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July 10, 2013 | | CONTROVERSIAL FACE Ambassador Anne Patterson, a career diplomat, is taking on what may be a higher—and more controversial—profile than she'd like in Cairo. The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report. READY FOR HILLARY Democrats might be behind already in Iowa for 2016, but Hillary Clinton is getting a major advantage. A consulting firm run by strategists behind President Obama's win in the battleground state in 2012 has been hired by the super PAC Ready for Hillary. The consulting firm, 270 Strategies, is run by Mitch Stewart, who was Obama's battleground-states director, and also employs Jeremy Bird, Obama's national field director. Ready for Hillary already has a number of Democratic bigwigs from the Clinton White House, including top supporters James Carville and Harold Ickes, former White House political director Craig T. Smith, and Clinton fundraisers Susie Tompkins Buell and Christopher G. Korge.
ASSESSMENT Asiana Airlines pilots said the Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday had an automatic system similar to a car's cruise control that did not maintain proper speed for landing. In an interview with the National Transportation Safety Board, the pilot said they set the auto throttle at 137 knots, a speed that is significantly faster than what Flight 214 came in at during its ill-fated landing. But one of the pilots also told the investigators that he knew the flight was coming in too low and tried to correct the path before the crash. Meanwhile, federal investigators said Tuesday that two flight attendants were ejected during the crash and survived. They were found on the tarmac.
OFFICIAL CHARGES Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing, will be arraigned in federal court Wednesday on a charge of using a weapon of mass destruction—which could carry the death penalty. Tsarnaev, 19, who was wounded in an April 19 shootout with police that killed his brother, Tamerlan, has not appeared in public since. The younger Tsarnaev allegedly escaped after the shootout in a hijacked car and hid in a boat. Prosecutors said Tsarnaev wrote about his motivations for the bombing on the inside walls and beams of the boat. The April 15 bombings killed three people and wounded more than 250.
WHITHER LIBERTY? They disrupted the 2012 Republican convention, shook up the primaries, and brought relevance to a long-shot candidate—but the Ron Paul army is far from convinced his senator son is heir to the liberty movement, writes The Daily Beast's David Freedlander. | | 
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