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2:25 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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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, CNN, Reuters and AEIdeas
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.
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’  —  House Speaker John Boehner today called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” who put Americans at risk by releasing classified information to the media.  —  “He's a traitor,” the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives …
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The T-Word  —  So now both Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairman …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an ‘act of treason’
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tough immigration choice for GOP  —  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.  —  But they are undecided about whether to vote “yes” on final passage.
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
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Yahoo! News:
‘Proud wacko bird’ Ted Cruz calls Obama biggest obstacle to immigration reform
Jeff Merkley:
Senators: End Secret Law  —  Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Declassify FISA Court Opinions  —  Washington, DC - Today, Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), accompanied by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mark Begich (D-AK), Al Franken …
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings
Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
Discussion: TechCrunch and Boing Boing
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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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 …
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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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.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to rally support for immigration reform as Senate weighs bill
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Weasel Zippers
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.
Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog:
Google Maps and Waze, outsmarting traffic together  —  We've all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated that you chose the wrong route on the drive to work.  But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out “fender bender …
 
 
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6 Changes Hillary Clinton Made To Her Twitter Bio
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Business Leaders Warm to Terry McAuliffe
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James Hohmann / Reuters:
Twitter war erupts in battle for Senate
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Ai Weiwei / Guardian:
NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China | Ai Weiwei
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