Top Items:
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, The Plum Line, The Maddow Blog, National Review, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, The Raw Story, Speaker.gov and CNN
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.
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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, ABCNEWS, Politico, CNN, Yahoo! News, The Hinterland Gazette, U.S. News, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail and Business Insider
New York Times:
Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel
Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel
Discussion:
BBC, The Daily Caller, Salon, Guardian, China Real Time Report, The BLT and Blazing Cat Fur, more at Mediagazer »
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Discussion:
Yahoo! News, Politico, American Prospect, FiveThirtyEight, New Republic, Mashable, Mediaite, Washington Post, GigaOM, First Read, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, The Maddow Blog, The Gateway Pundit, Infowars, Taking Note, KALW, The Monkey Cage, msnbc.com, The Week, Hot Air, The Dish, No More Mister Nice Blog, TechCrunch, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, Hit & Run, American Power, CNN and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Relies on Spies for Hire to Sift Deluge of Intelligence
U.S. Relies on Spies for Hire to Sift Deluge of Intelligence
Discussion:
Yahoo! News, Politico, The Huffington Post, National Review and Washington Wire
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The T-Word — So now both Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairman …
The T-Word — So now both Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairman …
Discussion:
US News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Dish
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Discussion:
Daily Kos
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
Discussion:
Hit & Run, Politico, The Spectacle Blog, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, americanthinker.com and The Other McCain, more at Mediagazer »
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 Jawa Report, NO QUARTER USA NET, Hullabaloo and The PJ Tatler
RELATED:
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:
The Huffington Post and americanthinker.com
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 …
Discussion:
msnbc.com, Connecting.the.Dots, VodkaPundit and American Power
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
RELATED:
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Wake Up! — In 2007, John McCain's “comprehensive” …
Wake Up! — In 2007, John McCain's “comprehensive” …
Discussion:
JustOneMinute, Michelle Malkin and Front page feed
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Pro-Immigration Republicans Do Not Welcome Obama's Return To The Debate
Pro-Immigration Republicans Do Not Welcome Obama's Return To The Debate
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's …, Post Politics and Yahoo! News
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 …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, The Verge, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Secrecy News
RELATED:
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings
Discussion:
Firedoglake and Wall Street Journal
Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
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 …
Discussion:
The Hill, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon and National Review
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.
Discussion:
Washington Post, LifeNews.com, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Right Wing Watch, Yahoo! News, The Maddow Blog, The Week, AMERICAblog, The Incidental Economist, The Caucus, Booman Tribune, First Read, Taylor Marsh, The Talking Dog, Blue Mass Group and The Volokh Conspiracy, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Yahoo! News, Capital New York and The Atlantic Wire
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, Post Politics, Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, National Review, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Conservatives4Palin and American Power
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, Chicago Tribune and CNN
RELATED:
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to rally support for immigration reform as Senate weighs bill
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 …
Discussion:
GigaOM, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, New York Times, AllThingsD, Boing Boing, NYT Bits and Mashable