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10:30 AM ET, June 10, 2013

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Guardian:
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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The Atlantic Online:
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 …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
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.
New York Times:
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.
Daniel Ellsberg / Guardian:
Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America |  Daniel Ellsberg  —  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 …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Greenwald Says 'There's A Lot More Coming,' Argues NSA Revelations Don't Harm Security  —  The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald on Monday defended the 29-year-old who served as the source of one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history, arguing that the revelations of the National Security …
Discussion: Hot Air
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What's the Deal with Hong Kong?  —  Having given some initial reactions to the Snowden revelation below, let me say a bit more about Snowden's decision to go to Hong Kong.  —  Let's start by saying that the US has very long arms when it comes to seeking the extradition of people who've broken the laws at quite Snowden's scale.
Discussion: Guardian and Business Insider
Guardian:
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: ‘I do not expect to see home again’  —  Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation - and what comes next  —  Edward Snowden was interviewed over several days in Hong Kong by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.
Booz Allen Hamilton:
Booz Allen Statement on Reports of Leaked Information
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
DOJ launches criminal probe of NSA leaker
Discussion: Politico
Brian Knowlton / The Caucus:
Feinstein ‘Open’ to Hearings on Surveillance Programs
Washington Post:
Edward Snowden identified as source of NSA leaks
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
NSA leaker reveals self, has no apologies
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
NSA whistleblower reveals his identity
Discussion: Politico
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
NSA Leaker Surfaces in Hong Kong
Discussion: Guardian and Weekly Standard
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 …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
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 …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Outside the Beltway
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Pallone to Enter Senate Race in New Jersey
Discussion: The Fix and Taegan Goddard's …
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
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.
IEA:
IEA report shows how to stop growth in energy-related emissions by 2020 at no net economic cost  —  Warning that the world is not on track to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA) today urged governments to swiftly enact four energy policies …
Discussion: Washington Post and Guardian
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.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove?
Politico:
Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid: 2 sides of same coin
Discussion: ABCNEWS and msnbc.com
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Government surveillance unconstitutional?  Reaction from Sens. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson and Gen. Michael Hayden
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Althouse
Simon Johnson / Bloomberg:
Next Debt-Ceiling Histrionics Could Do Real Harm
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to nominate Furman to lead economic council
Discussion: Politico, CNN and The Week
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