Top Lines: O’Reilly, Verizon, NSA, Issa, Carney, Rove and Mitt Romney
Bill O’Reilly stands up for Verizon customers; Lindsey Graham loves the NSA spying on him; Rep. Darrell Issa calls Jay Carney a “paid liar”; Carney loves to correct the record; we remember Karl Rove’s epic election night meltdown; and Mitt Romney says he’s “over it” in the week’s “Top Lines.”
How to Stop Government Phone Snooping: 3 Privacy Tools
Threats of Big Brother watching U.S. citizens seem to have gained credence for several reasons this week. It began when British newspaper The Guardian broke a story revealing that the U.S. government has been secretly, although lawfully, collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers Full story
NBC Politics: Data collection divide muddles party labels, makes strange bedfellows
In the storm that blew up Thursday over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing a subpoena of telecom data from Verizon, the resulting alliances made for some strange bedfellows with ideologies clashing, at times, with party labels.Libertarian favorite Sen. Rand … Full story
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Residents in Los Angeles react to the news that the National Security Agency has requested all phone records of Verizon customers.
Political Leaders Defend Phone Law
CNBC's Eamon Javers offers insight on reports the national security agency has been gathering millions of Verizon telephone records. Government security people say the law has already saved lives.
NBC News Update: June 6th, 2013
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The FMHR traders reveal their plays on the top stocks lighting up the Twitterfeed, including Verizon, Merck, Lockheed Martin, and Southwest Airlines.
Whose records were – and weren’t – collected in NSA controversy
NBC’s Pete Williams explains the NSA collection technique now at the center of a controversy involving a top secret order for millions of Verizon customers’ data.
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