PATRICK POOLE EXCLUSIVE: Former Egyptian Official Exposes Muslim Brotherhood’s Terror Networks (Part 2).

WHAT EXACTLY HAVE WE BEEN DOING THE LAST THREE YEARS? The War Against ISIS Has Just Begun.

ADRIANA COHEN: The media has lost its marbles.

Or maybe it’s that they’d had all of the marbles, and are as mad as hell that someone took a few of them away.

VIDEO: Dem Congressman Al Green Just Called for the Impeachment of Donald Trump.

MAKE ARMS SALES GREAT AGAIN: Germany asks U.S. for classified briefing on Lockheed’s F-35 fighter.

The letter, sent by the Air Force’s planning command and seen by Reuters, makes clear that the German government has not yet authorised a procurement programme and is not committed to any particular aircraft to replace its current warplanes.

It said the defence ministry would carry out “an in-depth evaluation of market available solutions, including the F-35, later this year,” with a formal “letter of request” to be issued in coming months.

Germany’s interest in the F-35 – the Pentagon’s most advanced warplane and its costliest procurement programme – may surprise some given that it is part of the four-nation consortium that developed the fourth-generation Eurofighter Typhoon, which continues to compete for new orders.

Despite the aircraft’s troubled history, foreign interest has been increasing.

GOOD MORNING: Liz Sheld has your morning brief posted.

ISN’T EVERYONE? UMich Student Says Minorities Are Oppressed by Wood Paneling.

IMPRESSIVE: This 18-year-old designed the world’s lightest satellite.

An 18-year-old from India built the world’s lightest satellite — and NASA’s going to send it into space.

Rifath Shaarook created a 4-centimeter (1½-inch), 3D-printed cube that weighs 2¼ ounces, making it lighter than an iPhone.

“We built it completely from scratch,” he told India’s Business Standard. “It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere of the Earth.”

Smaller, please!

I’M NOT SURE THIS COUNTS AS NEWS OR EVEN AS NEW: Keith Olbermann Had a Breakdown, Wants Trump to Resign.

CHANGE: President Trump Is Sticking With the Iran Nuclear Deal.

As I’ve written here before, the Iran Deal is probably the most difficult (if not impossible) “accomplishment” of the Obama Administration to unravel. The benefits to Iran were almost all front-loaded, so about the best that can be hoped for now is that Iran lives up to its obligation to do a better job of pretending to hide its nuclear weapons program.

GUESTS, LIKE FISH… Armenian Witness to Bloody Protest: Erdoğan Regime Violence ‘Has Now Been Exported Here’

MELISSA MCCARTHY HARDEST HIT: Fox News’s Kimberly Guilfoyle is openly gunning for Sean Spicer’s job.

ROBERT SPENCER: I Was Poisoned After Giving Anti-Jihad Speech in Iceland.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: We Are Ready to Find and Prosecute Leakers.

But is it change you can believe in?

More from Michael Walsh here.

SUSAN RICE: Don’t ‘Allow Twitter Wars to Become Shooting Wars’. “Former national security adviser says Trump ‘looks at the world and sees only threats: Immigrants. Refugees. Muslims. Mexicans.'”

This, from the woman who claimed that a YouTube video incited an attack on the American consulate at Benghazi?

VIDEO: Trey Gowdy Stops Just Short Of Calling Collusion On The Clintons And The DOJ.

From the clip:

“Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice but to make the decision he made in July,” Gowdy said.

McCallum asked if he was implying that Comey was pressured into clearing Clinton of all wrongdoing.

“No…he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, the integrity of the process, and I probably ought to just leave it right there,” Gowdy replied.

“Trust me when I tell you this, Martha — I know what it was and I have been a critic of James Comey in the past. But he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself.”

“I only take away from that that you are suggesting that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands,” McCallum guessed.

“You’re very perceptive,” Gowdy confirmed.

Comey did have other options, but perhaps no option more personally palatable. That aside, there is publicly-known evidence of collusion between the Clintons and the Obama DOJ, plus whatever Gowdy claims to know.

BAD THINGS: This is what would happen if North Korea launched a real attack.

CHANGE? ‘Performance enhancing drugs’ considered for Special Operations soldiers.

TYLER O’NEIL: 5 Things to Know About the Chelsea Manning Release.

UPDATE: Sen. Thom Tillis says he’s ‘doing well’ after collapsing during D.C. charity race.

CLAIM: U.S. Shale Is Immune To An Oil Price Crash In 2017.

Shale production has been gaining ‘significant momentum’, and there is a limited downside risk in the short run, Norway-based consultancy Rystad Energy said in a report last week.

Oil production in the Lower 48 excluding the Gulf of Mexico is expected to rise until the end of the year even if the price of oil plunges to US$40, Rystad’s analysis shows.

Since December 2016, oil output in the Lower 48 states, minus the Gulf of Mexico, has been on a continuous expansion, with 430,000 bpd growth so far. The growth from the average level in the fourth quarter of 2016 to May 2017 is around 340,000 bpd, Rystad said.

According to the EIA data, Lower 48 states’ field production of crude oil has been growing each week since early December, right after OPEC said it would curb supply to try to balance the market and lift the price of oil.

Despite the worries that cost inflation may slow down production growth, Rystad believes that completion activity is poised to surge for the rest of this year. At WTI price of US$50 per barrel, Lower 48 output is seen to be growing by an additional 390,000 bpd between May 2017 and December 2017, the consultancy noted.

It all sounds very nice, and frackers have done an impressive job of finding new efficiencies, but claims of immunity or “That can’t happen here” always set off my alarm bells.

Regardless of the fate of individual American suppliers however, “abundant supplies of oil and gas are now a fact of life.”

ENDGAME? Riot Police on Venezuela’s Front Lines Seek a Way Out.

When Ana, a five-year veteran of the national police, finishes her night shift patrolling this city’s dangerous slums, she often arrives home only to pick up her riot gear and head out again to confront rollicking protests against Venezuela’s embattled government.

On those front lines, she and her colleagues use tear gas and rubber bullets against increasingly desperate protesters armed with stones, Molotov cocktails and even bags of feces. The showdowns take place in scorching heat, and she says the authorities provide her with no food, water or overtime pay.

Ana, who along with others cited in this article asked that her last name not be used for fear of official retribution, is one of about 100,000 Venezuelan security officers, mostly in their 20s, shielding the government of increasingly unpopular President Nicolás Maduro from escalating unrest.

Contra to what I wrote this morning, perhaps the question is whether Venezuela’s security forces go full Ceaușescu — or go Galt.

ALLIES: With New ‘Dear Friend’ Trump, Erdoğan Decries Kurdish ‘Manipulation’ in Region. “Later, outside D.C. embassy, Turkish president’s security detail beat up Kurds.”

PROCUREMENT: New rifle, bigger bullets: Inside the Army’s plan to ditch the M4 and 5.56.

CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone returns to the company as other top staffers flee.

Stone posted his return to the social media company in a Medium post on Tuesday, writing that he’ll be “filling the ‘Biz-shaped hole'” he left there.

“My top focus will be to guide the company culture, that energy, that feeling,” Stone wrote, adding: “You might even say the job description includes being Biz Stone.”

Culture, energy, and feeling don’t seem to be what Twitter is lacking.