memeorandum: Top Tory in new Lobbygate row (The Sunday Times)

11:00 AM ET, June 9, 2013

Top Items:

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

Discussion: Activist Post, Pirate's Cove, Liberal Values, Engadget, ViralRead, Mashable, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, The Raw Story, BuzzFeed, American Spectator and Electronic Frontier Foundation

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, The Moderate Voice, The Verge, The Hinterland Gazette, Engadget, Mediaite, Business Insider, Mashable, The Next Web, Hot Air and The Hill

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Paul weighs Supreme Court challenge to NSA surveillance programs — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he would examine ways to block the National Security Agency's surveillance programs before the Supreme Court. — “I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” vowed Paul on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: CNN and Politico

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: TIME and Little Green Footballs, more at Mediagazer »

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Details of secret Internet data collection program declassified

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Verge

Gail Collins / New York Times:
Intelligence for Dummies

Discussion: Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog

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: The Moderate Voice, Business Insider and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

Dem senator skeptical call tracking needed to thwart terror threats — Democratic Sen. Mark Udall (Colo.) on Sunday expressed skepticism that the National Security Agency's massive phone tracking program was really necessary to help the government thwart possible terrorist attacks.

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Alan M. Dershowitz / Jerusalem Post:

Analysis: Syria crisis shows why Israel must remain strong — Whether Syrian death toll is 80,000 or 100,000, this figure is more than all people killed in nearly a century of conflict between Israel and its enemies, including several wars and thousands of acts of terrorism.

Discussion: Israel Matzav

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

IRS Staff Undermine GOP Claims That White House Directed Targeting Of Conservative Groups, Top Democrat Says — Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) — the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — pledged to release transcripts of interviews with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

The Sunday Times:

Top Tory in new Lobbygate row — MP coached client before committee grilling — Insight — Tim Yeo is chairman of the parliamentary energy and climate change committee — THE Tory MP in charge of scrutinising new energy laws has been caught boasting about how he can use his leadership …

Discussion: Guardian, BBC and Spectator

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: The Hill, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and No More Mister Nice Blog

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

On the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, a Rather Familiar Cast of Characters — WASHINGTON — In mid-February, Senator John McCain went on the NBC program “Meet the Press” to explain his unhappiness with President Obama's nominee for defense secretary. A week later, he took to “State of the Union” …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Politico

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: Althouse, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and The Volokh Conspiracy