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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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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.
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 …
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Weekly Standard, Post Politics, Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
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.
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The acrobat girlfriend of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden... who he abandoned when he fled the U.S.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
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The Huffington Post, Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
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Daily Kos
New York Times:
Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Guardian, China Real Time Report, The BLT and Blazing Cat Fur, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Debate on Secret Data Looks Unlikely, Partly Due to Secrecy
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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 …
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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 …
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msnbc.com, Connecting.the.Dots, VodkaPundit and American Power
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an ‘act of treason’
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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 …
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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.
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Washington Monthly, Yahoo! News, The Plum Line, National Review, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, The Raw Story, Speaker.gov and CNN
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’
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New York Times, Politico, ABCNEWS, CNN, Yahoo! News, The Hinterland Gazette, U.S. News, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP leaders face tough choice on immigration reform — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) plan to vote Tuesday in favor of the motion to proceed to the reform bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long.
Discussion:
Politico and Booman Tribune
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’
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americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com, Power Line, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Conservatives4Palin, Front page feed and The Plum Line
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
U.S. Senate to debate sweeping immigration bill favored by Obama
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Roll Call
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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Washington Post, Yahoo! News, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, LifeNews.com, Right Wing Watch, The Maddow Blog, The Week, AMERICAblog, Booman Tribune, Taylor Marsh, The Incidental Economist, First Read, The Caucus, The Talking Dog, Blue Mass Group and The Volokh Conspiracy, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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The Hill, CNN, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and National Review
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
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Politico
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Labor backs immigration plan with million-dollar ad buy
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
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.
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, National Review, NewsBusters, The PJ Tatler, American Power and Conservatives4Palin
Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC News/WSJ poll: Affirmative action support at historic low — As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a record-low number of Americans support such programs, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda's online magazine — U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group's followers, according to officials. — The operation succeeded, at least temporarily …
Discussion:
The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo
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.
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americanthinker.com, The Maddow Blog, The Heritage Foundation, Wonkblog, Booman Tribune and Yahoo! News
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
The New York Times takes down Anthony Weiner story — The New York Times “inadvertently” posted an article on the women involved in Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal — and then deleted it. — “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers” by Michael Barbaro was posted on the Times's website Monday …
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