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12:15 PM ET, June 9, 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 global surveillance 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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Bob Cesca / The Daily Banter:
NSA Bombshell Story Falling Apart Under Scrutiny; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate  —  It turns out, the NSA PRISM story isn't quite the bombshell that everyone said it was.  Yes, there continues to be a serious cause for concern when it comes to government spying and overreach with its counter-terrorism efforts.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Peeping Barry  —  WASHINGTON — THE acid that corroded George W. Bush's presidency was fear — spreading it and succumbing to it.  —  You could see the fear in his eyes, the fear that froze him in place, after Andy Card whispered to W. in that Florida classroom that a second plane had crashed into the twin towers.
Discussion: Guardian
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
DNI Statement on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
IRS Staff Undermine GOP Claims That White House Directed Targeting Of Conservative Groups, Top Democrat Says  —  Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) — the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — pledged to release transcripts of interviews with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Cummings vows to release full IRS transcripts by week's end  —  The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Sunday threatened to release full transcripts of testimony from Internal Revenue Service employees related to the agency's targeting scandal by week's end if Chairman Darrell Issa does not.
Discussion: CNN
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Paul weighs Supreme Court challenge to NSA surveillance programs  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he would examine ways to block the National Security Agency's surveillance programs before the Supreme Court.  —  “I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” vowed Paul on “Fox News Sunday.”
Discussion: CNN, Politico and The PJ Tatler
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Kelly Ayotte:
Op-ed: Why I'm backing legislation to fix our broken immigration system  —  Everybody agrees that America's immigration system is broken, threatening our security and holding back our economy.  The combination of porous borders and lax enforcement has made us a magnet for illegal immigration.
Washington Examiner:
Fed study: Tax hikes, not spending cuts, are slowing the recovery … Why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression?  According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it is not because the federal government failed to borrow and spend …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Dem senator skeptical call tracking needed to thwart terror threats  —  Democratic Sen. Mark Udall (Colo.) on Sunday expressed skepticism that the National Security Agency's massive phone tracking program was really necessary to help the government thwart possible terrorist attacks.
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
On the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, a Rather Familiar Cast of Characters  —  WASHINGTON — In mid-February, Senator John McCain went on the NBC program “Meet the Press” to explain his unhappiness with President Obama's nominee for defense secretary.  A week later, he took to “State of the Union” …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Politico
Alan M. Dershowitz / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Syria crisis shows why Israel must remain strong  —  Whether Syrian death toll is 80,000 or 100,000, this figure is more than all people killed in nearly a century of conflict between Israel and its enemies, including several wars and thousands of acts of terrorism.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
The Sunday Times:
Top Tory in new Lobbygate row  —  MP coached client before committee grilling  —  Insight  —  Tim Yeo is chairman of the parliamentary energy and climate change committee  —  THE Tory MP in charge of scrutinising new energy laws has been caught boasting about how he can use his leadership …
Discussion: Guardian, BBC and Spectator
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
 
 
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Mark Nicol / Daily Mail:
Harry saved me from gay hate attack: Prince in extraordinary showdown with troops who threatened gunner
Associated Press:
Vermont decriminalizes marijuana
Discussion: Hot Air
NPR:
Week In Politics: Sifting Through Surveillance
Discussion: The Reaction and Prairie Weather
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Employment in U.S. Lags Where It Was in 2007
Discussion: Power Line
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JTA / Jerusalem Post:
Paris museum opens exhibit of Palestinian ‘martyrs’
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Republican Party to step up outreach to evangelicals
Dr. Susan Berry / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: HOMESCHOOLING GROWING SEVEN TIMES FASTER THAN PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Discussion: americanthinker.com