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U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage in leaks about NSA surveillance programs — Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs …
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U.S. charges Snowden with espionage — Washington (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have charged Edward Snowden, the man who admitted leaking top-secret details about U.S. surveillance programs, with espionage and theft of government property, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Friday.
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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.
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Top Shulman aide frequent White House visitor
Top Shulman aide frequent White House visitor
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell: The IRS Scandal Probably Doesn't Reach The White House
McConnell: The IRS Scandal Probably Doesn't Reach The White House
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White House doesn't have ‘figure on costs’ of Africa trip
White House doesn't have ‘figure on costs’ of Africa trip
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Leahy: GOP Border Security Amendment ‘A Christmas Wish List For Haliburton’ — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Friday that the new border security amendment added to the immigration reform bill in the Senate is nothing more than a gift to defense contractors, but the Senate Judiciary Committee …
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First Thoughts: What the farm bill's defeat tells us about immigration's chances
First Thoughts: What the farm bill's defeat tells us about immigration's chances
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Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Reid Moves to Wrap Up Immigration Debate
Reid Moves to Wrap Up Immigration Debate
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Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid schedules vote on border security amendment for Monday
Reid schedules vote on border security amendment for Monday
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JohnE / Ace of Spades HQ:
Is Michael Bloomberg Using City Resources For His “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” Group? — I really hate doing the question headline, but this definitely needs answering. I started poking around last night. — At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.
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Politico:
Bloomberg site registered to city — The name “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” is well known as Mike Bloomberg's gun-control arm, which he spends his personal fortune through on ads. Yet the group's website is registered to, and handled by, official city government servers and staffers.
Washington Post:
New pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC attracts donors and worries — The campaign has a flashy Web site and official logo T-shirts and signs. Prominent Democrats have endorsed it and written $25,000 checks. Its paid operatives and volunteers have set up shop in an Alexandria strip mall office …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton wants a female president ‘in my lifetime’
Hillary Clinton wants a female president ‘in my lifetime’
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Fischer: Democrats Are Going to Tell President Obama to ‘Sit in the Back of the Bus’
Fischer: Democrats Are Going to Tell President Obama to ‘Sit in the Back of the Bus’
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Crooks and Liars, The Daily Caller and Daily Mail
The Kickstarter Blog:
We were wrong — On Wednesday morning Kickstarter was sent a blog post quoting disturbing material found on Reddit. The offensive material was part of a draft for a “seduction guide” that someone was using Kickstarter to publish. The posts offended a lot of people — us included — and many asked us to cancel the creator's project.
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Julia Moskin / New York Times:
Food Network Drops Paula Deen — Paula Deen, the self-proclaimed queen of Southern cooking and a sugary mainstay of the Food Network, was dropped by the network on Friday, following a bewildering day in which she failed to show up for an interview on the “Today” show and then in two online videos begged …
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Guardian:
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications — Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal
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Firedoglake, Mashable, Gawker, Boing Boing, Techdirt, BBC, Mediaite, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hinterland Gazette and The Agonist
Matt Berman / NationalJournal.com:
Rep. Louie Gohmert Has Some Feelings About the Farm Bill, America — On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert gave a long, rambling floor speech. This isn't the most unusual thing to see happen on the House floor on a Thursday afternoon, but Gohmert really made this 30-minutes count:
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Farm Bill's Fate in House Bodes Ill for Immigration Reform — WASHINGTON — The story of the 113th Congress was on display during a single afternoon this week. — On the Senate floor on Thursday, Republicans and Democrats forged a hard-fought path forward on a bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
The dysfunctional House — Someone in House leadership screwed up again.
The dysfunctional House — Someone in House leadership screwed up again.
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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 …
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Richard L. Hasen / The Daily Beast:
What's Taking the Supreme Court So Long? — The biggest cases are still to come—and we should be celebrating this drawn-out finale, writes Richard L. Hasen, in defense of the court's end-of-term crunch. — With everyone anxiously awaiting potentially blockbuster decisions on issues …
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American Prospect
Terrell McSweeny / The White House:
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts — WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: — Denise Bauer - Ambassador to Belgium, Department of State — John Berry - Ambassador to Australia, Department of State
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Preemptive Strike: Conservatives Vow To Defy Supreme Court If It Rules For Marriage Equality — George Wallace defied a federal court order to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963 — Drawing what they called a line “we cannot and will not cross,” more than 200 conservative activists released …
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media ‘Journolist’ — Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of “Journolist,” a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal!
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Mediaite and Washington Monthly, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Profits Without Production — One lesson from recent economic troubles has been the usefulness of history. Just as the crisis was unfolding, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff — who unfortunately became famous for their worst work — published a brilliant book with the sarcastic title “This Time Is Different.”
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Firedoglake, Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman
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 …
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