

Top Items:

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data — Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data - including figures on US collection — • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides — • Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Engadget, Mashable, The Moderate Voice, ViralRead, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, The Raw Story and American Spectator, more at Mediagazer »

ODNI Newsroom Feed:

DNI Statement on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — Over the last week we have seen reckless disclosures of intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe. In a rush to publish, media outlets have not given …

Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, The Hinterland Gazette, The Verge, Engadget, Mediaite, Business Insider, The Next Web and Hot Air, more at Mediagazer »

Politico:

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper condemns ‘rush to publish’ — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper criticized the news media Saturday for what he called a “rush to publish” information based on “reckless” leaks about the government surveillance tool PRISM.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, TIME and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

Details of secret Internet data collection program declassified — The head of U.S. intelligence released new details on Saturday about the federal government's secretive program to monitor Internet users. — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied that the program …

Discussion: The Hill

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials

Discussion: TechCrunch

Justin Stanfield Thomas / The Huffington Post:

Justin Stanfield Thomas Shot, Killed Accidentally By 4-Year-Old Son In Arizona — PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Authorities in northern Arizona say a 4-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his father at a Prescott Valley home. — Prescott Valley police say the shooting occurred just after noon Friday.

Discussion: Mediaite

Natalie Brand / KASW-TV:

PD: Boy, 4, accidentally shoots, kills father — PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at a home in Prescott Valley Friday, according to a spokesman for the Prescott Valley Police Dept. — Police have identified the victim as 35-year-old Justin Stanfield Thomas …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Business Insider

Peter Hamby / CNN:

First on CNN: Republican Party to step up outreach to evangelicals — (CNN) - The Republican National Committee has brought on a director of evangelical outreach to massage the party's complicated relationship with religious conservatives, GOP sources told CNN on Saturday.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog and GOP.com

JTA / Jerusalem Post:

Paris museum opens exhibit of Palestinian ‘martyrs’ — French government subsidizes museum which opens exhibition of 68 photos, entitled “Death,” of Palestinian suicide bombers. — A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers …

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs

John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:

NY Times A1 Story Wrongly Credits NSA's PRISM for Foiling Zazi Case — Yesterday both the NY Times and Reuters claimed the Zazi terror plot against New York subways was foiled by an NSA email collection program called PRISM. That was not the case. The key to stopping the Zazi plot …

Discussion: Althouse, Mediaite, americanthinker.com and The Verge

Bernie Becker / The Hill:

Cincinnati IRS staffer: D.C. showed interest in Tea Party cases — An IRS staffer in Cincinnati told congressional investigators that a Washington official was the driving force behind the targeting of Tea Party organizations in 2010, and showed unprecedented interest in those groups' tax-exempt applications.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and The Volokh Conspiracy

Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
IRS lawyer who oversaw conservative targeting is retiring and his Facebook page has been removed

Discussion: The PJ Tatler and National Review

Dr. Susan Berry / BREITBART.COM:

REPORT: HOMESCHOOLING GROWING SEVEN TIMES FASTER THAN PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT — As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home …

Discussion: americanthinker.com

NPR:

Week In Politics: Sifting Through Surveillance … Robert Siegel speaks with columnist David Brooks of The New York Times and Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker about this week's big disclosures of data collection by the National Security Agency. — ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Discussion: The Reaction and Prairie Weather