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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Iraq VP to Obama: Stay Out of Our Civil War

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July 08, 2014
ALL OUT

ISIS is actually only one small part of a larger Sunni revolt in Iraq that has been going on for years, according to Iraq's No. 2. The Islamist extremist group may be the most high-profile, but Iraq's exiled vice president, Tare al-Hashimi, tells Josh Rogin this is an all-out rebellion by Sunnis against inhumane conditions—and the U.S. should butt out.

IN THE DARK

This weekend, a new report revealed that most targets of NSA surveillance are ordinary Internet users and intimate communications are being stored by the government. You would think the senators in charge of NSA oversight would be outraged, but Tim Mak found them to be completely clueless.

COMMUNIST PLOT

U.S. intelligence believes the Cuban government was behind claims that Bob Menendez, Democratic senator from New Jersey, was soliciting underage prostitutes. In a letter to Justice Department in April, Menendez claimed that the hooker story published by The Daily Caller in 2012 was part of a Cuban plot to thwart his reelection campaign and his efforts to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Menendez is extremely anti-Castro.) A U.S. intelligence official said the CIA obtained evidence that Havana tried to plant the rumor in U.S. and Latin American publications. Since the story first ran, three Dominican women who claimed to have sex with Menendez for money have rescinded their stories. The FBI was never able to corroborate prostitution charges against him.

RIDE FROM HELL

Your fear of roller coasters has just been validated. Two dozen visitors to Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Los Angeles were trapped for almost three hours after the Ninja roller coaster train derailed. Guests were left dangling in a "precarious position," said Michael Pittman of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, after a fallen branch on the tracks managed to send the coaster off the rails. Four riders sustained minor injuries. This is not the first theme-park horror story of the summer. Just last month, dozens were trapped on a SeaWorld San Diego ride.

RUPTURE

The Central Intelligence Agency recruited a German intelligence official in an apparent quest to get information about Berlin's probe into U.S. spying on the country and its leaders, and now Germany will have its payback. The interior minister announced that Germany is ditching the no-spy agreement it's had with the U.S. and Britain since 1945 to launch "360-degree surveillance" of intelligence-gathering operations in the country. The German double agent was arrested last week on suspicion of being a foreign spy and investigators found an encrypted program disguised as a weather app on his computer. German politicians say he was passing information to the U.S. about the parliament's investigation into Edward Snowden's revelations that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on Berlin, including Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.


ESCALATION
Rockets Lead Israel to Prep Ground Ops
Netanyahu calls up reserves.
SNUBBED
Rick Perry Rejects Obama Handshake
Offers meeting instead.
PURSE STRINGS
Kerry Threatens to Cut Afghan Aid
Unless election results are respected.
HE'S BACK
Rowling Pens New Harry Potter Story
Short anti-tabloid tale.
WASTE NOT
Louisiana Spent $1M on Food for the Dead
Food-stamp glitch.

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