"Here's how I view that exchange," Todd Harris, a senior Rubio aide, told the Guardian.
"It's been incredible," Nikos Pappas, a leading minister and Tsipras' closest aide, told the Guardian.
One aide told the Guardian that all legislative strategy on both sides of the debate would be scrambled if Section 215 of the Patriot Act expires.
A campaign aide told the Guardian that the unit is currently overburdened and understaffed, with only 50 lawyers in the unit to probe potential civil rights violations.
In the early evening, a presidential aide told the Guardian Morsi was still free, but late on Wednesday night a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman said Morsi was being held by the authorities in an unknown location.
A senior Republican aide told the Guardian that Boehner had agreed to allow the House to vote on the deal, which in practice means it would pass with support from Democrats and moderate Republicans.
A congressional aide told the Guardian that, in a recent meeting for staffers on the House oversight committee, representatives from the Justice Department said the Swartz document – which Swartz called the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto – was a factor in establishing "malicious intent" to download documents on a large scale.
His aides told the Guardian that he subsequently wrote to the Home Office demanding more details about the Saliu family's case and was expecting a response soon.
Last summer, aides told the Guardian of a similar plan but said that it had gained little traction and had been shelved.
At a rally on Thursday night in Washington DC, where Sanders plans to compete in the last primary next week, campaign aides told the Guardian he was particularly keen to use the convention to push the party to adopt paid family and medical leave and support big raises to the minimum wage.
As reported in the Guardian, an aide to Maude confirmed that the government was still "committed to bringing in new models to the public sector – charities, social enterprises and mutuals".
