Cheat Sheet - The Last American Soldier Executed for Desertion

Read This, Skip That .... June 06, 2014 TOUGH CALL 1. The Last American Soldier Executed for Desertion Even if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was to be found guilty of desertion, no one imagines he would be executed. The last soldier to be put to death for that crime was Pvt. Eddie Slovik, whom World War II veteran Nick Gozik says was the bravest GI he encountered. On the anniversary of D-Day, Michael Daly reports on the only one of more than 20,000 convicted deserters during the war to suffer the ultimate penalty. Read it at The Daily Beast BRAVERY 2. Seattle University Shooter Was Pepper-Sprayed by Student One student was killed and two others wounded Thursday afternoon at Seattle Pacific University when a young male opened fire. One student tackled the suspect, 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra who was reloading his shotgun after killing one student and wounding two others inside a campus hall. That student, Jon Meis, was working as a building monitor and apparently pepper-sprayed the shooter as he stopped to reload, then put him in a chokehold and tackled him to the ground. The campus went on lockdown after the shooting as it was not immediately clear there was only one shooter. The suspect was carrying extra shotgun shells as well as a knife. "He was hellbent on a killing a lot of people today," one officer said. Read it at Seattle Times REMEMBER 3. Obama: Normandy 'Democracy's Beachhead' Speaking Friday in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day, President Obama declared that the U.S. claim to liberty is "written in the blood on these beaches." The president also drew a connection between those who served in World War II and the 9/11 generation of servicemembers, saying that their efforts "proved once again that the United States of America is and will remain the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known." World leaders including Francois Hollande, Queen Elizabeth II, Vladimir Putin, and Angela Merkel gathered for the anniversary.  Read it at The Washington Post NEVER-ENDING 4. Stop Me Before I Buy a Gun Again John Hokanson Jr. is a 33-year-old bipolar man who's been involuntarily committed several times. Yet, no red flags were raised when he purchased a surplus Army rifle from a sporting goods store in Phoenix. As America reels from two more college shootings, Eleanor Clift reports on the loopholes in America's background-check system that would do nothing to stop Hokanson or someone like him were to try again. Read it at The Daily Beast WHEW 5. Snowden Took Less Than Feared On the one-year anniversary of the first story published from Edward Snowden's NSA leak, America's top spy says the heist is not as bad as first believed. "We're still investigating, but we think that a lot of what he looked at, he couldn't pull down," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Washington Post's David Ignatius. "Some things we thought he got he apparently didn't." While the veracity of Clapper's claims are hard to verify, they do contradict initial beliefs that Snowden possibly compromised the military's communications networks. The issue at hand is what is known as the "third tier" of documents Snowden is believed to have taken. The first tier of 300 have leaked; the second tier is 200,000 documents believed to have been given to the press; the third tier is thought to be 1.4 million Snowden took but whose whereabouts are unknown. Read it at Washington Post HARD CHOICES Hillary Memoir Addresses Bergdahl Trade Among other topics, including Benghazi. MISCONDUCT 18 Veterans on Phoenix VA Wait List Died 14 of them had asked for end-of-life care. ABOUT TIME Ireland to Investigate Mass Grave Look into similar Catholic institutions. TOUGH LADY Woman Survives Honor Killing Shot, thrown in canal. AWKWARD Lebron James Can't Take the Heat A/C failed. 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. The Invasion That Saved Europe by James A. Warren Crying With the 'Fault in Our Stars' Hunk by Kevin Fallon Congo's Badass Women Mechanics by Nina Strochlic

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