memeorandum: Bill Clinton wants more credit (James Hohmann/The Politico)

1:40 PM ET, October 1, 2011

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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:

White House sends Hill Fast & Furious docs, but withholds some — The White House sent another installment of documents to Congress on Friday detailing White House staffers' knowledge about the controversial “Operation Fast & Furious” gunrunning probe run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:

New Fast and Furious docs released by White House — WASHINGTON - Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal. — The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent …

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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Bernie Marcus on Obama White House: ‘Amateurs Surrounded by Amateurs’

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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:

Obama to Congress: Get your act together and pass jobs bill — President Obama used his weekly radio address to urge Congress “to get its act together” and pass his jobs bill. — “It's been almost three weeks since I sent the American Jobs Act to Congress - three weeks since I sent …

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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:

Barack Obama wants jobs bill back — President Barack Obama sent his $447 billion jobs bill to Congress nearly three weeks ago and, he said Saturday, he wants it back. — “This jobs bill is fully paid for. This jobs bill contains the kinds of proposals that Democrats and Republicans …

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The Politico:

Bill Clinton wants more credit — Among friends and longtime supporters, the 65-year-old looked at ease and spoke lovingly about the aides and Arkansans who helped him get to the White House two decades ago. — “We were looking at total meltdown about a week before New Hampshire,” …

James Hohmann / The Politico:

Bill Clinton wants more credit — Bill Clinton thinks he deserves more credit for reforming welfare and balancing the budget. — “I go crazy every time I read the conventional wisdom,” he said Friday night at his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. “So part of the Republican narrative …

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NY Daily News:

Occupy Wall Street protest, swelled by Radiohead hoax, marches on NYPD HQ, but gets lost — Radiohead didn't rock out with the Occupy Wall Street mass yesterday, but the crowds sure did as the protest marched into its third weekend - but had a little trouble finding NYPD headquarters.

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Peter Finn / Washington Post:

Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi — The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials.

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Donna Leinwand Leger / ABCNEWS:
Target killing of al-Awlaki raises legal questions

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Dan Merica / CNN:

Iranian pastor faces death for rape, not apostasy - report — Washington (CNN) — Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will be put to death for several charges of rape and extortion, charges that differ greatly from his original sentence of apostasy, Iran's semi-official Fars News agency reported Friday.

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WCVB-TV:

24 Arrested As Protesters Pack Financial District — Foreclosed Families, Supporters March To Bank Of America — BOSTON — A group called Occupy Boston took over Dewey Square in Boston Friday night holding a 60s-style sit in. — “It doesn't look like the politicians are serving the people any more …

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Justin Gillis / New York Times:

Temperature Rising: With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors — WISE RIVER, Mont. — The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn. — But these trees are not supposed to turn red.

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Byron York / Campaign 2012:

‘Soft’ America: What Obama really meant — There's been a lot of speculation about what President Obama meant when he told an Orlando television interviewer that the United States is “a great, great country that had gotten a little soft” over the last two decades.

Joan Biskupic / USA Today:

Supreme Court term could influence 2012 election — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opens a potentially epic term Monday that could roil debate in the 2012 presidential election campaign. — The justices have taken a raft of cases that would affect people in their daily lives …