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8:45 AM ET, August 22, 2013

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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman  — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email  —  Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.  —  “I am Chelsea Manning.
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Chelsea E. Manning / TODAY.com:
‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement  —  Video: “I am Chelsea Manning.  I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday.  Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court struck down program  —  The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
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New York Times:
Secret Court Rebuked N.S.A. on Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2011 for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil, including a program that is collecting tens of thousands of domestic e-mails …
Discussion: MiamiHerald.com and TalkLeft
Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional  —  Update: In response to EFF's FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional.  —  For over a year, EFF has been fighting …
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Court: NSA collected domestic emails, violating the Constitution
Discussion: ABC News and Yahoo! News
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Jindal plummets and other notes from Louisiana  —  Three years ago in August PPP declared Bobby Jindal to be the most popular Governor in the country.  58% of voters approved of him to only 34% who disapproved.  Jindal's fortunes have seen an amazing shift since that time though …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Louisiana GOPers Unsure If Katrina Response Was Obama's Fault  —  A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.
Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Polls show Louisianians disappointed with Jindal, blame Obama for post-Katrina response
jhnewsandguide.com:
Breaking news: Cheney pays $220 for fishing license ticket  —  Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Jackson Hole News&Guide  —  U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Lynne Cheney posted a $220 bond in Ninth Circuit Court in Teton County on Monday on a charge of making a false statement to procure a fishing license.
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Talking Points Memo:
Liz Cheney Pays Fine For Fishy Fishing License  —  Republican Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney paid a $220 bond Wednesday for making a false statement on an application for a fishing license last year, Jackson Hole News&Guide reported.  —  Records show that the daughter …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Seth / GLAAD:
Wentworth Miller rejects Russian film festival invitation; ‘As a gay man, I must decline’  —  Actor and screenwriter Wentworth Miller today rejected an invitation to attend the St. Petersburg International Film Festival, citing Russia's anti-LGBT laws.  In a letter to the Festival's Director …
Lanny J. Davis / The Hill:
The anti-Clinton media — here we go again  —  Not everyone is as apparently obsessed with writing vitriol about the Clintons as Maureen Dowd, the New York Times's op-ed columnist.  For example, last Saturday, Dowd compared the Clintons to the self-destructive cartoon character Wile E. Coyote.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Maureen Dowd: I ‘screwed up’
Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Sparks fly after Sen. Marble's ‘chicken’ comment in poverty hearing  —  DENVER — Democratic lawmakers couldn't believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and WTVR-TV
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Obama Hasn't Evolved on Pot — Yet  —  President Barack Obama doesn't favor changing marijuana laws “at this point” but he also believes that federal law enforcement resources should not be focused on individual users, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.
The White House:
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria  —  The United States is deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of Syrian civilians have been killed in an attack by Syrian government forces, including by the use of chemical weapons, near Damascus earlier today.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Suspects Syria Used Gas
Mario Trujillo / Ballot Box:
Brown opts out of run for Mass. governor  —  Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Wednesday night he will not run for Massachusetts governor in 2014.  —  Brown said he wanted to remain in the private sector, noting that another run for public office would take a lot of “thought, analysis, money and sometimes personal sacrifice.”
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
NSA scandal looms large in German election  —  ‘Germany is not a nation of surveillance.  Germany is a nation of freedom,’ Merkel says.  AP Photo  —  Close  —  BERLIN — It's election season in Germany and there's one campaign issue that won't go away: the NSA surveillance scandal.
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
GOP Strategist To MSNBC: Ted Cruz Is ‘Lying to the Voters’  —  Former John McCain campaign aide Nicolle Wallace told Morning Joe guest host Donny Deutsch that Ted Cruz was being “intellectually dishonest” in his mission to shut down the government in order to defund Obamacare …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:   Ted Cruz: Savior or bane of the Republican Party?
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
U.P.S. to End Health Benefits for Spouses of Some Workers  —  United Parcel Service has told its white-collar employees that it will stop providing health care coverage to their spouses who can obtain coverage through their own employers, joining an increasing number of companies that are restricting …
Discussion: Via Meadia
Associated Press:
Feds running out of wildfire money  —  Running out of money to fight wildfires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap.  —  The nation's top wildfire-fighting agency was down to $50 million …
Discussion: Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Mayor Bob Filner / Most Recent:
Proposed Filner settlement reached  —  City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said Wednesday night that a proposed resolution has been reached to a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Mayor Bob Filner and the city.  —  Goldsmith said the City Council, which must approve any settlement, will review the proposal on Friday.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and NPR
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Accepting Scalia's Offer, Arizona Sues Obama Administration On Voting Rights  —  Arizona and Kansas have taken Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's suggestion and sued the Obama administration in a continuing effort by both states to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
White House eyes ‘gun trust’ loophole  —  The Obama administration is working to close a loophole in the nation's gun laws that allows for some machine guns and sawed-off shotguns to be sold without the buyer submitting fingerprints or photographs.  —  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco …
Jeffrey A. Singer / Wall Street Journal:
Jeffrey Singer: The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less  —  Bypassing his third-party payer, my patient avoided a high hospital ‘list price.’  —  Every so often I have an extraordinary and surprising experience with a patient—the kind that makes us both say, “Wow, we've learned something from this.”
Rush Limbaugh:
Drive-Bys Try to Ignore Australian Student Murdered By “Bored Teens” Obsessed with Violent Rap Lyrics  —  RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I hope — I hope — that people appreciate what a public service that we provide here at the EIB Network.  And one of the many things that we do here is keep people from being bored.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Albany pols push for ban on gay ‘conversion’ therapy for teens, citing new N.J. law
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Huffington Post to end anonymous comments
Charles Falconer / Guardian:
The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act
LGBTQ Nation:
BREAKING: AG will not challenge N.M. county's same-sex marriages
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Illinois Offering $9-An-Hour Jobs To Have Workers Sign People Up For ‘Obamacare’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
The text of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's statement …
Discussion: The Daily Banter
New York Times:
Catholic Push to Overhaul Immigration Goes to Pews
Discussion: Post Politics
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Al Gore explains why he's optimistic about stopping global warming
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
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Economic Policy Institute:
A Decade of Flat Wages: The Key Barrier to Shared Prosperity and a Rising Middle Class
Daria Solovieva / Washington Times:
Egypt's Coptic Christians face unprecedented reprisals from the Muslim Brotherhood
Tom Kington / Guardian:
Ex-pope Benedict says God told him to resign during ‘mystical experience’
Joe Biden / CNN:
Beau Biden in ‘great shape’ after procedure
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
Blake Neff / The Hill:
Rep. Clyburn likens American media to Nazi propagandists
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, National Review and CNN