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POINTERS
‘NEWS GATHERING
IS BEING CRIMINALIZED’
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson
said Sunday that amid the Department of
Justice’s investigations of journalists, she’s
worried “the process of news gathering is being
criminalized.” The Times was one of several news
organizations to boycott a meeting with Attorney
General Eric Holder about leak investigations because it was off the record. “To have this private
meeting ... and not be able to share anything about it with our readers didn’t seem to have a point to
me,” she told CBS’ Face the Nation. Holder vowed not to indict any journalists for their reporting.
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‘WRONG
AND UNFAIR’
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HUFFINGTON
06.09.13
Turkey’s deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc
apologized on Monday for the severe police crackdown
that occurred in response to a peaceful protest
against government plans to destroy a park. “The
excessive violence that was used in the first instance
against those who were behaving with respect for
the environment is wrong and unfair. I apologize to
those citizens,” Arinc said at a news conference.
Demonstrations continued this week across the
country in response to the brutal crackdown, and two
have reportedly been killed in the ensuing chaos.
‘THE ADMINISTRATION OWES
THE PUBLIC AN EXPLANATION’
A Guardian report that the National Security
Agency is collecting the phone logs of millions
of U.S. Verizon customers sparked outrage this
week. The paper reported that a “top secret
order” mandates that Verizon provide phone
call data to the NSA on an “ongoing, daily basis.”
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended the program. “It’s
called protecting America,” she said. Others disagreed. “The administration owes the American
public an explanation of what authorities it thinks it has,” Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) said.