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11:45 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 PRISM program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others  —  • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Skype and Yahoo  —  • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007  —  The National Security Agency …
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” …
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 …
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.
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.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act  —  An author of the controversial legislation keeps defending it — even though he's felt betrayed by related abuses three times.  —  Upon hearing that the FBI sought and received the phone data from millions …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Data Collection Isn't Data Abuse — Yet
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
DNI: WaPo, Guardian Articles Contained ‘Numerous Inaccuracies’
Discussion: Business Insider
William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
Discussion: Hit & Run and American Prospect
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
Amy Davidson / News Desk:
America through the N.S.A.'s PRISM
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 …
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: Washington Monthly and Yahoo! News
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
 
 
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