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11:20 AM ET, June 7, 2013

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Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program  —  The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …
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Guardian:
NSA taps in to user data of Facebook, Google and others, secret files reveal  —  • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple  —  • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
New York Times:
President Obama's Dragnet  —  Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …
New York Times:
Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak  —  After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.
Wall Street Journal:
Thank You for Data-Mining  —  The NSA's ‘metadata’ surveillance is legal and necessary.  —  Well, another day, another Washington furor.  This one is over a National Security Agency phone data monitoring program, but unlike the other White House scandals there seems to be little here that is scandalous.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times changes scathing editorial  —  The New York Times editorial board has quietly changed the language in the most widely cited line from Thursday's scathing editorial about the Obama administration's surveillance of U.S. citizens.  —  The line — “The administration has now lost all credibility” …
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA  —  The Guardian and The Washington Post articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  They contain numerous inaccuracies.
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information  —  The highest priority of the Intelligence Community is to work within the constraints of law to collect, analyze and understand information related to potential threats to our national security.
Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
UK gaining secret intelligence via NSA operation  —  Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme  —  The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
Discussion: Business Insider
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama sponsored bill that would have made Verizon order illegal
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Clapper denied NSA surveillance before Senate panel in March testimony
Discussion: Hot Air, Forbes and The Hill
BBC:
US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance
Discussion: New York Times and Guardian
Washington Post:
The government needs to explain about the NSA's phone data program
Discussion: Business Insider
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Leaks Overshadow Obama's Meeting With President of China
Discussion: New York Times and TechCrunch
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
George W. Bush critics turn wrath on President Obama  —  A club of Capitol Hill liberals made life hell for George W. Bush in his second term.  —  Now the gang is back — and they don't care that this time the president is their guy.  —  In the last few weeks, some of the loudest anti-Bush voices …
Bloomberg:
Why Obama Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court  —  In cases before the Supreme Court last year, President Barack Obama's Justice Department relied on outlandish legal theories that pushed a constitutional interpretation of extreme federal power.  That posture led to unanimous losses in three …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
President Obama's let's-have-a-debate defense  —  The Obama administration has a familiar refrain on the surveillance of Americans' telephone records: the president and his team are eager to have the debate.  —  Eager, that is, only after others have brought the tactics to light and the administration has spent years employing them.
Discussion: Hot Air and Pirate's Cove
Reuters:
Misfired 2010 email alerted IRS officials in Washington of targeting  —  (Reuters) - A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati alerted a number of Washington IRS officials that extra scrutiny was being placed on conservative groups in July 2010 …
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why Republicans Can Get Away With Ignoring Their Problems  —  The GOP can enjoy another strong midterm election in 2014 without doing much more to attract young or minority voters.  —  Republicans have a problem with young voters.  Democrats have a problem with young nonvoters.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Rupert Darwall / Wall Street Journal:
Global Warming and the Gipper  —  Critics of America's policy on carbon emissions accuse it of being a prisoner of free-market ideology.  On the contrary, it was the product of hardheaded pragmatism.  —  Might it be that it was Ronald Reagan and not Barack Obama who began to slow the rise of the seas?
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Discussion: Yahoo! News and Politico
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Red-blue divisions start with newborns' names; parents show partisan tendencies
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Christie appoints Chiesa to fill Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat
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Reuters:
Al-Qaida leader Zawahri urges Syrians: Unite against Assad and bring down Israel-backing U.S.
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Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
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Discussion: Hot Air
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