Cheat Sheet - I Pushed the Lance Armstrong Lie

Read This, Skip That .... July 31, 2014 OPEN LETTER 1. I Pushed the Lance Armstrong Lie After watching the documentary about Greg LeMond and French cyclist Bernard Hinault, Mark McKinnon—who served 10 years on the Lance Armstrong Foundation board—is apologizing to LeMond for helping to push the myth of Armstrong at the expense of LeMond's truly heroic tale as the only American to fairly win the Tour de France. Read it at The Daily Beast HORROR SHOW 2. Syrian Defector: Assad Poised to Torture and Murder 150,000 More Congress was shocked Thursday when a Syrian defector recounted how he documented Bashar al-Assad's killing of more than 11,000 innocents. That's just the beginning, according to "Caesar." Josh Rogin reports on the hearing and what one prosecutor called "crimes the likes of which we have not seen since Auschwitz." Read it at The Daily Beast OVER THE LINE 3. CIA: We Improperly Accessed Senate Files After repeated denials from the head of the CIA that his agents hacked into Senate computers, the spy agency's Inspector General's Office found that they did in fact do it. The report says CIA personnel improperly accessed Senate Intelligence Committee computers when they were being used to put together a report on the agency's detention and interrogation program. On Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan briefed and apologized to Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss. Read it at McClatchy NOTORIOUS R.B.G. 4. Ginsburg: Male Justices Had 'Blind Spot' in Hobby Lobby In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo's Katie Couric, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reaffirmed her criticism of the recent Hobby Lobby decision, saying "contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny." Ginsburg also said that she'd "never seen the free exercise of religion clause interpreted in such a way" and that "no employer… should be able to transfer that employer's religious belief onto people who do not share it." Couric also asked Ginsburg if the five male justices in the majority truly understood their decision, to which Ginsburg responded, "I would have to say, no." Ginsburg called their lack of understanding a "blind spot." Read it at Yahoo News ANNIHILATED 5. Los Alamos Nukes A-Bomb Dissident President Obama says he wants to get rid of the world's nuclear weapons, but when an employee at the nation's premier nuclear lab suggested the same thing, he got axed. Douglas Birch of the Center for Public Integrity reports. Read it at The Daily Beast DEVELOPING Chicago Worker Shot Boss After Demotion Before taking his own life. UH OH Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads Now in four Southeast Asian countries. SORRY BIG LABOR Wisc. High Court Upholds Anti-Union Law Ends most collective bargaining for public workers. HARD WORKER Seattle Cop Issued 80% of Pot Tickets Disproportionately to blacks. BEANTOWN BLUES Red Sox Trade Jon Lester To Athletics for Yoenis Cespedes. HUFFINGTON POST Corporations Have Found Yet Another (Secret) Way To Help Get Politicians Elected US WEEKLY Celebs Take Sides In the Bieber Vs. Bloom Feud ROLLING STONE The Unbreakable Katy Perry 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. Viral Video of the Day: Warren G. Regulates Warren G. Harding '90s rap star recites 29th president's newly released love letters to mistress. More Videos Lana Makes Me Wish I Were Straight by Samantha Allen Octavia Spencer: My Oscar Fixed Nothing by Marlow Stern Have We Reached 'Peak Burger'? by Brandon Presser

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