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Monday, September 2, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Daily Beast Picks: Best of the Summer

Today: DEA Has Massive Phone Data Trove , U.S. Open's Delicious Week One: Serena and Sloane, Rafa and Roger, and More , Lawmakers Skeptical of Syria Strike
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 02, 2013
Beast Picks
The dog days are over. In case you missed some of the highlights of what this summer had to offer, The Daily Beast rounded up our picks for the best song, movie, scandal, and more in our end-of-summer wrap up. Ready or not, here comes fall.
Surveillance

The NSA isn't the only government agency keeping reams of phone data. The Drug Enforcement Agency's Hemisphere Project, revealed in documents obtained by a peace activist, keeps data on every call that goes through an AT&T switch, going back as far as 1987—farther than the NSA's records, and unlike the NSA's data, including location information. AT&T works closely with the DEA on the program, with telephone company employees paid by the government to sit alongside drug agents and supply them with data. The Justice Department says the records are maintained by the phone company and Hemisphere merely streamlines the process of getting access to them, but the ACLU says the integration of government agents into the data-gathering process raises Fourth Amendment concerns.

GAME, SET, MATCH

Serena won a much-anticipated wrapup with rising star Sloane Stephens, while Federer and Nadal cruised toward a midweek showdown. Nicholas McCarvel breaks down the storylines from the first week of the US Open.

TOUGH SELL

President Obama will have to do his best to sell Congress on a Syria strike over the next week, with many lawmakers expressing skepticism after a classified briefing yesterday. Eighty-three lawmakers took a break from their holiday weekend to listen to the administration's case for military strikes, but afterward lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said military authorization would have to be far less open-ended than what Obama is proposing. Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham, meanwhile, said the proposal was too limited already and criticized Obama for asking Congress' approval in the first place. Congress is expected to start debating strikes in earnest once they're back from vacation on Sept. 9.

EGYPT

Ousted former president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was charged with committing and inciting violence and will stand trial, according to the state news agency. The criminal court charges "of committing acts of violence, and inciting the killing and thuggery" have been applied to Morsi as well as 14 other Muslim Brotherhood members.



FLORIDA
Three Miami Area Mayors Arrested
State leads country in convicted officials.
Whac-a-Mole
Japan's Nuclear Tanks Leaking Again
Prime Minister vows quick action.
TRAGIC
One-Year-Old Shot Dead in Brooklyn
Killer aiming for father.
EYE IN THE SKY
Stork Detained for Spying in Egypt
Tracking device for science, not espionage.
JUST KEEP SWIMMING
Nyad Nearing Finish of Cuba to Florida Swim.
Fourth attempt in three years.
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Kerry: We Won't Lose Syria Vote

Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on 'This Week' Sunday to discuss President Obama's request for a congressional vote on taking military action in Syria. 'The president knows that America is stronger when we act in unity,' Kerry told host George Stephanopolous. When pressed about Obama going ahead without approval, Kerry remained confident: 'We are not going to lose this vote.'



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