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Yet the collection does not need to be tied to terrorism to occur – something that alarmed one Democrat senator, Jeff Merkley. He told the Guardian on Thursday that the sweeping “barn-door” collection appeared to violate the provision of the Patriot Act purportedly authorising it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...a-data-clapper

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Obama Silent on Surveillance Controversy
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/201...e-controversy/
President Obama said nothing Thursday as the nation was gripped by news that the National Security Agency has been tracking the telephone calls and Internet behavior of millions of Americans.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/201...e-controversy/

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New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama
The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration for collecting phone call data from Americans to make it less stinging shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon.

The editorial originally declared that the Obama “administration has lost all credibility” as a result of the recently revealed news that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/ne...#ixzz2VXyPRotm

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Censors at China’s top Twitter-like microblogging site blocked searches for “big yellow duck” and removed the candle icon used to express mourning as part of the country’s annual June 4 David-and-Goliath face-off pitting Chinese Internet users eager to memorialize the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters against China’s sprawling online censorship apparatus.

With the arrival of the anniversary on Tuesday, Sina Corp.’s Weibo appeared to have rethought a brief experiment with more sophisticated filtering. Late last week, previously blocked searches on the site for terms related to the crackdown suddenly began to produce innocuous, carefully selected results. But beginning Monday night, those searches went back to being blocked.

Sina’s censors were also busy hand-deleting Tiananmen-related images from the site, including a series of tongue-in-cheek re-imaginings of the iconic “Tank Man” photo, taken as Chinese military vehicles were attempting to leave the square.

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"Drug dealers have families to feed," Bloomberg said. "If they can't sell marijuana, they'll sell something else."

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Mayor Bloomberg called medical marijuana a scam on his WOR radio show on Friday.

In a discussion of efforts to legalize it across the country, Bloomberg said, "There's no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time."

He went on to make another eyebrow raising statement about how legalizing marijuana will cause other problems.

"Drug dealers have families to feed," Bloomberg said. "If they can't sell marijuana, they'll sell something else."

Bloomberg says that "something else" will be worse than pot.

"The push to legalize this is just wrongheaded," Bloomberg added.



Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/2246924...#ixzz2UtW7PW6A

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Washington Post: The Justice Department has allowed us to say AG Holder supports press freedom

As The Washington Examiner‘s own Susan Ferrechio reports Friday most news organizations boycotted on principle Attorney General Eric Holder’s offer to join a press conference Thursday
Holder’s condition was that the meeting be “off the record,” meaning none of the reporters would be allowed to report what was said at the meeting.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/washin...rticle/2530898

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Rate Shock: In California, Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146%

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapoth...ums-by-64-146/

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Ted Cruz: Obama administration does not respect First, Second, Fourth or Fifth Amendments
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2530831

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