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9:45 AM ET, August 9, 2013

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Joncallas / Silent Circle Blog:
To Our Customers  —  We designed our phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone and Silent Text) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and our exposure to your data to be nil.  The reasons are obvious — the less of your information we have, the better it is for you and for us.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying  —  “We knew USG would come after us”.  That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service.  It hadn't been told to provide data to the government …
Erica Seifert / The National Memo:
Why Seniors Are Turning Against The GOP  —  There's something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply against the GOP.  This is apparent in seniors' party affiliation and vote intention, in their views on the Republican Party and its leaders …
Discussion: The Reaction and Hullabaloo
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Gallup:
Immigrant and U.S.-Born Hispanics Tilt Democratic  —  Hispanic immigrants to U.S. more likely than native-born to be independent  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Hispanics in the U.S. identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party over the Republican Party by about a 2-to-1 margin, regardless of whether they were U.S.-born.
Discussion: Reuters and Ballot Box
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Seniors Aren't Very Happy With the Republican Party These Days
Elise Labott / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: U.S. pulls diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan, amid terror threat  —  Washington (CNN) — The State Department has evacuated most of its diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan in response to a terrorist threat against the U.S. consulate, senior State Department and other senior U.S. officials told CNN.
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New York Times:
As Foreign Fighters Flood Syria, Fears of a New Extremist Haven
Washington Post:
Gutierrez: I've got 40-50 GOP votes for immigration reform  —  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told Post Politics' Ed O'Keefe in a newly released interview that the House has more than enough GOP votes — around 40 or 50 — to pass comprehensive immigration reform if it were brought to a vote.
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:   Gutierrez: 40-50 House Republicans will back immigration reform
Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance  —  President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Phony Fear Factor  —  We live in a golden age of economic debunkery; fallacious doctrines have been dropping like flies.  No, monetary expansion needn't cause hyperinflation.  No, budget deficits in a depressed economy don't cause soaring interest rates.  No, slashing spending doesn't create jobs.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A how-to book about inciting a moral panic.  —  Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has uncovered a fascinating document: an 80-page “talking points” monograph titled “Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging,” written by a trio of Democratic political operatives.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Anil Dash:
Shushers: Wrong about movies.  Wrong about the world.  —  [Update: Some a**hole wrote a response to this piece, about “Respecting Cinema in the Digital Age”.]  —  There's been a delightful debate the last few days about how to accommodate the increasing number of people who want the experience …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes on Megyn Kelly Report: ‘All of Our Stars Will be Back’  —  Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes is being interviewed by Neil Cavuto at this hour in California at a 21st Century Fox investors conference.  —  The first question Cavuto asked was about the rumor …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA cites case as success of phone data-collection program  —  He was a San Diego cab driver who fled Somalia as a teenager, winning asylum in the United States after he was wounded during fighting among warring tribes.  Today, Basaaly Moalin, 36, is awaiting sentencing following his conviction …
Discussion: Samizdata
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
War by wordplay  —  Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but “a reduction in staff.”  This proved a problem because the Yemeni government had already announced (and denounced) the “evacuation” …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
ABC News:
Obama Announces Friday News Conference  —  President Barack Obama says he'll hold a news conference at the White House on Friday.  —  Obama will answer reporters' questions in the midst of a terror alert that led the government to close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
How Obama's Putin Snub Is Playing Out in Russia
Discussion: The Reaction
Robert Wenzel / EconomicPolicyJournal.com:
Jesse Benton on Mitch McConnell: “I'm sorta holding my nose for 2 years”  —  What does Mitch McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton really think about working for the Mitch McConnell re-election campaign?  —  EconomicPolicyJournal.com has obtained a recording of a phone conversation between Dennis Fusaro …
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Paul Krugman:
Milton Friedman, Unperson  —  David Glasner has been making a series of posts on the legacy of Milton Friedman, some of them in response to Scott Sumner; they're interesting if you want to delve into the intellectual history.  I'm not personally big on such things — in general …
Dalia Sussman / New York Times:
Quinn Leads Democratic Candidates for Mayor, Poll Finds  —  Christine C. Quinn is leading the crowded field in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor, lifted by support among Manhattanites and higher-income voters, the latest New York Times/Siena College poll finds.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Va. doctor who lent governor's firm $50,000 was offered medical board appointment  —  A Virginia Beach radiologist lent $50,000 to a real estate corporation owned by Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister in 2010 — the same year the doctor was offered an appointment to a state medical board.
Rachel Olding / Sydney Morning Herald:
When Stephanie got her facts wrong: One Nation candidate makes gaffe after gaffe in TV interview  —  Follow Rachel on Twitter Email Rachel  —  Stephanie Banister, the One Nation candidate for Rankin in Queensland, says Islam is a country and gets her facts wrong on multiple issues in an embarrassing television interview.
Discussion: WorldViews and UPROXX
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
IRS agent: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups  —  WASHINGTON SECRETS TAXES TEA PARTY IRS  —  In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Wake up America
 
 
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Mark Thoma / CBS News:
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ThinkProgress:
How A Powerful Group Of Corporations Quietly Tried To Roll Back Clean Energy Standards, And Failed Miserably
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