Quickhits

(WaPo) There's alot of insider mumbling that National Security Adviser Jim Jones is under pressure over his job. I've seen the complaints, but this is the first piece that really seems to source the discontent, State Department, but not Hillary Clinton.

(NYTimes) A "warning story" on Sunnis and Kurds in Ninevah.

(TPM) Liz Cheney, now her father's main defender, won't put down the rumors that Cheney ordered "enhanced interrogation" to try and prove the fictional Iraq-Al Qaeda link. (Also, notice the sizable gaps in the denial efforts below the video.)

(VanityFair) A report that the US refused the first offer by the Sunni militias to go on the payroll in 2004. Right after that, the Sunnis went heavily violent starting that year and a half of blood.

(NYTimes) Senate Republicans try to warn their supporters that they can't stop an Obama Supreme Court pick.

And, no link, but there is sure alot of buildup from all sides over the Netanyahu visit.