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New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes — (CNN) — The federal government has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents in the aftermath of surveillance disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, U.S. officials tell CNN.
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Business Insider, Hinterland Gazette, Defense One, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
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The Intercept:
Barack Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers — Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept.
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Bloomberg View, Business Insider, Associated Press, Firedoglake, New York Times, The PJ Tatler, Hit & Run, The Hill, Defense One, Mediaite, The Verge and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Former Va. governor's trial: McDonnell staffers called Williams the ‘tic tac man’ — Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, are battling a 14-count public-corruption indictment that alleges they lent the prestige of the governor's office to a Richmond-area businessman in exchange for gifts and loans.
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National Review and The PJ Tatler
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In Virginia Graft Case, Cognac and Golf Trips Aren't Smoking Guns — RICHMOND, Va. — Seven days into their corruption trial, former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, have been portrayed as venal and grasping, eager to star in their own episode of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” …
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Taylor Marsh

U.S. policymakers gird for rash of corporate expatriations — Washington policymakers are bracing for a wave of corporations to renounce their U.S. citizenship over the next few months, depriving the federal government of billions of dollars in tax revenue and stoking public outrage ahead of the Nov. 4 congressional elections.
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ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, Reuters, American Thinker and The Federalist
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Washington Post:
Frustration over stalled immigration action doesn't mean Obama can act unilaterally
Frustration over stalled immigration action doesn't mean Obama can act unilaterally
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Business Insider and WayneDupree.com
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House Weighs Actions to Deter Overseas Tax Flight
White House Weighs Actions to Deter Overseas Tax Flight
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Daily Kos, White House Dossier and Patterico's Pontifications

Democrats throw kitchen sink at Republicans ahead of midterms — Democrats are throwing the kitchen sink at Republicans in a bid to keep the Senate and erode the GOP's House majority in November's elections. — While the Democrats' official campaign strategy focuses wholly on the economy …
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Why the president becomes more powerful when Congress fails
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Bloomberg View

Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords — A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
UNSEALED: The US Sought Permission To Change The Historical Record Of A Public Court Proceeding — A few weeks ago we fought a battle for transparency in our flagship NSA spying case, Jewel v. NSA. But, ironically, we weren't able to tell you anything about it until now.
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Firedoglake

Are we facing a GOP takeover in 2014? — Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise, and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine …

Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst — BAGHDAD — Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, National Review and Prairie Weather

Liberals Are Killing Art — How the Left became obsessed with ideology over beauty — Do more and more liberals find the emotions unleashed by the arts—I mean all of the arts, from poetry to painting to dance—something of an embarrassment? Are the liberal-spirited people who support …
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alicublog

Analysis: The diplomatic war begins — As Israel's military campaign in Gaza is seemingly over, the ensuing diplomatic process will be grueling, extend for a longer period than four weeks, and be fought on various fronts. — The latest round in Israel's ongoing military battle is seemingly over.
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Israpundit and Power Line
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Jimmy Carter / Foreign Policy:
How to Fix It — Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas …
How to Fix It — Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas …
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Fox News, Washington Post, Political Insider blog, The PJ Tatler and The Dish
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Ted Cruz is burning bridges in Washington. Does it matter? — Lately, I had been thinking about writing a piece asking the question of whether Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is more like the late Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) or if he is more like President Ronald Reagan.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Anatomy of a Power Grab — Since my Sunday column was a little on the shrill side, accusing President Obama of contemplating domestic policy “caesarism” on immigration policy, I thought I'd do a follow-up addressing the various, “maybe you should calm down” objections.
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Power Line, Washington Post, National Review, Hot Air and The Dish

Amash after win: Ellis is 'what's wrong with politics' — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD/AP) — After Republican U.S. Rep. Justin Amash beat challenger Brian Ellis in the Third Congressional District primary, he said Ellis's campaign was “disgusting” and “despicable.”
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Talking Points Memo, Fox17, Roll Call and Business Insider
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ/NBC poll finds widespread economic anxiety — Still scarred by a recession that ended five years ago, Americans are registering record levels of anxiety about the opportunities available to younger generations and are pessimistic about the nation's long-term prospects, directing their blame at elected leaders in Washington.
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Mediaite, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider and The Lonely Conservative

$619 billion missed from federal transparency site — WASHINGTON — A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. — And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate …
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Weekly Standard and RT

Feinstein puts Obama on the spot over CIA's ‘torture report’ edits Yahoo News 56 mins ago — The chief author of the Senate's so-called “torture report” urged President Obama on Tuesday to make more of the document available to the public, over the objections of the CIA.
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RT and Hullabaloo

How Pat Roberts beat Milton Wolf — The Republican establishment's latest triumph over tea party activists in a Senate primary this year — Pat Roberts' narrower-than-expected win over challenger Milton Wolf on Tuesday night — came with a big lift from party headquarters in Washington.
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Outside the Beltway and The Hugh Hewitt Show

The Noisy, Quixotic, Delusional Tea Partiers of August — Republican insurgents have caused lots of trouble but won few victories this year. But GOP incumbents aren't out of danger yet. — Remember Chris McDaniel? Back in May, the Mississippi Republican state senator nearly took out a 36-year incumbent, Senator Thad Cochran.
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Politico:
Kansas showdown: The tea party's last shot
Kansas showdown: The tea party's last shot
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Power Line, BuzzFeed, Hot Air and FiveThirtyEight