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6:15 PM ET, June 10, 2013

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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 …
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Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
Edward Snowden Is No Hero  —  Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former C.I.A. employee and current government contractor, has leaked news of National Security Agency programs that collect vast amounts of information about the telephone calls made by millions of Americans …
Daniel Ellsberg / Guardian:
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 …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Edward Snowden: 10 things to know  —  Edward Snowden burst in public view when the 29-year-old identified himself as the source of leaks about the National Security Agency's surveillance of Americans.  Here are 10 things to know about Snowden.  —  1. Doesn't have a high school diploma.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Barton Gellman, Glenn Greenwald feud over NSA leaker  —  The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald on Monday blasted investigative reporter Barton Gellman for making “false” claims about the man they shared as a source: Edward Snowden.  —  The public tiff between two journalists who have led …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
17,000 sign petition urging Obama to pardon NSA whistle-blower  —  More than 17,000 people have signed a petition urging President Obama to pardon the man who revealed details about two classified National Security Agency (NSA) programs.  —  The “Pardon Edward Snowden” …
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
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Big Brother isn't watching you
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Fox News analyst: ‘Bring back the death penalty’ for NSA leaker
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
James Clyburn: NSA Leaks Part Of Effort To “Embarrass” Obama
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
scmp.com:
Main menu  —  Iceland cannot grant US whisteblower Edward …
Discussion: immi.is, Guardian, KALW and The Daily Caller
Matt Schiavenza / The Atlantic Online:
Edward Snowden Shouldn't Have Gone to Hong Kong
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump: Edward Snowden ‘a bad guy’
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Hill
Washington Post:
Edward Snowden says motive behind leaks was to expose ‘surveillance state’
CBS News:
State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations  —  (CBS News) CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.  —  The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS …
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Bfearnowcbs / CBS DC:
CBS News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings
Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll: Democrat Markey Has 7-Point Lead Over Republican Gomez in Special General Election for U.S. Senate  —  Democratic Congressman Edward Markey holds a modest lead over Republican challenger Gabriel Gomez with just over two weeks to go before the special election …
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  June 10, 2013 - Booker Leads In First Look …
CNN:
Markey still up in Massachusetts Senate battle
Discussion: Politico
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic  —  Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy  —  OVERVIEW  —  A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
Apple:
Apple Special Event, June 10, 2013 … Shop the Apple Online Store (1-800-MY-APPLE), visit an Apple Retail Store, or find a reseller.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror  —  When confronted by far deadlier threats, Americans are much less willing to cede freedom and privacy.  —  The image is still powerful, isn't it?  —  So are the anger, and the memories.  —  Most Americans don't just remember …
Discussion: The Dish and Prairie Weather
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
In 2001, Obama Predicted “Majoritarian Check” On Mass Surveillance In PATRIOT Act  —  “When we come to the wiretap provisions for example if those laws start encroaching too much on people's privacy the average person, me, Joe, everybody starts griping an complaining.”  —  View Video ›
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Virginia delegate will be witness before grand jury in probe related to McDonnell  —  A Virginia state delegate has confirmed that he's been called to appear next month as a witness before a federal grand jury as part of an investigation related to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell.
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Stop Blaming the ‘Rogue Agents’  —  We can officially dispense with the notion that the targeting of tea-party groups began when a couple of rogue agents in the Internal Revenue Service's Cincinnati office set out to streamline their work.  —  The heart of the effort to target tea-party …
Discussion: Power Line and Conservatives4Palin
Mercury News:
BART's top-paid worker of 2012 never worked a day  —  With a gross salary of more than $333,000, BART's highest-paid employee last year wasn't its general manager, police chief or a worker who racked up gobs of overtime scrubbing grime from filthy train seats.
The Week:
How Obama's scandals could swing the GOP primaries  —  And why this is terrible news for Marco Rubio — and good news for Chris Christie  —  I  —  n America, we don't just pick presidents for who they are.  We sometimes elect them because they're the opposite of the last guy.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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Jerry Kammer / Front page feed:
Rubio, McCain, Reid Talk Strategy on Reform Bill
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama Returns to the War on Women
Discussion: National Review
Emma Alberici / ABC News:
Assange's political ambition
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Richard A. Viguerie / New York Times:
A Conservative Case for Prison Reform
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Reuters:
S&P revises U.S. credit outlook to ‘stable’ from negative
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and KALW
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Column: Mounting controversies are all about trust
Discussion: CNN and The Gateway Pundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney defends Obama remarks on NSA briefings to Congress
Discussion: Politico
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Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor in Classroom
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MJ Lee / Reuters:
Brown-Vitter bill struggling for support in Congress
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Conservatives as Defenders of the Media
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The Big Shrug
 

 
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