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4:20 PM ET, June 11, 2013

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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Solitary Leaker  —  From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man.  Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school.  Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
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ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Exclusive Interview With House Speaker John Boehner on NSA Leak, Immigration Reform And More  —  House Speaker John Boehner sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on “Good Moring America” to discuss the NSA leak, immigration reform, the IRS scandal and much more.
Philip Ewing / Politico:
Booz Allen fires Edward Snowden, says they didn't pay him $200K  —  Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has fired Edward Snowden, the computer technician who acknowledged leaking classified documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post, the company announced.
New York Times:
Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel  —  WASHINGTON — As Justice Department officials began the process Monday to charge Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician, with disclosing classified information, he checked out of a hotel in Hong Kong where he had been holed …
Rand Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us  —  Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy.  —  When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon's client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded …
Roger Simon / Politico:
The slacker who came in from the cold  —  Think you're a loser just because you dropped out of high school and never finished the military training you began?  —  Think you're a dud just because you work as a security guard even though you dreamed of becoming a global savior?  —  Well, don't beat yourself up.
Miriam Elder / Guardian:
Edward Snowden: Russia offers to consider asylum request  —  Vladimir Putin's spokesman says any appeal for asylum from whistleblower who fled US will be looked at ‘according to facts’  —  Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the Kremlin's latest move to woo critics of the west.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer: No comparison between Obama, Bush secret surveillance
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The T-Word  —  So now both Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairman …
Discussion: Yahoo! News, US News and The Dish
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tough immigration choice for GOP  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) plan to vote Tuesday in favor of the motion to proceed to the reform bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long.  —  But they are undecided about whether to vote “yes” on final passage.
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Booman Tribune
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Cecilia Muñoz / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: The Best Chance We've Had in Years to Fix Our Broken Immigration System
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Immigration bill has ‘serious flaws’
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Kelly Ayotte, GOP star, changes mind on immigration
Discussion: Hot Air
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda's online magazine  —  U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group's followers, according to officials.  —  The operation succeeded, at least temporarily …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Leaks fallout: How bad could it be?  —  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims the recent wave of leaks has done “huge, grave damage” to our intelligence gathering capabilities.  —  Nonsense, says Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian columnist who served as the primary conduit for the leaks …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
The Official Google Blog:
Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data  —  This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Read the full text below.  -Ed.  —  Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
New York Post:
Hillary's sorry state of affairs  —  Probes into her department's sex scandals were quashed, memo says  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's security detail …
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Matthew DeLuca / U.S. News:
Ambassador responds to allegations of misconduct from State Department memo
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Power Line
New York Times:
Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.
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Washington Post:
Obama administration drops fight to keep age restrictions on Plan B sales
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
The New York Times takes down Anthony Weiner story  —  The New York Times “inadvertently” posted an article on the women involved in Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal — and then deleted it.  —  “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers” by Michael Barbaro was posted on the Times's website Monday …
eagletonpollblog:
RUTGERS-EAGLETON POLL: DEMOCRATS GIVE BOOKER EARLY LEAD IN SEN. PRIMARY; MOST VOTERS OPPOSE SPECIAL ELECTION SCHEDULING GIVEN COST  —  Click here for a PDF of the full text of the release with Questions and Tables.  —  DEMOCRATS GIVE BOOKER EARLY LEAD IN SEN. PRIMARY BUT MOST VOTERS OPPOSE SPECIAL ELECTION SCHEDULING GIVEN COST
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Jeff Merkley:
Senators: End Secret Law  —  Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Declassify FISA Court Opinions  —  Washington, DC - Today, Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), accompanied by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mark Begich (D-AK), Al Franken …
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
What to Make of a Warming Plateau  —  As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming.  —  The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that.
Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC News/WSJ poll: Affirmative action support at historic low  —  As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a record-low number of Americans support such programs, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
 
 
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Durbin: FISA declassification bill dead on arrival
Discussion: msnbc.com, The Plum Line and Mediaite
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
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Ai Weiwei / Guardian:
NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China
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