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1:10 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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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.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
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 …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Mediaite, The Hill, CNN and Reuters
Charles S. Clark / Government Executive:
Banqueters and the Spying News Bombshell  —  Director for National Intelligence James Clapper Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP File Photo  —  No one planned it that way, but the twin blockbuster stories exposing national security agencies' collection of domestic telephone logs and foreigners' Web traffic …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden's NSA leaks are backlash of too much secrecy
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic  —  Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy  —  OVERVIEW  —  A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
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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 …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an ‘act of treason’  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday said the 29-year-old man who leaked information about two national security programs is guilty of treason.  —  Feinstein said former National Security Agency Edward Snowden she doesn't see him as a hero or a whistle blower.
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Pro-Immigration Republicans Do Not Welcome Obama's Return To The Debate  —  After letting it play out in Congress, Obama goes big on immigration at what Republicans say is the worst possible time.  —  U.S. President Barack Obama is introduced by Tolu Olubunmi to speak in support …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tough immigration choice for GOP
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
U.S. Senate to debate sweeping immigration bill favored by Obama
Discussion: Roll Call
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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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 …
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.
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
US senators bid to force government to reveal secret surveillance rulings  —  Bill would compel government to disclose opinions of secret Fisa court whose judgments underpin US surveillance programs  —  A bipartisan group of eight senators will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would force …
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Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
Discussion: TechCrunch and Boing Boing
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.
Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Bill Daley forms exploratory committee  —  Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley is the latest Obama White House alum to set his sights on higher office in Illinois, announcing on Tuesday he's forming an exploratory campaign to run for Illinois governor.
Discussion: Washington Wire, CNN and The Caucus
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to rally support for immigration reform as Senate weighs bill
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Weasel Zippers
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's arrival on Twitter leaves followers wondering what's next  —  Her Twitter followers signed up fast, almost 1,000 of them a minute, to see what she had to say.  And Hillary Rodham Clinton, debuting on the social-media site Monday with a biography identifying her as a …
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Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:
6 Changes Hillary Clinton Made To Her Twitter Bio
Discussion: CNN and msnbc.com
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Senate Passes Farm Bill; House Vote Is Less Sure  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping new farm bill on Monday that will cost nearly $955 billion over the next 10 years, the first step in a renewed attempt at passing legislation that will set the country's food and agriculture programs and policy.
 
 
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
The New York Times takes down Anthony Weiner story
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Business Leaders Warm to Terry McAuliffe
Discussion: First Read
James Hohmann / Reuters:
Twitter war erupts in battle for Senate
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Business Insider
Ai Weiwei / Guardian:
NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China | Ai Weiwei
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Peniel E. Joseph / New York Times:
Kennedy's Finest Moment
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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CNN:
2 children beheaded by militants, Afghan authorities say
New York Times:
A Real Debate on Surveillance
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obama's power grab: Column
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals
 
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