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12:25 PM ET, June 21, 2013

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BREITBART.COM:
AFTER PHONE CALL WITH RUBIO, O'REILLY OFFERS FULL-SCALE SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION BILL  —  Thursday night on Fox News's “The O'Reilly Factor,” host Bill O'Reilly came out in full-scale support for the immigration reform bill currently making its way through the Senate.
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Politico:
Inside the border deal that almost failed  —  Sen. Chuck Schumer spent Tuesday privately urging President Barack Obama and the entire Democratic caucus to just be patient — a border security deal they could accept was still within reach.  —  But after a testy, 45-minute call that night …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:   White House Offers Stealth Campaign to Support Immigration Bill
Jake Sherman / Politico:
The dysfunctional House  —  Someone in House leadership screwed up again.  —  The defeat of the farm bill — after both parties were privately bullish it would pass with large margins — shows, once again, how massively dysfunctional the House and its leadership has become.
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Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Arrest Warrant Prepared on Obstruction of Justice Charge, Sources Say  —  New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is now the subject of an arrest warrant drawn up on obstruction of justice charges based on the possible destruction of evidence in connection with the shooting death …
Discussion: Above the Law, The Week and ViralRead
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Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
Source: Arrest Warrant Issued For Aaron Hernandez  —  BOSTON (CBS) - Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez will be charged in connection with the shooting death of a 27-year-old Dorchester man, a law enforcement source told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 on Friday.  —  According to that source …
Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Destroyed Home Security System and Phone, Sources Tell ABC News
Discussion: AL.com, Sports Illustrated and Deadspin
Yahoo! News:
The top 9,486 ways Jay Carney won't answer your questions (interactive)  —  Jay Carney doesn't have an answer for that.  He hasn't discussed that subject with the president.  He will refer you to the Department of [insert agency here].  He refuses to speculate on that.  He'll have to get back to you.
Guardian:
Revealed: top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant  —  Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication  —  • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs  —  The National Security Agency may keep the e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and legal residents if the communications contain “significant foreign intelligence” or evidence of a crime, according to classified documents …
Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight  —  Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight.  —  The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis  —  It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown.  A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it  —  By  —  W  —  hat about the ratings agencies?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: NSA contractor hired Snowden despite concerns about resume discrepancies  —  (Reuters) - Hiring screeners at Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency, found possible discrepancies in a resume submitted by Edward Snowden, but the company still employed him …
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Reuters:
Icelandic Businessman Has Jet Ready For Snowden
Discussion: TechCrunch
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama hits a wall in Berlin  —  The question of whether Barack Obama's second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?
Discussion: Power Line
Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004  —  Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps …
Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
This is why global markets are freaking out  —  Around the world, markets were frazzled by the latest out of the Fed.  (Kin Cheung/AP)  —  A wave of selling washed across the financial world Thursday, driving the stock market down, interest rates up, and bringing new tremors of concern …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Hundreds Of Texans Stand Up Against Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill, Block It From Coming To A Vote  —  Protesters projected “End the War on Women” onto the building where the hearing on SB 5 was held.  (Credit: @TaneneAllison)  —  Texas lawmakers are currently rushing an omnibus anti-abortion bill through …
Telegraph:
WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death.  Are they implying he was murdered?  —  WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire.  On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama's crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans' phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
On the left, Howard Dean open to presidential bid  —  San Jose, California (CNN) - Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who electrified anti-war liberals during the 2004 presidential race, said Thursday he would consider another run for the White House - a statement that will surely be met …
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Revealed: Bush ancestor was heavily invested in kidnapping Africans into slavery  —  Thomas “Beau” Walker, the great-great-great grandfather to U.S. President George W. Bush, was a notorious slave trader who either personally led or heavily invested in expeditions to kidnap Africans …
Discussion: Althouse
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Simon Akam / Slate:
George W. Bush's Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader
uml.edu:
Democrats Advantage Over Republican Rival Gomez is Even Greater Among Women Voters  —  Detailed poll results and analysis are available at www.bostonherald.com and www.uml.edu/polls.  —  UMass Lowell representatives are available for interviews about today's poll.
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Gov. Cuomo was death ray target of Ku Klux Klansman  —  Nutty Glen Crawford, an industrial mechanic at General Electric, and Hudson man Eric Feight have been accused of building a deadly radiation-emitting device, which Crawford planned to use it on Gov. Cuomo, sources say.
 
 
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