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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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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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Yahoo! News:
Lindsey Graham: ‘If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham would propose censoring Americans' ‘snail’ mail if he thought it would help protect national security, the South Carolina Republican said Tuesday. But for now, he says he doesn't think it's necessary.
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Philip Ewing / Politico:
Booz Allen fires Edward Snowden, says they didn't pay him $200K — Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has fired Edward Snowden, the computer technician who acknowledged leaking classified documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post, the company announced.
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New York Times:
Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel — WASHINGTON — As Justice Department officials began the process Monday to charge Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician, with disclosing classified information, he checked out of a hotel in Hong Kong where he had been holed …
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.
Jeff Merkley:
Senators: End Secret Law
Senators: End Secret Law
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Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’
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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 …
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Washington Post:
In NSA programs, democracy works in secret
In NSA programs, democracy works in secret
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer: No comparison between Obama, Bush secret surveillance
Hoyer: No comparison between Obama, Bush secret surveillance
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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?
Leaks fallout: How bad could it be?
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Rand Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program
A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program
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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
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The Official Google Blog:
Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data — This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read the full text below. -Ed. — Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
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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.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Kelly Ayotte, GOP star, changes mind on immigration … Immigration wasn't the main issue in the 2010 New Hampshire Senate race. But it was a topic of great interest for many Republican voters, and GOP candidate Kelly Ayotte took a pretty hard line. — Rather than calling …
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Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Wake Up! — In 2007, John McCain's “comprehensive” …
Wake Up! — In 2007, John McCain's “comprehensive” …
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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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Matthew DeLuca / U.S. News:
Ambassador responds to allegations of misconduct from State Department memo — The State Department is responding to claims that officials may have covered up alleged illegal and inappropriate behavior by department personnel, while an ambassador is accused of “routinely” soliciting sexual favors.
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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 …
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
The New York Times Inadvertently Posts a Weiner Sexting Story Online
The New York Times Inadvertently Posts a Weiner Sexting Story Online
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Durbin: FISA declassification bill dead on arrival — A bipartisan effort to declassify key federal court opinions justifying domestic surveillance of American citizens is dead on arrival, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat said Tuesday. — “I encourage this, though I think it is going to be ill-fated …
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Cole Premo / CBS Minnesota:
Franken ‘Very Well Aware Of’ NSA Tracking Phone Records
Franken ‘Very Well Aware Of’ NSA Tracking Phone Records
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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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eagletonpollblog:
RUTGERS-EAGLETON POLL: DEMOCRATS GIVE BOOKER EARLY LEAD IN SEN. PRIMARY; MOST VOTERS OPPOSE SPECIAL ELECTION SCHEDULING GIVEN COST — Click here for a PDF of the full text of the release with Questions and Tables. — DEMOCRATS GIVE BOOKER EARLY LEAD IN SEN. PRIMARY BUT MOST VOTERS OPPOSE SPECIAL ELECTION SCHEDULING GIVEN COST
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David Scharfenberg / WBUR:
WBUR Poll Suggests Gomez Struggling To Catch Markey
WBUR Poll Suggests Gomez Struggling To Catch Markey
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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data? — Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove. — As people have tried to make sense of the recent revelations about the government's mass …
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings — Bill would compel government to disclose opinions of secret Fisa court whose judgments underpin US surveillance programs — A bipartisan group of eight senators will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would force …
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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
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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.
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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.
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