<blockquote>'If ever there was a moment when the press showed itself too close to government, it was David Gregory's attack on
@ggreenwald'
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Jeff Jarvis, June 23, 2013</blockquote>
<blockquote>Amazing to see opinion leaders and insiders on right and left fall over each other trying to excuse massive govt surveillance.
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Peter Daou, June 23, 2013</blockquote>
<blockquote>'When the free free press, explicitly protected in the bill of rights becomes equivalent to an "enemy of the United States" something very, very bad is happening.'
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Source, June 22, 2013</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>'In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?'
- Al Gore, 2013 (
'In digital era, privacy must be a priority.')
"We felt we were starting to overstep the mark with some of it. People from MI5 were complaining that they were going too far from a civil liberties perspective … We all had reservations about it, because we all thought: 'If this was used against us, we wouldn't stand a chance'."
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MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' over phone and internet monitoring, June 22, 2013</blockquote>