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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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Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
WATCH: Paula Broadwell's Awkward Interview With Don Imus in January — IMUS: Is he married? — BROADWELL: He is married to Holly Petraeus, who is a wonderful Military spouse and done so much for their children and for children of fallen soldiers, I respect her immensely.
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AP Member Choice Limited / Associated Press:
Petraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend — Leaders of congressional intelligence committees want to know more about the FBI investigation that led to David Petraeus resignation as CIA Director. — Ex-CIA director David Petraeus has told friends he was shocked to find that his biographer …
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Wired
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Majority Leader Eric Cantor Knew of Petraeus Affair in October
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Politico, The Daily Caller, DCist and Towleroad News #gay
New York Times:
Officials Say F.B.I. Knew of Petraeus Affair in the Summer
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NY Daily News:
Jill Kelley, social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed …
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Gawker, Business Insider, Daily Download, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Poynter and BuzzFeed
Bernard Finel / Balloon Juice:
The Real Sin in the Petraeus Case
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Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, She The People and Wired, more at Mediagazer »
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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Ballot Box, Arizona Republic, Weasel Zippers, Poliglot, BobCesca.com, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Advocate, msnbc.com and GLAAD
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Feministing
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
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CNN and Prairie Weather
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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Hullabaloo, Taylor Marsh, msnbc.com, Business Insider, The Incidental Economist and The Huffington Post
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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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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, The Agonist and Suburban Guerrilla
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Legacy at Stake, Obama Plans Broader Push for Budget Deal
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Firedoglake, First Read, CNN, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Washington Examiner, The Caucus and ABCNEWS
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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Byron Tau / Politico:
Secession petitions flood White House website — President Obama's reelection last week has prompted a slew of requests to secede from the United States. — Using the Obama administration's own We the People website, nearly two dozen petitions have sprung up asking the Obama administration for permission to withdraw from the Union.
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Outside the Beltway and The Hinterland Gazette
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
What's Going on With the Fiscal Cliff? — Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zuma; Anton Reznikov/Shutterstock — Where did this whole “fiscal cliff” metaphor come from, anyway? — It's the handiwork of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the same guy who warned us about a “global savings glut” in 2005.
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Rasmussen Reports:
As Fiscal Cliff Looms, Voters Want to Extend Tax Cuts Past 2012
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Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
Wick Allison / The American Conservative:
The Real GOP Fiasco: Fairness
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The Daily Beast, Politico and The Hill
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.
Philly.com:
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes — It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch.
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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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Valley Fever, Wonkette, FayObserver.com and Election 2012
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Deborah Montesano / Addicting Info:
Outrage Builds As Arizona Continues To Count Votes
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FiveThirtyEight, Balloon Juice, Blog Summaries, Weasel Zippers and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Politico, The Hill, Mediaite, msnbc.com, The Moderate Voice, Mock, Paper, Scissors and BobCesca.com
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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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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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American Power, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Power Line, Washington Monthly and Shakesville
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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The Moderate Voice, Addicting Info, Feministing and Truthdig
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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The Verge, The Agonist, The Other McCain, New York Magazine, Mashable! and The Raw Story
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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Paul Krugman
National Enquirer:
CHER & THE MARRIED TV NERD — Photography by: Getty Images Entertainment — CHER has fallen for a new guy half her age - 33-year-old, married MSNBC broadcaster CHRIS HAYES. — The “Believe” singer, 66, has been gushing to friends about her huge crush on the nerdy rising cable star …
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