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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 …
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CNN, Little Green Footballs, New Republic, The Strata-Sphere, Yahoo! News, Telegraph, Washington Times and Business Insider
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 …
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Washington Post, FishbowlDC and The Hinterland Gazette, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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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.
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ThinkProgress, BBC, Firedoglake and Pressing Issues
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” …
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Politico, Reuters, CNN, Red Alert Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gawker, Post Politics and Mashable
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.
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Irin Carmon / Salon:
How we broke the NSA story — Exclusive: Laura Poitras tells Salon about getting contacted by Edward Snowden, and reveals more footage is coming — Shortly after Salon's biographical sketch on Laura Poitras went live, the award-winning documentary filmmaker agreed to a phone interview …
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Guardian, Pressing Issues and Business Insider
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Fox News analyst: ‘Bring back the death penalty’ for NSA leaker
Fox News analyst: ‘Bring back the death penalty’ for NSA leaker
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Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post
New York Times:
Booz Allen Grew Rich on Government Contracts
Booz Allen Grew Rich on Government Contracts
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Rand Paul / CNN:
Ron Paul gives thanks for leaker
Ron Paul gives thanks for leaker
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Politico, Campaign for Liberty and Activist Post
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Snowden Warned WashPost Reporter: U.S. Intel Community ‘Will Most Certainly Kill You...’
Snowden Warned WashPost Reporter: U.S. Intel Community ‘Will Most Certainly Kill You...’
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
James Clyburn: NSA Leaks Part Of Effort To “Embarrass” Obama
James Clyburn: NSA Leaks Part Of Effort To “Embarrass” Obama
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Weasel Zippers
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Big Brother isn't watching you
Big Brother isn't watching you
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Guardian, Hot Dish Politics, New Republic and American Spectator
scmp.com:
Main menu — Iceland cannot grant US whisteblower Edward …
Main menu — Iceland cannot grant US whisteblower Edward …
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immi.is, Guardian, KALW and The Daily Caller
Douglas Rushkoff / CNN:
Edward Snowden is a hero
Edward Snowden is a hero
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Matt Schiavenza / The Atlantic Online:
Edward Snowden Shouldn't Have Gone to Hong Kong
Edward Snowden Shouldn't Have Gone to Hong Kong
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Yahoo! News, New York Times and Little Green Footballs
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
CBS News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings
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Nice Deb, Outside the Beltway and Michelle Malkin
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 …
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Yahoo! News, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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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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Weekly Standard and Washington Wire
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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 …
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The Dish and Prairie Weather
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.
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Associated Press, The Maddow Blog, Yahoo! News and First Read
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 ›
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Hot Air, Hit & Run, CBS DC and Weasel Zippers
Kieran Healy:
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere — London, 1772. — I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty's subjects.
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Balloon Juice
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.
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National Review, Red Alert Politics and Doug Ross
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama Returns to the War on Women — RUSH: Guess what he's out doing today? He's back on the War on Women. He's revving that back up. It's some 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act or some such thing and he's out there talking about women bringing home the bacon but they don't get the bacon.
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National Review
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 …
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Power Line and Conservatives4Palin