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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Glenn Greenwald: New bombshell coming — Another big National Security Agency scoop is coming soon, Glenn Greenwald said on Monday. — “I will say that there are vast programs, both domestic and international spying, that the world will be shocked to learn about, that the NSA is engaged …
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Edward Joseph Snowden / WikiLeaks:
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow — One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will.
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Washington Post:
Plugging the leaks in the Edward Snowden case — THE COSTS of the Edward Snowden affair continue to mount for the Obama administration — though so far the visible damage is primarily political, rather than national security-related. On Monday, President Obama and Secretary …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Don't fear the leaker: Column
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CNN:
Kremlin: Snowden has given up on plan to stay in Russia
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The Jawa Report, TechCrunch and New Republic
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Greenwald Slams Obama On Fox & Friends: Targeting Snowden ‘To Intimidate Future Whistle Blowers’
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The Raw Story, Smartypants and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Asylum Options Narrow Further for Snowden
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Kathy Lally / Washington Post:
Snowden withdraws request for asylum in Russia
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Snowden withdraws Russian asylum bid
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RT, Guardian and The Hinterland Gazette
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
REVEALED: Here Are The Countries Where Edward Snowden Has Requested Asylum
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americanthinker.com, Reuters and RT
Ashley Collman / Daily Mail:
‘All he did was love me’: Heartbreaking moment police shoot and kill dog that was defending owner when officers arrested him for FILMING them — Leon Rosby, 52, was walking his dog and video-tapping a police scene when he was arrested for obstruction of justice
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Larry Altman / Daily Breeze:
Hawthorne police kill dog during arrest of owner, video of shooting goes viral
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Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Obama: Being First Lady is like living in a ‘really nice prison’ — ANALYSIS WHITE HOUSE BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday described living in the White House as like being in a “really nice prison.” — Obama's comment came during her discussion …
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Michelle Malkin, Twitchy, JustOneMinute, Weekly Standard, The Hinterland Gazette, The Jawa Report, TheBlaze.com and Mediaite
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Appears With Bush at Site of Tanzania Terror Blast
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Davis popular, but Gubernatorial bid a long shot — PPP's new Texas poll finds that Wendy Davis made a good impression on voters in the state last week- but that Rick Perry has also enhanced his political standing considerably over the last five months, making him tough to beat for reelection.
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Reuters:
Egypt on the edge after Mursi rebuffs army ultimatum — (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi rebuffed an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt's political crisis, saying on Tuesday that he had not been consulted and would pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalist dead, 1 raped, more attacked in Egypt — The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the security of journalists covering ongoing mass protests in Egypt. One journalist was killed and seven others were injured, including one raped, while covering demonstrations …
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Guardian, PolicyMic and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Dan Balz Book: Mitt Romney Voted Against 2012 Run In Family Poll — WASHINGTON — Over the Christmas break of 2010, Mitt Romney and his family took an internal poll on whether he should run for president once more. Twelve family members cast ballots. Ten said no. One of the 10 was Mitt Romney himself.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
What if Hillary Clinton passes on 2016? — For Democrats, there is no fallback: It's Hillary Clinton or probably a long bout of depression ahead of 2016. — With expectations hitting a fever pitch three-and-a-half years out that Clinton is running for president again, every move she makes …
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Hot Air, Booman Tribune, Taegan Goddard's …, msnbc.com, Weasel Zippers and Shakesville
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A racial turnabout in the George Zimmerman trial. — “It's not about racial profiling,” said lawyer Daryl Parks about the murder trial of George Zimmerman. “We never claimed this was about race.” — What makes these statements “head-scratching,” as New York's Daily News describes them …
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PolicyMic, Instapundit and American Thinker
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
CNN BROADCASTS ZIMMERMAN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
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Scared Monkeys, Twitchy and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Lee Habeeb / National Review:
Guilty of Being Southern — Media and academic elites prefer to focus on the old South while a new one marches on. — Over the years, my African-American friends have shared with me stories of the senseless traffic stops they've endured for nothing more than driving while black.
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Washington Monthly and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
How the GOP stopped worrying about Latinos and learned to love the base — In a June 23, 2012 photo, Mauricia Horta Fuentes, 36, at the fence marking the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Gregory Bull/AP) — If the 2012 election was a wakeup call for Republicans to address …
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
John Kerry's Bid for Mideast Peace Is Doomed — It's a testament to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's grit, determination and self-assurance that he refuses to give up in his quest to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. But I wish that he would …
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
LeVar Burton explains his ritual to prevent being shot by police — He's not exactly known for bad behavior, but even the former host of the children's show Reading Rainbow fears he will be mistreated by police because of his skin color. — Actor and director LeVar Burton explained Monday …
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ThinkProgress and Colorlines
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
G.O.P. Groups Offering Cover for Lawmakers on Immigration — WASHINGTON — Fox News viewers in Florida will see a new commercial in the coming weeks urging them to call Senator Marco Rubio. “Thank him for keeping his promise, and fighting to secure the border,” a narrator says in the ad …
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David Lat / Above the Law:
A Law School's Possible Purge Of Its Junior Faculty Ranks — As law school applications continue to decline, law schools must make hard choices. A law school can maintain the size of its entering class — and the revenue stream generated by those students — but at the cost of lowering its admissions standards.
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