Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: Inside The Drone Debate

Today: London Hacking Suspects Were Suspicious , Exclusive: U.S. To Bring Chemical Weapons Witnesses Out Of Syria , Japan Stock Market Tanks May 23, 2013 Exclusive 1. Obama: I Make the Decisions The military made an aggressive push to wrest control over drone targeting decisions away from the president. In the end, it lost. The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman talks to two top administration sources about Obama's speech on counterterrorism this afternoon—and why he'll continue to call the shots. Read it at The Daily Beast GRUESOME 2. London Hacking Suspects Were Suspicious The two men accused of beheading British soldier Lee Rigby were previously the target of an investigation in London, a British official said Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said no further details about the prior questioning can be released—offering only that it was an investigation into their "possible terror links." The suspects were shot and captured Wednesday by police after allegedly decapitating a defenseless soldier. Shortly before police arrived, an eerie cell-phone video recording shows the two bloodied men bragging about the killing, while holding knives and a meat cleaver. As the investigation continued Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron denounced the "betrayal of Islam."   Read it at CBS SYRIA 3. Smuggling the Witnesses With U.N. investigators unable to enter Syria, the State Department is working to bring evidence that the regime has used chemical weapons across the border into Turkey. The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin has the exclusive report. Read it at The Daily Beast BANZAI? 4. Japan Stock Market Tanks It was only a matter of time. Japan's stock market, which has soared nearly 50 percent in the past half year, took a hard fall on Thursday. Japan's central bank has been engaged in an aggressive push to jump-start growth by flooding the economy with cheap money and devaluing the yen. That has worked wonders for the markets. But investors, processing a rise in interest rates and weakness from China (an important trading partner), sold stocks with abandon. The Nikkei 225 index fell 7.3 percent on the trading session. Read it at CNBC HOT DAMN 5. Ron Paul Used To Be Sexy There's nothing like a man in uniform—Ron Paul, specifically, in uniform circa 1963 on a red bike with his towhead son Rand Paul. The former GOP presidential candidate looks like he's living the American dream in a grassy, cookie-cutter suburban town in what is likely Texas, or perhaps a suburb of Pittsburgh, where the Pauls lived before they moved to the Lone Star State. He also sort of resembles Don Draper, posing in a photograph that makes him seem like the perfect father even though he's never changed a diaper in his life. Then again, we could be reading way too much into this, but it's Thursday and we're in love with vintage Ron Paul. Read it at Gawker YUCK British BBQ Dirtier Than Toilet Contains twice as many germs as the loo, study says. NEVER BEFORE SEEN Obama's '79 Prom Photos Revealed Wrote that his classmate Kelli was "foxy." SO, HE AGED WELL Eighty-Year-Old Man Scales Everest Yuichiro Miura now the oldest to reach the summit. ENOUGH ALREADY West Point Cadets Secretly Filmed Sergeant accused of targeting females in bathroom, showers. Hey Girl Ryan Gosling's Film Booed at Cannes "Only God Forgives" panned. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. British Mom Confronted London Attackers In an interview with ITV, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett of Cornwall says that she was not scared for herself when she approached the two men responsible for the brutal killing of a British soldier in London. 'There were more and more mother's with children stopping around,' she says. 'Better me than a child'. More Videos Can Al Jazeera Save American News? by Christopher Dickey The Boy Scouts' Gay Vote by Winston Ross The 'Lost' Stars: Where They Are Now by Anna Klassen , Jean Trinh

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