After years of Mainstream Media political reporters & columnists in U.S. being compulsive sycophants to Obama's White House, turning-off readers/viewers in droves, now their colleagues on U.S. national security beat have to deal with the karma -reality of (perhaps) being intentionally digitally monitored by Obama Administration. That's karma for you!; "Obama’s war on leaks has journalists and their sources on edge. ‘I worry now about calling somebody.’"; Damning CPJ report by Len Downie of Arizona State's Cronkite School & Washington Post and Sara Rafsky was released Thursday, but some say evidence is clear that MSM is still pulling-punches with Obama; @lendownie, @Cronkite_ASU, @CPJ, @pressfreedom, #pressfreedom

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Digital dragnets, the power of Twitter at Taksim Square, and the power of @davidfrum's tweets; Frum once again shows how much more insightful he is than others, here, pointing out how disconnected President Obama is from reality when he writes, "Incredibly, President Obama asks this question despite having two teenagers of his own"; The Guardian's bombshell revelation about domestic spying is only the tip of the iceberg

The Guardian

NSA taps in to systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and others, secret files reveal

• Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple

• Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007

By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill

6 June 2013 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data?CMP=twt_gu

Incredibly, President Obama asks this question despite having two teenagers of his own. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) June 7, 2013

Sure, because what could possibly go wrong with tens of millions of teenagers' personal information being recorded and stored digitally somewhere on school property, and likely being easily accessible by all sorts of computer-savvy creeps, whether there at the school or many hundreds or thousands of miles away?

WSJDigitalNetwork YouTube Channel video: Does the NSA Know More About You Than Google? -WJS's Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on Verizon's cooperation in handing over metadata to the federal govt. Uploaded June 6, 2013.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5yLOwX320

The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.

The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over 'on an ongoing daily basis' to the National Security Agency all call logs 'between the United States and abroad' or 'wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html

New York Times

EDITORIAL: President Obama’s Dragnet

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JUNE 6, 2013

Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism -especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability.

Read the rest of the editorial at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html

See also:

http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245566/245668/www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html

Fox News Channel video: Obama administration pushes back on NSA document leaks 

Published June 07, 2013

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2442581574001/nsa-and-fbi-started-internet-data-mining-in-2007/

On PRISM, admin points to Sec 702 of FISA, says it collects "important and valuable" data from non-Americans politi.co/12vhdG6
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 7, 2013

The Guardian's bombshell revelation about domestic spying is only the tip of the iceberg read.bi/191sf7C
— Politix (@bi_politics) June 6, 2013

The NSA Doesn't Need Much Phone Data to Know You're You. bit.ly/18Yjxab
— Niraj Chokshi (@nirajc) June 6, 2013

Obama administration defends its right take all your phone records by @dashb0t via @theatlanticwire read.bi/190nawf
— Politix (@bi_politics) June 6, 2013

Story today: Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery #FOIA apne.ws/15x55RP (from @ap)
— Jack Gillum (@jackgillum) June 4, 2013

I'm curious if any Miami or FTL-based federal officials have a similar M.O. to avoid compliance. Not that the local news media will investigate this unless a local federal employee comes forward to say so.

Twitter Proves Pivotal In Dissemination Of Information During Taksim Square Protests mbist.ro/131l3Sz (via @alltwtr)
— mediabistro.com (@Mediabistro) June 3, 2013