By Alex Rogers
- “Obama may rightfully doubt that maintaining tens of thousands of U.S. forces can remake Afghanistan into a tidy success story. But neither does he want to preside over a slide back into a 1990s-style civil war.” [TIME]
- “The White House has launched an internal investigation into this weekend’s accidental disclosure of the identity of the Central Intelligence Agency’s top spy in Afghanistan.” [TIME]
- “Tortured by symptoms of PTSD, turned away by an overbooked Veterans Administration hospital—his mother says she pleaded with doctors to let him sleep on the hospital floor—[Army Specialist Isaac] Sims was shot by Kansas City police on Sunday after they answered a neighbor’s 911 call.” [TIME]
- “Jorge Ramos, the most popular Hispanic news anchor in America, arrived in Washington recently on an unusual journalistic mission: He wanted to challenge Speaker John Boehner about why he’s ‘blocking’ immigration reform.” [Politico]
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