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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Cheat Sheet - I Pushed the Lance Armstrong Lie

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July 31, 2014
OPEN LETTER
After watching the documentary about Greg LeMond and French cyclist Bernard Hinault, Mark McKinnon—who served 10 years on the Lance Armstrong Foundation board—is apologizing to LeMond for helping to push the myth of Armstrong at the expense of LeMond's truly heroic tale as the only American to fairly win the Tour de France.
HORROR SHOW
Congress was shocked Thursday when a Syrian defector recounted how he documented Bashar al-Assad's killing of more than 11,000 innocents. That's just the beginning, according to "Caesar." Josh Rogin reports on the hearing and what one prosecutor called "crimes the likes of which we have not seen since Auschwitz."
OVER THE LINE
After repeated denials from the head of the CIA that his agents hacked into Senate computers, the spy agency's Inspector General's Office found that they did in fact do it. The report says CIA personnel improperly accessed Senate Intelligence Committee computers when they were being used to put together a report on the agency's detention and interrogation program. On Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan briefed and apologized to Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss.
NOTORIOUS R.B.G.

In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo's Katie Couric, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reaffirmed her criticism of the recent Hobby Lobby decision, saying "contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny." Ginsburg also said that she'd "never seen the free exercise of religion clause interpreted in such a way" and that "no employer… should be able to transfer that employer's religious belief onto people who do not share it." Couric also asked Ginsburg if the five male justices in the majority truly understood their decision, to which Ginsburg responded, "I would have to say, no." Ginsburg called their lack of understanding a "blind spot."

ANNIHILATED
President Obama says he wants to get rid of the world's nuclear weapons, but when an employee at the nation's premier nuclear lab suggested the same thing, he got axed. Douglas Birch of the Center for Public Integrity reports.

DEVELOPING
Chicago Worker Shot Boss After Demotion
Before taking his own life.
UH OH
Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads
Now in four Southeast Asian countries.
SORRY BIG LABOR
Wisc. High Court Upholds Anti-Union Law
Ends most collective bargaining for public workers.
HARD WORKER
Seattle Cop Issued 80% of Pot Tickets
Disproportionately to blacks.
BEANTOWN BLUES
Red Sox Trade Jon Lester
To Athletics for Yoenis Cespedes.

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