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12:15 PM ET, June 11, 2013

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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Solitary Leaker  —  From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man.  Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school.  Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic  —  Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy  —  OVERVIEW  —  A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an ‘act of treason’  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday said the 29-year-old man who leaked information about two national security programs is guilty of treason.  —  Feinstein said former National Security Agency Edward Snowden she doesn't see him as a hero or a whistle blower.
Miriam Elder / Guardian:
Edward Snowden: Russia offers to consider asylum request  —  Vladimir Putin's spokesman says any appeal for asylum from whistleblower who fled US will be looked at ‘according to facts’  —  Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the Kremlin's latest move to woo critics of the west.
Rand Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us  —  Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy.  —  When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon's client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded …
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The acrobat girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden... who he abandoned when he fled the U.S.  — Lindsay Mills, 28, is reportedly the girlfriend Edward Snowden left behind when he leaked information about PRISM surveillance  —  The girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
Discussion: Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Leaks fallout: How bad could it be?  —  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims the recent wave of leaks has done “huge, grave damage” to our intelligence gathering capabilities.  —  Nonsense, says Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian columnist who served as the primary conduit for the leaks …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Exclusive Interview With House Speaker John Boehner on NSA Leak, Immigration Reform And More  —  House Speaker John Boehner sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on “Good Moring America” to discuss the NSA leak, immigration reform, the IRS scandal and much more.
Roger Simon / Politico:
The slacker who came in from the cold  —  Think you're a loser just because you dropped out of high school and never finished the military training you began?  —  Think you're a dud just because you work as a security guard even though you dreamed of becoming a global savior?  —  Well, don't beat yourself up.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Mediaite, Reuters, CNN and AEIdeas
Charles S. Clark / Government Executive:
Banqueters and the Spying News Bombshell  —  Director for National Intelligence James Clapper Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP File Photo  —  No one planned it that way, but the twin blockbuster stories exposing national security agencies' collection of domestic telephone logs and foreigners' Web traffic …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
Debate on Secret Data Looks Unlikely, Partly Due to Secrecy
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Secrecy News
Yahoo! News:
Intelligence chief Clapper: I gave ‘least untruthful’ answer on U.S. spying
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
New York Post:
Hillary's sorry state of affairs  —  Probes into her department's sex scandals were quashed, memo says  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's security detail …
New York Times:
Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
What to Make of a Warming Plateau  —  As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming.  —  The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that.
Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Bill Daley forms exploratory committee  —  Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley is the latest Obama White House alum to set his sights on higher office in Illinois, announcing on Tuesday he's forming an exploratory campaign to run for Illinois governor.
Discussion: Washington Wire, CNN and The Caucus
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to rally support for immigration reform as Senate weighs bill
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Labor backs immigration plan with million-dollar ad buy
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
U.S. Senate to debate sweeping immigration bill favored by Obama  —  Tuesday starts a three-week fight on a bill that has been the President's top legislative priority.  It includes how to create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants, border security and overhauling the visa system.
Discussion: Roll Call
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Senate Passes Farm Bill; House Vote Is Less Sure  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping new farm bill on Monday that will cost nearly $955 billion over the next 10 years, the first step in a renewed attempt at passing legislation that will set the country's food and agriculture programs and policy.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obama's power grab: Column  —  The common thread running through his scandals is an abuse of power.  —  “How ironic is that?  We wanted a president that listens to all Americans — now we have one.”  That was Jay Leno's take on the Obama administration's expanding NSA spying scandal …
 
 
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Business Leaders Warm to Terry McAuliffe
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Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC News/WSJ poll: Affirmative action support at historic low
Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
Turkish Police Push Into Square Near Park Protest
James Hohmann / Reuters:
Twitter war erupts in battle for Senate
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Business Insider
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP leaders face tough choice on immigration reform
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Politico
Ai Weiwei / Guardian:
NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China | Ai Weiwei
Discussion: Yahoo! News
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Wall Street Journal:
China's Cyber Stonewall
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Peniel E. Joseph / New York Times:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
2 children beheaded by militants, Afghan authorities say
New York Times:
A Real Debate on Surveillance
Adrienne Royer / Immigration Reform Blog:
New State Polls: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Amnesty
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Power Line
 

 
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