• Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the new revelations in the NSA data mining situation
• Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who exposed classified U.S. surveillance programs leaked by an American defense contractor, said this morning that there will be more ‘significant revelations’ to come from the documents in the coming weeks and months.
• The Obama administration considered whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified surveillance secrets while it defended the broad U.S. spy program that it says keeps America safe from terrorists.
• As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a record-low number of Americans (just 45%) support such programs, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
• Potential jurors in the George Zimmerman trial were questioned Monday about what they knew about the death of Trayvon Martin. The first four jurors to be grilled had at least a passing knowledge of the situation but said they had not immersed themselves in media coverage.
• Calling it “the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday unveiled an operating system for iPhones and iPads that will radically overhaul how users’ touchscreens look.
