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12:15 AM ET, June 17, 2013

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Mike Allen / Politico:
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY — RYAN LIZZA: McCain chafes at Rubio — SCHUMER: Immigration needs 70 votes in Senate to give momentum for House — EMMETT BELIVEAU named director of White House Military Office  —  BULLETIN - Jennifer Epstein: “White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told Bob Schieffer …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Dick Cheney: Edward Snowden Is A ‘Traitor’ And Possibly A Chinese Spy  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Edward Snowden betrayed his country by leaking classified documents about the U.S. government's surveillance programs and warned that the former National …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Crooks and Liars
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
DNI denies NSA analysts can tap calls without a warrant  —  The intelligence community on Sunday rejected claims from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and reports suggesting that intelligence analysts were able to listen to domestic phone conversations without warrants.
Discussion: Politico
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham Warns GOP: 'It Doesn't Matter Who We Run In 2016′ If Immigration Reform Fails  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — one of the Republican co-sponsors of an immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11.1 million undocumented immigrations …
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NBC News:
June 14: Lindsey Graham, Saxby Chambliss, Mark Udall, Bobby Scott, David Ignatius, James Risen, Andrea Mitchell  —  Below:  —  DAVID GREGORY:  —  This Sunday, are we ramping up for war in Syria?  How far will President Obama go to stop the bloodshed?  A red-line cost by the Assad regime.
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Six amendments to watch in Senate immigration reform fight
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Sen. Rubio says most of immigration reform bill in ‘perfect shape’
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, CNN and National Review
Ramzy Mardini / New York Times:
Bad Idea, Mr. President  —  AMMAN, Jordan — ACCORDING to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama risks looking like a “fool” if he decides not to intervene militarily in Syria's continuing civil war.  Likening the situation to his decision to intervene in Kosovo in 1999, Mr. Clinton said Tuesday …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama ‘failed’ in Syria
Discussion: Politico
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Menendez: Time to ‘tip the scales’ in Syria
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Cheney defends NSA surveillance  —  Critics of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs are wrong in their views because terror threats persist, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.  —  Cheney was deeply involved in revamping national security programs after Sept. 11 …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Cheney calls Snowden a ‘traitor,’ defends NSA surveillance programs
Discussion: Reuters, Scared Monkeys, CNN and Politico
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Dick Cheney Laughs Off Privacy Concerns Over Government Surveillance
Ben Geman / The Hill:   McDonough: Obama will speak about NSA
Jason Miks / Global Public Square:
‘Everybody benefits from girls being educated’  —  “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN  —  Fareed speaks with Egyptian-born columnist Mona Eltahawy about the situation in Turkey and her role in the upcoming documentary ‘Girl Rising,’ which is premiering this Sunday on CNN at 9 p.m. ET.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
CNN CITES SUBWAY CENSOR ELTAHAWY AS AUTHORITY ON FREEDOM
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Atlas Shrugs
Fred J. Eckert / Politico:
House approach on Benghazi: Crazy — or plain stupid?  —  Sometimes watching Speaker John Boehner and his House Republican “leadership” team in action calls to mind that scene from “Forrest Gump” in which Bubba's mother looks incredulously at Forrest and asks: “Are you crazy — or just plain stupid?”
Jerusalem Post:
Syria: Egypt's Morsi joining US, Israeli conspiracy  —  Damascus lashes out at Egyptian president, Muslim Brotherhood after Morsi severs ties with Bashar Assad's regime.  —  Syria on Sunday harshly criticized Cairo's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Damascus …
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
Goodbye Pam's House Blend: After Nine Years, Closing the Coffeehouse July 1  —  It's as good as any time to share this; the blog started without any fanfare back in 2004, so why not drop the news when people should be out (hopefully) enjoying life offline, and fellow bloggers are heading off to Netroots Nation.
ODNI Newsroom Feed:
ODNI Statement on the Limits of Surveillance Activities  —  The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect and was not briefed to Congress.  Members have been briefed on the implementation of Section 702 …
The Boston Globe:
A 13-point gap with 10 days to go, but disengaged voters remain unpredictable  —  Democrat Edward J. Markey holds a solid lead over his Republican rival, Gabriel E. Gomez, as the two enter the final week of the special US Senate campaign, according to a new Boston Globe poll.
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Gabriel Gomez endorses ENDA
 
 
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Marc Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Sliding Down the Syrian Slope
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Louie Gohmert Accuses FBI Of Aiding Muslim Brotherhood: ‘They Want Sharia Law, Not Our Constitution’
Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare
Ian Johnson / New York Times:
Leaving the Land: China's Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama - That You Can't Switch Off
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Telegraph:
Barack Obama opens up about his absent dad on Father's Day
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Jeb Bush on 2016: ‘Split ballot’ among his parents
Discussion: CNN
Ben Geman / The Hill:
McDonough: Iranian election a ‘potentially hopeful sign’
Discussion: Politico
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Proposes High-Level Talks With U.S.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bill Schools Barry on Syria
Discussion: The Dish, Althouse and Prairie Weather
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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