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9:30 PM ET, June 8, 2013

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Guardian:
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data  —  Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data - including figures on US collection  —  • Boundless Informant: mission outlined in four slides  —  • Read the NSA's frequently asked questions document
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ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act  —  Over the last week we have seen reckless disclosures of intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe.  In a rush to publish, media outlets have not given …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Details of secret Internet data collection program declassified  —  The head of U.S. intelligence released new details on Saturday about the federal government's secretive program to monitor Internet users.  —  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied that the program …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials
Discussion: TechCrunch
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies
Justin Stanfield Thomas / The Huffington Post:
Justin Stanfield Thomas Shot, Killed Accidentally By 4-Year-Old Son In Arizona  —  PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Authorities in northern Arizona say a 4-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his father at a Prescott Valley home.  —  Prescott Valley police say the shooting occurred just after noon Friday.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Natalie Brand / KASW-TV:
PD: Boy, 4, accidentally shoots, kills father  —  PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at a home in Prescott Valley Friday, according to a spokesman for the Prescott Valley Police Dept.  —  Police have identified the victim as 35-year-old Justin Stanfield Thomas …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Republican Party to step up outreach to evangelicals  —  (CNN) - The Republican National Committee has brought on a director of evangelical outreach to massage the party's complicated relationship with religious conservatives, GOP sources told CNN on Saturday.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / Reuters:
Immigration Reform, or How the GOP Can Screw Up Its 2016
JTA / Jerusalem Post:
Paris museum opens exhibit of Palestinian ‘martyrs’  —  French government subsidizes museum which opens exhibition of 68 photos, entitled “Death,” of Palestinian suicide bombers.  —  A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Dr. Susan Berry / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: HOMESCHOOLING GROWING SEVEN TIMES FASTER THAN PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT  —  As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling.  Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
NY Times A1 Story Wrongly Credits NSA's PRISM for Foiling Zazi Case  —  Yesterday both the NY Times and Reuters claimed the Zazi terror plot against New York subways was foiled by an NSA email collection program called PRISM.  That was not the case.  The key to stopping the Zazi plot …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Cleta Mitchell: How to Investigate the IRS  —  Cleta Mitchell, the attorney who helped expose the tax agency's abuses, has a road map for identifying the culprits.  It doesn't stop in Cincinnati.  —  Washington  —  The woman who helped expose IRS abuse of conservative activists has more news to share …
Discussion: Wake up America
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Cincinnati IRS staffer: D.C. showed interest in Tea Party cases  —  An IRS staffer in Cincinnati told congressional investigators that a Washington official was the driving force behind the targeting of Tea Party organizations in 2010, and showed unprecedented interest in those groups' tax-exempt applications.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
IRS lawyer who oversaw conservative targeting is retiring and his Facebook page has been removed
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and National Review
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Intelligence for Dummies  —  Question for the day: Do you feel more secure or less secure, now that you know the government is keeping a gargantuan pile of information about everybody's telephone calls in the name of national security?  —  You have heard, I'm sure, that the National Security Agency …
Ellen Sturtz / Washington Post:
Why I confronted the first lady  —  Ellen Sturtz is a retired public servant and an advocate for LGBT equality.  —  When Barack Obama was running for President in 2008, I thought he was serious about protecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from workplace discrimination.
 
 
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Employment in U.S. Lags Where It Was in 2007
Discussion: Power Line
Arturo Avina / good.is:
It's the ‘Gay Agenda’ in Public Schools (And It's Fabulous)
Discussion: The Raw Story
Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
Rep. Israel: Repeal Dishonorable Discharges For Gay Veterans
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Advocate
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Hot Air
Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Mindful of Previous Defeat, Cantor Pushes Bill to Increase Pediatric Research
Discussion: Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
GOP Poll: Massachusetts Senate Race a Statistical Tie
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
The All-Seeing State  —  A few years ago, after one corruption scandal …
BBC:
Nelson Mandela admitted to hospital in ‘serious condition’
World News:
Turkey's prime minister invokes Allah, demands protests end immediately
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama: Congress can pass immigration bill by the end of summer
Discussion: CNN
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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