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1:30 PM ET, May 11, 2006

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USA Today:
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls  —  The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Another Day, Another National Security Leak  —  Is anyone surprised the rogue CIA and their media counterparts are leaking more information and spinning it to sound really, really bad: … Emphasis mine because there are wo things to note.  First off most recordings related to a warranted search cover the innocent.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Qwest: Good Corporate Behavior Should Be Rewarded  —  I read this post from Atrios on the big telcos cooperating with the NSA and was just about to shrug my shoulders about the latest outrage.  Then I actually read the article and something jumped out - these companies have a choice in whether …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Confederate Yankee
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE FOR THE LEAKERS  —  There are apparently no limits to which the cadre of leakers who are working in our intelligence agencies will go to undermine legitimate national security interests in furtherance of their own, private agendas.
Associated Press:
Bush: We're not trolling your personal life  —  Lawmakers demand answers on phone records report  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans and Democrats demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a government spy agency secretly collecting records …
Confederate Yankee:
And?  —  USA Today has packaged a story today about a massive National Security Agency call database in such a way as to make it sound quite sinister, but isn't this what we pay them to do? … Read those two key sentence again: … The headline is somewhat—and likely purposefully—misleading.
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Kos
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls  —  USA Today has the banner headline "NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls."  The actual story, alas, is much less dramatic: … So, the government has my phone records?  Sure, I trust mega-corporations who sell …
Jim Watson / MSNBC:
Bush defends spying after NSA database report  —  Agency collecting information on tens of millions of Americans, paper says  —  Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, listens to a reporter's question after meeting with Sen. John Warner, W-Va., on Monday.
USA Today:
Questions and answers about the NSA phone record collection program
Discussion: TalkLeft
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:   No need for Congress, no need for courts
Orin Kerr / OrinKerr.com:   Thoughts on the Legality of the Latest NSA Surveillance Program
Michelle Malkin:
NEWSFLASH: NSA DOING ITS JOB!
Discussion: Power Line and Stop The ACLU
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Bush Addresses Reports About NSA Activity
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Democrats Are Fractured Over Strategy, Funds  —  Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have clashed angrily in recent days in a dispute about how the party should spend its money in advance of this fall's midterm elections.
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Joshua Lynsen / washblade.com:
Dean slams gay marriage on '700 Club'  —  DNC chair misstates party platform, angering gay Democrats, activists  —  Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean has contradicted his party's platform and infuriated gay rights advocates by saying the party's platform states "marriage is between a man and a woman."
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Peter Pae / Los Angeles Times:
Lewis Surfaces in Probe of Cunningham  —  Federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into Rep. Jerry Lewis, the Californian who chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, government officials and others said, signaling the spread of a San Diego corruption probe.
MSNBC:
Bush: Brother Jeb would be 'great president'  —  Sen. Trent Lott tells Hardball he would 'not be supportive' of the candidacy  —  ORLANDO, Fla. - President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.
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Agence France Presse:
Brother Jeb would make 'great' US president: Bush
Washington Post:
Hard-Core Republicans Are Fleeing President  —  Conservatives Point to Spending, Immigration  —  Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings …
Washington Post:
Plan to Give D.C. a Vote In Congress Advances  —  Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is teaming up with U.S. Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) to introduce a bill that would for the first time give the District a full vote in Congress, a sign of bipartisan cooperation that advocates of D.C. voting rights hailed as a breakthrough.
Orin Kerr / OrinKerr.com:
Does Michael Hayden Understand the Fourth Amendment?  —  Over at National Review Online, Adam White defends the new nominee to lead the CIA, General Michael Hayden, for his statements about the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.  The statements have apparently become an important issue in the debate over Hayden's nomination.
 
 
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