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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 …
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Miriam Elder / Guardian:
Edward Snowden never crossed border into Russia, says foreign minister — Sergei Lavrov's comments about fugitive US whistleblower deepen mystery surrounding his whereabouts — Russia's foreign minister has said the surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden never crossed the border into Russia …
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BBC and Outside the Beltway
ABC News:
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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Hot Air
John Cassidy / News Desk:
Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On? — As I write this, a bunch of reporters are flying from Moscow to Havana on an Aeroflot Airbus 330, but Edward Snowden isn't sitting among them. His whereabouts are unknown. He might still be in the V.I.P. lounge at Sheremetyevo International Airport.
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
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 …, New York Times, AMERICAblog, BobCesca.com and TBogg
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock
Putin Is Cleaning Obama's Clock
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Reuters, Power Line, Israel Matzav and The Huffington Post
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, VodkaPundit, Reuters and New York Times
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
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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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Danny Werfel, IRS Chief, Says Inappropriate Screening Was Used More Broadly Than Disclosed
Danny Werfel, IRS Chief, Says Inappropriate Screening Was Used More Broadly Than Disclosed
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The Raw Story and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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, The Reaction and 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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Washington Post, theusconstitution.org, Prairie Weather, Associated Press, Crooks and Liars, Yahoo! News and New York Times
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Mary Dudziak / CNN:
A big step backward on race
A big step backward on race
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Balkinization, SCOTUSblog and ImmigrationProf Blog
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Immigration reform passes key Senate test in 67-27 vote on border measure — Fifteen of the “yes” votes were Republicans, suggesting supporters could hit the 70-vote threshold they hope to reach in the final vote. It is thought a big, bipartisan vote could put pressure in the GOP-held House …
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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
Immigration reform: Senate backs ‘border surge’ in test vote
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Red Alert Politics, The Mahablog, Daily Kos 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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American Spectator and Weasel Zippers
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
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
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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Techdirt, The Raw Story, Hit & Run, Mediaite, 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, Daily Kos, The Other McCain, The Moderate Voice, Yahoo! News and Bangor Daily News
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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Spiegel Online and Weasel Zippers
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 …
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
Mike Hogan / The Huffington Post:
Was Hastings' Car Hacked? — The peculiar circumstances of journalist Michael Hastings' death in Los Angeles last week have unleashed a wave of conspiracy theories. — Now there's another theory to contribute to the paranoia: According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car.
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Infowars, TBogg and No More Mister Nice Blog
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?
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Experts' verdict: Obama's climate effort a good first step but not enough — President Barack Obama's new climate change agenda may be ambitious, but experts warn it won't be enough to avoid the worst effects of a warming planet. — The climate threat is so severe, they say …
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CNN, ThinkProgress and Hot Air
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
Climate Change and Financial Instability Seen as Top Global Threats — Survey Report — Publics around the world are concerned about the effect of global climate change and international financial instability, with majorities in many of the nations surveyed saying these are major threats to their countries.
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CNN, ThinkProgress and The Huffington Post
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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The Fix, Poynter, Yahoo! News, BuzzFeed, National Review, Post Politics and Taegan Goddard's …
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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Politico