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8:20 AM ET, September 6, 2013

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Politico:
President Obama could lose big on Syria in House  —  If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big.  —  That's the private assessment of House Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides who are closely involved in the process.
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Congressional Black Caucus Instructed to Hold Tongue on Syria  —  As an increasing number of African-American lawmakers voice dissent over the Obama administration's war plans in Syria, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has asked members to “limit public comment” …
Steven Nelson / US News:
Rep. Alan Grayson: Syria Intelligence Manipulated  —  Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama needs game-changer to win House vote on Syria  —  President Obama's request for congressional approval of a military strike in Syria is facing failure and could need a significant game-changer to pass the House.  —  While the authorization request might pass the Democratic-controlled Senate …
Manu Raju / Politico:
AIPAC to go all-out on Syria  —  The powerful pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is planning to launch a major lobbying campaign to push wayward lawmakers to back the resolution authorizing U.S. strikes against Syria, sources said Thursday.  —  Officials say that some 250 Jewish leaders and AIPAC activists …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and MJ Rosenberg
Washington Post:
Obama, from Russia, urges U.S. lawmakers to back strike on Syria
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
President Obama Considers Address to Nation on Syria
Discussion: msnbc.com, ABC News and Hot Air
New York Times:
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web  —  The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy …
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Guardian:
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet  —  • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records  —  • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
ProPublica:
Revealed: The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says  —  Officials Say Intercepted Message to Militants Orders Reprisals in Iraq if Syria Hit  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike on Syria …
John Dickerson / Slate:
The Obama administration should stop pretending it's easy.  —  After almost 30 years in the Senate, Secretary of State John Kerry should've known that Senate hearings are supposed to be free of news.  As Sen. John McCain proved, you can even sit through them and play online poker.
Discussion: Washington Wire, Salon and Boing Boing
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Fareed Zakaria / TIME:
On Syria, Words Have Consequences
Discussion: The Dish and Reuters
Talking Points Memo:
Kerry Blows Up At GOP Rep For Harping On Benghazi At Syria Hearing (VIDEO)
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
The Bush Burden  —  He's there in every corner of Congress where a microphone fronts a politician, there in Russia and the British Parliament and the Vatican.  You may think George W. Bush is at home in his bathtub, painting pictures of his toenails, but in fact he's the biggest presence in the debate over what to do in Syria.
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Era of Disbelief  —  This is a particularly bad time to sell …
Justin Joseph / KDVR.com:
GOP lawmaker brings fried chicken to poverty hearing in ‘silent protest’  —  DENVER — Two weeks ago, the last meeting of a Colorado task force on economic opportunity and poverty exploded into allegations of racism when Sen. Vicki Marble, a Republican, attempted to explain high poverty rates …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
McCain gets an earful from voters on Syria  —  (CNN) - Sen. John McCain, whose endorsement of President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes against Syria provided the president a key Republican backer, faced vocal opponents of military action during a town hall in Arizona Thursday.
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Manchin, Heitkamp float alternative  —  The United States would give Syria 45 days to sign an international chemical weapons ban or face the wrath of American military might, under a draft resolution being circulated by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.).
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Right Vote  —  The statesmanlike case for voting Yes on the congressional resolution to use force against the Assad regime has been made widely and well by conservative foreign policy thinkers.  At the end, the case boils down to this: As a policy matter, a Yes vote may be problematic in all kinds of ways.
Josiah Ryan / Campus Reform the #1 Source …:
SUSPENDED: Michigan State removes prof who went on anti-Republican tirade  —  Michigan State administrators have suspended Prof. William Penn for the remainder of the semester, after he was caught on video going on an anti-Republican tirade on the very first day of his literature class.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
It's Official: Alec Baldwin to Host Talk Show on MSNBC  —  The actor and will anchor a 10 p.m. program on Fridays beginning in October.  —  Alec Baldwin  —  Alec Baldwin has finalized a deal to host a weekly night-time talk show on MSNBC.  The program - Up Late with Alec Baldwin will bow …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Years of Tragic Waste  —  In a few days, we'll reach the fifth anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers — the moment when a recession, which was bad enough, turned into something much scarier.  Suddenly, we were looking at the real possibility of economic catastrophe.  —  And the catastrophe came.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Why America Is Saying ‘No’  —  Syria and Obama: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man.  —  It is hard, if you've got a head and a heart, to come down against a strong U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its civilian population.
Lee Enterprises / Arizona Daily Sun:
Lowell Observatory's Putnam wants to name asteroid for Trayvon Martin  —  Albert Einstein.  George Takei.  Jerry Garcia.  —  All of those men and many others have had an asteroid named after them.  And if William Lowell Putnam III, trustee of Lowell Observatory, has his way, another name will be added to that list: Trayvon Martin.
New York Times:
The Federal Reserve Nomination  —  In July, when news broke that President Obama might nominate Lawrence Summers to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, several Democratic senators wrote a letter to the president in praise of Janet Yellen, the current Fed vice chairwoman who many presumed would be the nominee.
Discussion: Business Insider and Brad DeLong
 
 
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