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3:00 PM 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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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.
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation  —  No healthy democracy can endure when the most consequential acts of those in power remain secret and unaccountable  —  We followed Wednesday's story about the NSA's bulk telephone record-gathering with one yesterday …
Guardian:
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Facebook, Yahoo and others  —  • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook  —  • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
New York Times:
Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surveillance programs revealed this week, and sought to reassure the public that his administration has not become a Big Brother with eyes and ears throughout the world of online communications.
William Saletan / Slate:
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
President Obama's let's-have-a-debate defense
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and Hot Air
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Revelations expose basic contradiction at heart of Obama's war on terror
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act
Stewart Baker / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Lawfare
Politico:
Ron Wyden, Mark Udall continue to sound alarm on privacy
Discussion: BuzzFeed and The Week
New York Times:
U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
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 …
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” …
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 …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama  —  To an increasing degree, we're counting on having angels in office and making ourselves vulnerable to devils.  —  Let's assume that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their staffers …
U.S. News:
Texas woman arrested in ricin letters to Obama, Bloomberg: Officials  —  A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to President Obama, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, federal authorities said.
Discussion: Politico and The Raw Story
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 …
Washington Wire:
Transcript: Obama's Remarks on NSA Controversy  —  President Barack Obama on Friday defended his administration's vast data-collection efforts, saying the programs help prevent terrorist attacks and represent only small encroachments of people's privacy.  Here is the transcript of his remarks …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added 175,000 Jobs in May; Jobless Rate Rises to 7.6%  —  American employers added 175,000 jobs in May, almost exactly the average monthly job growth over the last year, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent.
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Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Soldier Told Not to Read Levin, Limbaugh or Hannity in Uniform  —  A veteran member of the U.S. Army Band said he is facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh …
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
Fox News:
‘Uhhh...Uh...Uhhh....People!’  Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech  —  President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words.  Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.
 
 
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BBC:
Rape suspect buried alive in Bolivia
Discussion: Gawker
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Behind the Obamacare Derangement Syndrome
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New Republic
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
National Dems jump into Mass. Senate race air war
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS and msnbc.com
CNN:
Obama speech-less  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama got off …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
An IRS Political Timeline
Monte Whaley / Denver Post:
New state: Weld County floats secession plan for northeastern Colorado
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Geraldo Rivera rules out Senate bid in New Jersey special election
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and Colorlines
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Romney mixes business and politics at exclusive Utah conference
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Slips in Poll After Benghazi Hits, Christie's Up
Discussion: Washington Wire and CNN
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McCain, Feinstein drop in on Gitmo
Discussion: The Caucus and CNN
Politico:
Behind the Curtain: Ailes unplugged
Discussion: WJLA-TV
Joe Arnold / WHAS-TV:
Grimes asks for Democrats support ahead of U.S. Senate decision
Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Hill and Ballot Box
Governor Peter Shumlin:
GOV. SHUMLIN SIGNS BILL DECRIMINALIZING POSSESSION OF LIMITED AMOUNTS OF MARIJUANA
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Taylor Marsh
Rupert Darwall / Wall Street Journal:
Global Warming and the Gipper
Discussion: National Review
 

 
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Adam B. Vary / Variety:
The Blair Witch Project cast requests retroactive residuals and “meaningful consultation” on future projects, after Lionsgate and Blumhouse announced a reboot

Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Sources: FIFA is close to giving Apple the global rights for its 2025 World Cup-style soccer competition in the US, likely for ~25% of FIFA's first $4B estimate

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income
 
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