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EXCLUSIVE: Petraeus mistress may have revealed classified information at Denver speech on real reason for Libya attack — Biographer Paula Broadwell could be facing questions about whether she revealed classified information about the Libya attack that she was privy to due to her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus.
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New York Times:
Officials Say F.B.I. Knew of Petraeus Affair in the Summer — WASHINGTON — High-level officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department were notified in the late summer that F.B.I. agents had uncovered what appeared to be an extramarital affair involving the director …
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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Scrutinized on Petraeus — Complaints by Female Social Planner Led to Email Trail That Undid CIA Chief — A social planner's complaints about email stalking launched the monthslong criminal inquiry that led to a woman romantically linked to former Gen. David Petraeus …
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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Majority Leader Eric Cantor Knew of Petraeus Affair in October
Majority Leader Eric Cantor Knew of Petraeus Affair in October
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AP Member Choice Limited / Associated Press:
Petraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend
Petraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend
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Bernard Finel / Balloon Juice:
The Real Sin in the Petraeus Case
The Real Sin in the Petraeus Case
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Associated Press:
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema beats GOP's Vernon Parker in Arizona's 9th Congressional District — PHOENIX — Former Democratic state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been elected to represent a new Phoenix-area congressional district, emerging victorious after a bitterly fought race that featured millions of dollars in attack ads.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
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Talking Points Memo:
Grover Norquist: Romney A ‘Poopy Head’ — Anti-tax crusader and head of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist told CBS on Monday that President Obama did not deserve a claim to an electoral mandate following his re-election because the candidate Republicans put forth to challenge him …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
What's Going on With the Fiscal Cliff?
What's Going on With the Fiscal Cliff?
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CBS News:
Grover Norquist: Obama's goal is to raise energy taxes on middle class
Grover Norquist: Obama's goal is to raise energy taxes on middle class
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Press Pass:
White House Grand Bargain offer to Speaker Boehner Obtained by Bob Woodward — Below are documents obtained by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that show a grand bargain proposal the White House was prepared to make in order to reach agreement with the House Republicans last year.
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Gaius Publius / AMERICAblog:
Leaked deal memo for last year's Grand Bargain: “Obama willing to go quite far” — Is it too early to bitch about the Grand Bargain Trainwreck Obama has planned for us? Hope not. — Here's the ultimate Beltway insider, Bob Woodward, on Meet The Press with David Gregory.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Legacy at Stake, Obama Plans Broader Push for Budget Deal
Washington Memo: Legacy at Stake, Obama Plans Broader Push for Budget Deal
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Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
‘We the People’ Petitions Filed in Nineteen States Seeking Permission to Secede from the Union — In the aftermath of last week's presidential election, residents in at least nineteen states have put up petitions on the government's “We the People” petitioning website seeking the right to secede from the rest of the country.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self defeating.
TMZ.com:
Elmo Voice Kevin Clash Denies Sex w/ Underage Boy — Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street — Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street — EXCLUSIVE — Kevin Clash — the man known as the voice of Elmo — has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations …
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Ryan J. Reilly / Talking Points Memo:
Arizona Still Counting Ballots Nearly A Week After Election — Hundreds of thousands of ballots have yet to be counted in Arizona nearly a week after Election Day, a majority of which appeared to come from Maricopa County. — Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett's said Saturday …
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Deborah Montesano / Addicting Info:
Outrage Builds As Arizona Continues To Count Votes
Outrage Builds As Arizona Continues To Count Votes
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
GOP's Red America forced to rethink what it knows about the country — HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled. Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt …
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Jeff Wise / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated) — Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force's Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The New Math — A number of TPM Readers have written in this morning saying, “Josh, how can you of all people be surprised that Republicans or at least Republican pollsters had created their own alternative numbers reality (or in Megan Kelly's now immortal words, “Math you do as a Republican …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Nearly 400,000 People Call On Macy's To Dump Donald Trump — A grassroots campaign for Macy's to end their association with Donald Trump has caught fire. Nearly 400,000 people have added their name to a petition on Signon.org for Macy's, which exclusively sells Trump's clothing line and fragrance …
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney Political Director: ‘The Ground Game Worked Fine’ — Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get-out-the-vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.