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October 10, 2012 | | Breakdown Flashback She’s judging X Factor now, but Spears’s public meltdown a few years ago is at the heart of a civil trial beginning today in Los Angeles. The Daily Beast’s Maria Elena Fernandez on the sticky libel and defamation suit the Grammy winner and her parents are fighting. SPAZ ATTACK The hysterical reaction to Obama’s debate performance speaks volumes about the way politics—and the journalists who cover the subject—have changed. The Daily Beast’s Richard Just on what we’re getting wrong. STRATEGIC The U.S. has secretly sent military advisers to Jordan to help the armed forces with the flood of refugees that have come over the Syrian border, officials told The New York Times on Wednesday. The task force, comprised of about 150 planners and other specialists, will also draw up plans to protect Jordan, a key ally in the region as the Syrian civil war has spilled over into Turkey. Turkey’s chief of staff said Wednesday that they will use “greater force” if shelling continues along the Syrian border. Meanwhile, opposition fighters in Syria claimed on Wednesday to have gained control of Maarat al-Numan, a strategic town in Idlib province. NOT-SO-SECRET ANYMORE Does this mean people are actually using Bing? The whistleblowing website Cryptome.org on Tuesday published satellite images purported to be the training site for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The site reportedly used information from the book by a retired Navy SEAL about the bin Laden raid and scoured satellite images of purported CIA facilities in North Carolina—and on Bing maps they were able to locate what appears to be a mock-up of the bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. On Google maps, the purported training site, the Harvey Point Defense Testing facility, showed only a clearing in a field. ON THE TRAIL Base? What pro-life base? Mitt Romney told the Des Moines Register that abortion won’t be a part of his agenda—and Democrats immediately pounced on his words, with the Obama camp saying, “Women simply can’t trust him.” In an interview with the newspaper in Iowa—one of the key swing states—Romney said, “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.” Campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul responded by insisting Romney is “proudly pro-life,” a position that Romney has had to defend in the past, especially after he insisted he was pro-choice while running for governor of Massachusetts. | | 
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