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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: No More Drones for the CIA

Today: How Obama Became Netanyahu , South Korea Hacked , One in 50 Kids Has Autism
Cheat Sheet: Morning

March 20, 2013
POLICY SHIFT

Three senior officials tell The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman that the Obama administration is poised to shift the CIA's drone program to the Pentagon.

ISRAEL TRIP

By refusing to challenge Bibi's approach to the Palestinians, Obama has made it his own. The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart on why the president's trip to Israel is probably going to be a missed opportunity.

CYBERFIGHT

South Korea suspected the North of being responsible for a computer network outage at banks and major broadcasters on Wednesday, which sent the nation's stocks into a nosedive. The networks went down around 2:20 p.m. The operations of at least two of the banks were back up and running later in the afternoon. South Korean president Park Geun-hye has set up a cybercrisis headquarters to investigate whether the North was responsible for the outages, which came just one month after the North detonated a nuclear weapon and one day after Pyongyang threatened retaliation if the U.S. flies B-52 bombers overhead again.

EPIDEMIC

These are some dramatic numbers: one in 50 American schoolchildren has autism, meaning at least 1 million children are affected by the disease, according to a government survey of parents released on Wednesday. Health officials cautioned that the numbers reflect that autism is diagnosed more frequently—especially since it is diagnosed not through blood tests but by psychiatrists—but not necessarily that it is occurring more often. The latest study by the Centers for Disease Control is considered more accurate than the earlier figure of one in 88 schoolchildren because this study cast a far wider outreach, although fewer than a quarter of parents contacted agreed to answer the questions.

Really?!

A closet liberal? Old colleagues of the newly installed Pope Francis recall that in 2010, when Argentina was on the verge of legalizing gay marriage (and the Catholic Church led a charge against the proposed law, condemning it as the work of the devil), then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio advocated in a meeting of bishops that the Argentine church should support gay civil unions. A gay-rights leader who spoke with him said that Bergoglio supported civil unions but not same-sex marriage.The unexpected approach was more pragmatic than theological though, as he saw civil unions at the time as "the lesser of two evils," according to his authorized biographer. Still, it offers insight into the kind of pragmatic leadership he may bring to the papacy.


CRISIS
Cyprus Seeks Russian Bailout
EU threatens to cut them off.
NO APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Sanford Advances to Runoff
Colbert's sister wins Democratic nomination.
TAKE THAT
House Across From Westboro Church Painted Rainbow
Inspired by 9-year-old protester last year.
Royal Duds
Princess Diana's Gowns Sell for $1.2M
Includes dress she wore to dance with John Travolta.
HEARTBREAK WARFARE
Katy Perry, John Mayer Split
For the second time.
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