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9:10 PM ET, June 16, 2013

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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
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Cheney calls Snowden a ‘traitor,’ defends NSA surveillance programs
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Scared Monkeys
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Cheney defends NSA surveillance
Ben Geman / The Hill:   McDonough: Obama will speak about NSA
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.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Sen. Rubio says most of immigration reform bill in ‘perfect shape’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday said that much of the Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill was in “perfect shape,” but added he would insist on tougher border security measures.  —  Rubio, one of the authors of the bill …
Discussion: Hot Air, Politico, CNN and National Review
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Six amendments to watch in Senate immigration reform fight
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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
Robert Fisk / The Independent:
Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria
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  —  On Sunday's edition of Global Public Square, CNN's Fareed Zakaria invited Mona Eltahawy to offer her perspective on the anti-government protests in Turkey and the rights of women in the Muslim world.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Atlas Shrugs
Guardian:
Revealed: how UK spied on its G20 allies at London summits  —  Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009  —  Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata  —  On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
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 …
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Jeb Bush on 2016: ‘Split ballot’ among his parents  —  Former President George H.W. Bush wants son Jeb to make his own run for the White House, the former Florida governor hinted in an interview that aired Sunday.  —  Jeb Bush's mother, Barbara, said earlier this year that there have been …
Discussion: CNN
Marc Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Sliding Down the Syrian Slope  —  President Obama's move to increase the public flow of arms to selected Syrian rebels is probably his worst foreign policy decision since taking office.  It is basically the Afghan surge decision redux: long months of grueling internal deliberation about whether …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Louie Gohmert Accuses FBI Of Aiding Muslim Brotherhood: ‘They Want Sharia Law, Not Our Constitution’
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Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
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Ian Johnson / New York Times:
Leaving the Land: China's Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Pathological Altruism  —  A simple concept that could revolutionize …
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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
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
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Washington Post:
Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general
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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

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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:
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