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7:50 AM ET, June 10, 2013

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Guardian:
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations  —  The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows  —  • Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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The Atlantic Online:
Edward Snowden in Hong Kong  —  I'm glad we have this information; I am sorry we are getting it from Hong Kong.  —  Three points:  —  1) I believe what I wrote two days ago: that the United States and the world have gained much more, in democratic accountability, than they have lost …
Guardian:
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: ‘I do not expect to see home again’  —  Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation - and what comes next  —  Edward Snowden was interviewed over several days in Hong Kong by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.
Booz Allen Hamilton:
Booz Allen Statement on Reports of Leaked Information  —  Booz Allen can confirm that Edward Snowden, 29, has been an employee of our firm for less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii.  News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
What's the Deal with Hong Kong?  —  Having given some initial reactions to the Snowden revelation below, let me say a bit more about Snowden's decision to go to Hong Kong.  —  Let's start by saying that the US has very long arms when it comes to seeking the extradition of people who've broken the laws at quite Snowden's scale.
Discussion: Guardian and Business Insider
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks  —  He called me BRASSBANNER, a code name in the double-barreled style of the National Security Agency, where he worked in the signals intelligence directorate.  —  Verax was the name he chose for himself, “truth teller” in Latin.
Washington Post:
Edward Snowden identified as source of NSA leaks  —  Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old system administrator and former undercover CIA employee, unmasked himself Sunday as the principal source of recent Washington Post and Guardian disclosures about top-secret NSA programs, denouncing what he described …
Guardian:
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' - video  —  The source behind the Guardian's NSA files talks to Glenn Greenwald about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
DOJ launches criminal probe of NSA leaker  —  The Justice Department on Sunday confirmed that it is conducting a criminal investigation into the leak of classified information detailing the National Security Agency's phone and internet surveillance programs.
Discussion: Politico
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
NSA leaker reveals self, has no apologies
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to nominate Furman to lead economic council  —  President Obama will nominate Jason Furman as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers at a ceremony Monday afternoon at the White House.  —  Furman, currently the deputy director of the National Economic Council …
Discussion: CNN
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
The Era of Metadata  —  Five blunt thoughts on the growing surveillance state:  —  1. The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers.  The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn't do, an action they did or didn't support.
Discussion: naked capitalism and Hot Air
Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Leaking Secrets Empowers Terrorists  —  The NSA's surveillance program doesn't do damage.  Revealing it does.  —  Once again, the tanks-have-rolled left and the black-helicopters right have joined together in howls of protest.  They were set off by last week's revelations that the U.S. government …
Discussion: msnbc.com
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Senators should have known about snooping, says McCain
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Shrug  —  I've been in this economics business for a while.  In fact, I've been in it so long I still remember what people considered normal in those long-ago days before the financial crisis.  Normal, back then, meant an economy adding a million or more jobs each year …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rand Paul Tells Fox Viewers To Join Lawsuit Against NSA: 'I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court'  —  Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to Fox News Sunday to declare his legal opposition to the NSA's surveillance programs.  “I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” Paul said.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Paul weighs Supreme Court challenge to NSA surveillance programs
Megan Wilson / The Hill:
Rand Paul says he's key to bridging Senate, House immigration gap  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday that his Senate colleagues would have to go through him in order to win support from the House to successfully pass comprehensive immigration reform  —  “What they have in the Senate …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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