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- Glenn Greenwald, “NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily,” Guardian, June 5, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order.
- Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman, “Anger Swells after NSA Phone Records Court Order Revelations,” Guardian, June 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/obama-administration-nsa-verizon-records.
- Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, “NSA Prism Program Taps in to User Data of Apple, Google and Others,” Guardian, June 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data.
- Snowden’s rationale for the leaks is in an interview Greenwald conducted with Snowden, published on June 9, 2013, on YouTube. See Freedom of the Press Foundation, “NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things,’” YouTube, June 9, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM.
- Barton Gellman, “U.S. Surveillance Architecture Includes Collection of Revealing Internet, Phone Metadata,” Washington Post, June 15, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying,” https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline (spans the period from 1791 when the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution went into effect up to today).