IT’S NOT YOU — IT’S HIM

Matt Damon Tells BET: Obama Dumped Me

By Elizabeth Coady

TRUST US, MATT DAMON, YOU’LL LOOK BACK ONE DAY AND BE GLAD THAT HE DUMPED YOU.

In an interview with BET, the Hollywood A-lister confessed that Obama has dumped him. “He broke up with me,” Damon told the publication. “we no longer see eye-to-eye,” he added.

But the star of Elysium, a sci-fi flick about a future dystopia where the rich rule, rightly rationalizes why that’s probably not such a bad thing.

WON’T BE ‘COMPLICIT’

Snowden’s Email Provider Lavabit Shutters Doors Citing Government Interference

By Elizabeth Coady

EDWARD SNOWDEN’S REPORTED EMAIL PROVIDER LAVABIT abruptly shut down today citing interference from the U.S. government.

In a letter posted to its homepage, the company’s owner Ladar Levinson wrote that he was “forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit.”

BUYING INFLUENCE?

Silicon Valley Elites Enrich Democratic Senate Candidate Cory Booker

By Elizabeth Coady

WITH JUST ONE ONE WEEK TO GO BEFORE NEW JERSEYANS CHOOSE NOMINEES FOR THE U.S. Senate race, the New York Times informed readers of a sweet million-dollar deal that Silicon Valley elites gifted to Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

Booker, a rising star in Democratic politics, has received an undisclosed amount of money from Google’s Eric Schmidt and other influential investors for his “video curating” service known as Waywire. From The New York Times:

DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES

Dead People Donated $600K To Political Candidates

By Elizabeth Coady

THEY MIGHT BE THE LAST SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP without a voice, but even the dead make political contributions.

USA Today reports that 32 “deceased” people have donated “more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates and political parties since Jan. 1, 2009.”

CNN EXCLUSIVE

CNN: “CIA Engaging in “Unprecedented Polygraphing” In Attempt To Silence Benghazi Operatives”

A SOURCE TELLS CNN ”You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation.”

‘I REALLY WANT TO SEE YOU’

Tabloid Claims It Has Sexy Audiotape Monica Lewinsky Made For Bill Clinton

BECAUSE NO NOTORIOUS SCANDAL EVER TRULY DIES, just in time for the 2016 presidential race, The National Enquirer resuscitates the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal.

The tabloid claims its editors have gotten their sticky hands on an audio recording of Monica Lewinsky using sexy talk on Bill Clinton. The former White House intern allegedly can be head offering to get naked for the notorious ladies’ man and concocting a movie date night with “boxed dinners.”

“You can’t refuse me because I’m too cute and adorable and soon I won’t be here anymore to pop over,” Lewinsky reportedly teased Clinton.

HI HO

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Edward Snowden Leaves Moscow Airport

By Elizabeth Coady

EDWARD SNOWDEN IS FREE TO WALK ABOUT THE COUNTRY.

WikiLeaks tweeted the information earlier today:

Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and has now left Moscow airport under the care of WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 1, 2013

Snowden has been awarded temporary asylum in Russia for one year.

“I just saw him to a taxi out of the airport,” Snowden’s attorney Anatoly Kucherena told the Los Angeles Times. “It is up to him to choose a residence inside Russia, but his location will remain secret for the duration of his stay.”

‘ACTIVELY MISLED’

New Spy Revelations Expand Evidence Of Officials Lying To Public

By Elizabeth Coady

THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY REVELATIONS JUST KEEP GETTING MORE AND MORE ALARMING.

With information provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald today revealed yet another top-secret government program enabling government contractors to access virtually every phone call, email, chat or social media exchange that Americans have on the Internet.

From The Guardian:

The files shed light on one of Snowden’s most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.

“I, sitting at my desk,” said Snowden, could “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email”.

US officials vehemently denied this specific claim. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said of Snowden’s assertion: “He’s lying. It’s impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do.”

Rogers’ denials, along with those of many other elected officials underscore just how much the NSA has either lied to its supposed overseers, or how those overseers are lying to the American public.

“We don’t monitor emails,” Chambliss said on ABC This Week last Sunday. “That’s what kind of assures me is that what the reporting is is not correct. Because no emails are monitored now. They used to be, but that stopped two or three years ago. So I feel confident that there may have been some abuse, but if it was it was pure accidental.”

SPY SCANDAL

Reuters

Snowden Won’t Face Death Penalty; His Father Blasts ‘Complicit’ Congressmembers

THE INTERNATIONAL CAT-AND-MOUSE CHASE FOR Edward Snowden continues, with the the U.S. claiming it won’t seek the death penalty against the whistleblower, while the former NSA analyst’s father blasted the government on the Today Show.

In a letter to Russia’s Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov, Eric Holder asserted that Snowden’s argument for asylum “are entirely without merit.”

COOKED

New York’s Having A Weiner Roast

By Elizabeth Coady

NEW YORK CITY IS THROWING ITSELF A SPECTACULAR SUMMER WEINER ROAST and a schleppy former Congressman is the dog getting cooked.

Anthony Weiner, a Democratic candidate for the New York City’s mayoral race, has been outed a second time for sexting pictures of his penis to women he met on the web. The 48-year-old is evidently proud of stuffed skin; why else would he keep showing it off?