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Officials: How Edward Snowden Could Hurt the U.S. — PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC), MIKE LEVINE (@mlevinereports), JACK DATE (@jackdate), LUIS MARTINEZ (@LMartinezABC) and JACK CLOHERTY (@jjclo) report: — As the U.S. intelligence community struggles to complete a damage assessment …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
US-China relations chill over Snowden — Press secretary Jay Carney blasted China in unusually blunt terms as the administration hunted for Snowden, the leaker of National Security Agency documents who is now believed to be hiding out in Russia. — Carney dismissed Hong Kong's legal justification …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. officials don't know how much secret material Snowden took
U.S. officials don't know how much secret material Snowden took
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Business Insider, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Associated Press
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock
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Reuters, Power Line and The Huffington Post
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Snowden Says He Took Job With Contractor To Collect Evidence Of NSA Programs
Snowden Says He Took Job With Contractor To Collect Evidence Of NSA Programs
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Taegan Goddard's …, BobCesca.com, USA Today and Weasel Zippers
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Immigration Bill Gives Hong Kong Access to the Visa Waiver Program
Immigration Bill Gives Hong Kong Access to the Visa Waiver Program
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Washington Free Beacon, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Hinterland Gazette
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout
Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout
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Miriam Elder / Guardian:
Edward Snowden leaves reporters chasing shadows around an airport
Edward Snowden leaves reporters chasing shadows around an airport
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Whiskey Fire, New York Times, VodkaPundit, Reuters and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
IRS chief: Inappropriate screening was broad — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday. — An internal IRS document obtained …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
IRS chief: Agency improperly screened groups until last month
IRS chief: Agency improperly screened groups until last month
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Politico, Hot Air, CNN, Weasel Zippers and The Reaction
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Immigration reform passes key Senate test in 67-27 vote — The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week. — Fifteen of the yes votes were Republicans, suggesting supporters …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and ViralRead
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Immigration reform: Senate backs ‘border surge’ in test vote — The support of 67 senators on a test vote for a so-called “border surge” deal on Monday strongly signaled that a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws will clear the Senate later this week.
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Red Alert Politics, Daily Kos, The Mahablog and Right Wing News
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Senate Passes Cloture Motion on Hoeven-Corker Immigration Amendment
Senate Passes Cloture Motion on Hoeven-Corker Immigration Amendment
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Weasel Zippers
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Justice Alito's Inexcusable Rudeness — A justice of the Supreme Court should not act like a high schooler on the bench; when the target is a fellow justice, the offense is even greater. — I suspect that the cause of cameras in the Supreme Court suffered a blow on Monday.
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theusconstitution.org, Associated Press, Crooks and Liars, Yahoo! News and New York Times
Tor.com Frontpage Partial:
Richard Matheson, 1926-2013 — Tor.com is saddened and staggered to learn of the passing of Richard Matheson, the esteemed author of I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House, the script for the Steven Spielberg film Duel, and many Twilight Zone scripts, among many more works.
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Los Angeles Times, The Moderate Voice and The Verge
Mary Dudziak / CNN:
Opinion: Supreme Court micromanaging diversity — Editor's note: Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. She is the author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, and Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
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SCOTUSblog, ImmigrationProf Blog, Taylor Marsh and Balkinization
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers — Customers taunt Lisa Weiss. “Talk dirty to me,” they joke. “We know you like it.” Colleagues refuse to speak with her. Strangers mock her in nasty online messages. — “Clearly she's got mental issues,” declared the latest.
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National Review, Yahoo! News and Post Politics
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Erik Wemple:
Greenwald: Beltway media types are ‘courtiers to power’ — Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald yesterday clashed with “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, who'd asked Greenwald the following question: “To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements …
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The Raw Story, Mediaite, Hit & Run, CNN and Informed Comment, more at Mediagazer »
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David Carr / New York Times:
The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger
The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger
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The Dish, The Other McCain, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Yahoo! News and Erik Wemple, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
Mitch McConnell Is Either Very Bad at Math or Horribly Disingenuous — The Senate minority leader took me to task on Friday. Unfortunately, he had his facts wrong on virtually every count. — Last Friday morning, I attended a ballyhooed speech given by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at AEI …
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Brad DeLong
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
When Journalists Attack — With its rush to compare Obama to Nixon and to overhype any and all scandals, the media is ruining America's ability to engage in nuanced debate, says Jon Favreau. — If you saw the news at any point in the last month, chances are that you heard Barack Obama compared …
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Ed Driscoll and The Moderate Voice
Mirwais Harooni / Reuters:
Afghan forces put down attack on presidential palace: police — (Reuters) - Afghan forces put down an early morning attack by Taliban insurgents on the presidential palace and nearby buildings in central Kabul on Tuesday, with police saying all the assailants had been killed after a 90-minute gunfight.
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Weasel Zippers
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Ralph Nader outlines 2016 plan — Ralph Nader insists that he's done with his own presidential races, but he still has some plans for 2016. — “I'm going to find at least ten enlightened billionaires or multibillionaires and I'm going to have a criteria. Have they spoken out about where they think the country is going?
Politico:
Obama in the doldrums — Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone. — A combination of familiar Washington intransigence and a more recent run of bad news and political setbacks have left him with less influence over his circumstances …
CNN:
Santorum jumps into show business — (CNN) - Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is getting into the movie business. — The staunch conservative, who also served as a senator from Pennsylvania, was named the chief executive of EchoLight Studios, his political action group said Monday.
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Fox News:
Why did China let Edward Snowden leave? — Also in this playlist... Fox & Friends — Hired! ‘Fox & Friends’ viewers become franchise owners … This transcript is automatically generated — Off the grass somebody else is an old friend of hers is Donald Trump club who joins us every Monday it had mr.
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Sally Gardner / Guardian:
Dyslexia is not a disability, it's a gift | Sally Gardner — So much has changed since I was an undiagnosed dyslexic at school, but its wonders and contradictions remain hard to convey — At school I was the outsider, the odd one, the word-blind child who didn't fit in.
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Natalie Solent