philadelphia.cbslocal.com | Case involved a divorced Camden County mother of 9-year-old twin girls.

EFF.org | Obama: It is transparent. That’s why we set up the FISA court….

Washington Post | Revelations about the program, called PRISM, have opened fissures between U.S. officials and the involved companies.

Associated Press | Obama: NSA programs have saved lives.

Washington’s Blog | NSA Grasps at Straws.

Washington Times | The technology would come via the cable box, and at least one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is standing in opposition.

Jennifer Bain | New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly launched a stinging rebuke to the federal government’s secret phone and Internet monitoring campaign.

Mike Adams | In the run up to the 2012 election, why didn’t Obama campaign on the promise that he would keep Americans safe by spying on all our phone calls?

American Dream | There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing.

USA Today | Governments cannot stop truth whose time has come.

Fox News | Parents were told they could opt out of program after company charged with gathering information had already captured images of about 750 children’s eyes.

Washington’s Blog | NSA Building Big Brother “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence Program.

London Guardian | Phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009.

Guardian.co.uk | A review of Booz Allen’s own history suggests that government should be investigating this former employer, rather than the whistleblower.

DW.de | Agency wants to hire 100 new employees and expand its computer and server capacities, the weekly magazine reported.

Atlantic Wire | Microsoft tells government about bugs in notoriously buggy software before it fixes them so intelligence agencies can use vulnerabilities for purposes of cyberspying.

NY Daily News | Google and the other giants had together pressured the Obama administration to let them talk more about national security orders.

Fox News | Reporter Sharyl Attkisson believes her own computer had been hacked amid revelations the Justice Department snooped on Associated Press and Fox News reporters.

Bloomberg | Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with the NSA, four people claim.

Infowars.com | Short of removing yourself from the grid… there’s literally no way to escape the prying eyes of the feds.

Washington’s Blog | The People Pushing the Claims Have No Credibility.

CBS News | Bill would allow website owners access to private information such as home addresses.

Infowars.com | Insider says monitoring people as easy as performing a web search.

The Hill | Sanches says lawmakers were “astounded” by what they heard.

Paul Joseph Watson | Surveys contradict previous Pew poll.

Infowars.com | “Mr. Speaker, the American people have lost trust in this government…”

Butler Shaffer | As Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange did.

Paul Joseph Watson | RINO’s line up to support big government.

Brandon Smith | 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

CNS News | The IRS would like a houseplant concealment camera, complete with software and batteries.

Fox News | Back in March, Clapper said he had no knowledge of large-scale surveillance.

CNN | Protestors planning to demonstrate next week were arrested under the suspicion they had “intent to cause violent disorder.”

Paul Joseph Watson | “Good German” syndrome runs rampant as government becomes tyrannical.

Washington’s Blog | Big Banks and Other Corporate Bigwigs Benefit from Illegal Spying.

Infowars.com | In 1984, Ron Paul discusses the millions of dollars being used at the time on computer surveillance.

Chicago Tribune | Whistleblower says Obama has continued the policies of Bush.

CBS News | Obama Administration to aggressively seek whistleblower, even if it means investigating third-parties.

The Atlantic | The Bushbama Administration leaves a toybox for future tyrants.

Charles Burris | Nazi Gehlen organization penetrated the American intelligence services.

realclearpolitics.com | Photo set of the massive NSA complex in Utah, which according to Obama is not snooping into your private life.

Adan Salazar | Obama employs tried and true “gaslighting” technique.

guardian.co.uk | Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple.

Politico | Journalist who broke news that the government is monitoring vast quantities of American phone records made the rounds.

Seth McLaughlin | Graham said that he is a Verizon customer and has no problem with company turning over records to government.

Infowars.com | Oregon senators took a major step in affirming school students’ rights to privacy Wednesday.

cbslocal.com | Border agents should not only scan but also copy electronic devices, according to DHS.

wsj.com | Obama defends death of Fourth Amendment.

Infowars.com | Shifting the debate on smart meters in a positive direction.

telegraph.co.uk | Turkey’s deputy prime minister has apologised for the “wrong and unjust” attempts to break up protests.

foxnews.com | Most of the scanners have already been pulled from service.