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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations — The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows — • Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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Edward Snowden in Hong Kong — I'm glad we have this information; I am sorry we are getting it from Hong Kong. — Three points: — 1) I believe what I wrote two days ago: that the United States and the world have gained much more, in democratic accountability, than they have lost …
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CANNONFIRE, Pressing Issues and Talking Points Memo
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Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks — He called me BRASSBANNER, a code name in the double-barreled style of the National Security Agency, where he worked in the signals intelligence directorate. — Verax was the name he chose for himself, “truth teller” in Latin.
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Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America — Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an ‘executive coup’ against the US constitution — In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release …
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Booz Allen Grew Rich on Government Contracts — WASHINGTON — Edward J. Snowden's employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, has become one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States almost exclusively by serving a single client: the government of the United States.
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Donald Trump: Edward Snowden ‘a bad guy’ — Edward Snowden, the man who says he leaked national security documents is a “bad guy,” Donald Trump said Monday. — “I didn't like him, to me he looks like a grandstander,” Trump said on Fox News. — Trump added that there are “no winners” …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Greenwald: NSA leak doesn't jeopardize national security — Greenwald accused the government of trying to “scare the American public.” — Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's phone and internet surveillance programs …
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Greenwald Says 'There's A Lot More Coming,' Argues NSA Revelations Don't Harm Security
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What's the Deal with Hong Kong?
What's the Deal with Hong Kong?
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Guardian:
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: ‘I do not expect to see home again’
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: ‘I do not expect to see home again’
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Julian Borger / Guardian:
Edward Snowden's choice of Hong Kong as haven is a high-stakes gamble
Edward Snowden's choice of Hong Kong as haven is a high-stakes gamble
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Brian Knowlton / The Caucus:
Feinstein ‘Open’ to Hearings on Surveillance Programs
Feinstein ‘Open’ to Hearings on Surveillance Programs
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Guardian:
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' - video
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' - video
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
NSA leaker reveals self, has no apologies
NSA leaker reveals self, has no apologies
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
NSA whistleblower reveals his identity
NSA whistleblower reveals his identity
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Politico and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Release Detail — June 10, 2013 - Booker Leads In First Look At New Jersey Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Christie Buries Buono 2-1 — Newark Mayor Cory Booker has substantial leads over relatively unknown Democratic primary and general election opponents in a first look …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Pallone to Enter Senate Race in New Jersey
Pallone to Enter Senate Race in New Jersey
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Shrug — I've been in this economics business for a while. In fact, I've been in it so long I still remember what people considered normal in those long-ago days before the financial crisis. Normal, back then, meant an economy adding a million or more jobs each year …
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Leaking Secrets Empowers Terrorists — The NSA's surveillance program doesn't do damage. Revealing it does. — Once again, the tanks-have-rolled left and the black-helicopters right have joined together in howls of protest. They were set off by last week's revelations that the U.S. government …
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh and Pirate's Cove
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Hillary Clinton Favorability Slips Slightly — Unfavorable views up to 39%, from 31% in April — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hillary Clinton's favorability rating fell slightly in June to 58%, from 64% in April. That is the first sub-60% rating Americans have given her since 2008.
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Karzai: US Must ‘Explain’ to Muslims Why Radicalism Is Growing Amid War on Terror — (CNSNews.com) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is asking whether an increase in radicalism across an Islamic world “in turmoil” is the result of the U.S.-led campaign against terror.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Hundreds in government had advance word of Medicare action at heart of trading-spike probe — Hundreds of federal employees were given advance word of a Medicare decision worth billions of dollars to private insurers in the weeks before the official announcement, a period when trading in the shares of those firms spiked.
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