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3:55 PM ET, September 8, 2013

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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McKeon says he would vote for Syria action if sequestration fixed  —  House Armed Services Chairman (R-Calif.) said that he would likely vote to authorize military strikes in Syria if President Obama would address sequestration cuts to the military.  —  McKeon said on CNN's “State of the Union” …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
WH chief of staff: ‘This is not Iraq or Afghanistan’  —  (CNN) - White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough argued Sunday that a military strike in Syria would not be a repeat of previous U.S. involvements in the Middle East or North Africa.  —  On CNN's “State of the Union,” McDonough said it's …
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
President Obama's toughest Syria hurdle: The calendar  —  On the short list of seemingly intractable obstacles to President Barack Obama's Syria plans: a war-weary nation, the feckless United Nations — and the Gregorian calendar.  —  From the beginning, Obama's recent Syria push has been hobbled …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and CNN
Politico:
Denis McDonough confronts Syria skepticism  —  White House chief of staff Denis McDonough took to the airwaves Sunday to make the administration's strongest case for strikes on Syria — even as a pointedly bipartisan group of members of Congress lined up against the Obama administration.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Rand Paul lays out demands ahead of potential Syria filibuster
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Obama's Battle for Syria Votes, Taut and Uphill
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Syria resolution could stall Congress's work on divisive domestic issues
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Charlie Rose interviews Bashar Assad  —  Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus on Sunday morning.  —  The interview, Assad's first with an American television network in nearly two years, will air in its entirety on PBS's “Charlie Rose” …
David Rose / Daily Mail:
And now it's global COOLING!  Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year  — Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month  —  A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles …
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Hayley Dixon / Telegraph:
Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists
Discussion: National Review
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Pundit Shuts Down Network's Hysteria Over Benghazi: 'It's Gone, Baby.  It's In Your Head'  —  Fox News' Juan Williams tersely dismissed the GOP's year-long effort to implicate the Obama administration in a so-called “cover-up” of the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011  —  The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately …
Conrad Black / New York Sun:
Collapse of American Influence Recalls Dis-Integration of Soviet Union, Fall of France  —  Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States.
Discussion: Power Line
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Jason Clayworth / USA Today:
Iowa grants gun permits to the blind  —  No one questions the legality of the permits, but some officials worry about public safety.  —  CONNECT  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Here's some news that has law enforcement officials and lawmakers scratching their heads:
Spiegel Online:
NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data  —  SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.
Alexandra Hudson / Reuters:
Syrian forces may have used gas without Assad's permission: paper  —  (Reuters) - Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany's Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence.
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Here's Michele Bachmann thanking the Egyptian military for the coup and crackdowns  —  Three U.S. lawmakers who have generated controversy for their statements about Islam and Muslim Americans released a video Saturday praising the Egyptian military and thanking it for staging the July 3 …
Discussion: Business Insider
Mark Nicol / Daily Mail:
Britain sent poison gas chemicals to Assad: Proof that the UK delivered Sarin agent to Syrian regime for SIX years  —  British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could have been used to produce the deadly nerve agent that killed 1,400 people, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Amid presidential murmurs, Warren to address AFL-CIO  —  LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will address a key faction of the liberal base Monday as speculation intensifies that she will someday seek the presidency.  —  Helping to open the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Prairie Weather
 
 
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Ariel Ben Solomon / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Iran, Syria and Hezbollah planning response to attack on Syria
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
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Michael Sallah / Washington Post:
LEFT WITH NOTHING.  —  On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house …
New York Times:
With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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Dustin Weaver / The Hill:
Fears of wounding Obama weigh heavily on Democrats ahead of vote
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Congressional veterans line up against military intervention in Syria
Talking Points Memo:
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NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg: Bill de Blasio's campaign is ‘racist’
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama to hold Syria interviews with 6 TV networks
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Direct link between Assad and gas attack elusive for U.S.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Atlas Shrugs