Cheat Sheet - The Man Who Runs Egypt

Today: Barbara Fredrickson's Bestselling 'Positivity' Is Trashed by a New Study , NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times , Bodies from Indian Submarine Found August 16, 2013 UNMAKSKED 1. The Man Who Runs Egypt Who is this strongman? In Newsweek, Mike Giglio and Christopher Dickey trace the origins of the U.S.-educated Gen. al-Sisi, including his family in the heart of Cairo's bazaar. Read it at The Daily Beast SCIENCE 2. The Happiness Wars Barbara Fredrickson's bestselling 'Positivity' tells us that there's a precise tipping point at which being chipper delivers health and success, a conclusion trashed by a new study. Will Wilkinson sorts out the controversy. Read it at The Daily Beast BUSTED 3. NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times According to an internal audit and documents provided to The Washington Post by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the NSA broke privacy rules or went beyond its authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the year Congress granted the agency broader powers. Unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign targets in the U.S. account for most of the infractions, which range from significant violations to typographical errors that led to unintended interceptions of phone calls or emails. And that's not all—the documents also describe agency personnel being instructed to scrub information from reports being handed to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In total, the audit, dated May 2012, counted 2,776 incidents of unauthorized interceptions, most of which were unintended. Read it at The Washington Post GRISLY 4. Bodies from Indian Submarine Found After 36 hours searching blindly through what was left of a submarine that had that exploded and sank in Mumbai on Wednesday, divers emerged with the bodies of three crew members, the remains so badly disfigured that DNA will have to be used to identify them. The state of both the vessel and the bodies led Indian Navy officals to the "firm conclusion that finding any surviving personnel within the submarine is unlikely." 18 crew members were aboard at the time of the blast, the cause which is unknown. The submarine was described as being "in great shape" by a researcher who visited a day before. Read it at The New York Times PLAYING FAVES 5. GOP to Punish CNN, NBC Republicans are not cool with plans by CNN and NBC to produce and run specials on 2016 Democratic possible Hillary Clinton. And they plan to voice their displeasure today with an RNC vote on a nonbinding resolution that would tighten the party's control over the debate process, including the networks and moderators allowed to participate in the events, specifically excluding the two networks. The not-yet-made films, the resolution claims, "are an attempt to show political favoritism and put a thumb on the scales for the next presidential election." It continues, "Airing this programming will jeopardize will the credibility of CNN and NBC as supposedly unbiased news networks and undermine the perceived objectivity of the coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign by these networks." The Republicans aren't the only group taking issue with the programs, journalists at the networks are also expressing reservations. Read it at Time First Look Manning Crossdress Photos Released WikiLeaker is wearing wig, makeup. ANDERSON KIDNAPPING Used Condoms, DNA Swab Kit Found In home of James DiMaggio. STUDY Heavy Coffee Drinking May Kill For younger adults. NO BAGGAGE WWE Wrestler Darren Young: I'm Gay First openly gay active WWE star. COMEBACK KID Chris Brown Hit-and-Run Dismissed Civil compromise reached. 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. Inside Skeptics' War on Magical Thinking by Michael Moynihan Kutcher's 'Jobs' Isn't That Bad by Rob Fishman Fact-Checking 'The Butler' by Kevin Fallon

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