A.M. Links: Rep. Radel Taking Leave From Office After Pleading Guilty to Cocaine Possession, Drone Strike Kills Senior Member of Taliban-Linked Group in Pakistan, Woodward Wishes Snowden Has Come to Him

• Rep.
  Trey Radel (R-Fla.) is taking a leave of absence after
  pleading guilty to possession of cocaine. He has been sentenced to
  one year supervised probation.
• The U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed to a
  post-2014 partnership. The deal will have to be approved by the
  Afghan parliament, and President Hamid Karzai says he won’t sign
  the agreement without the approval of tribal leaders.
• 
  Bob Woodward has said he wished NSA whistleblower Edward
  Snowden had come to him insteading of other journalists.
• A suspected
  U.S. drone strike on a seminary in Pakistan has killed Maulvi
  Ahmad Jan, a senior member of the Islamist Haqqani network.
• An 85-year-old American Korean War veteran
  has been detained in North Korea while visiting the country as
  a tourist.
• The fed will require that tour buses and buses that travel
  between cities built from 2016 onwards be
  equipped with seatbelts.

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