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9:05 PM ET, May 6, 2013

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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can't go” to Benghazi during attacks  —  The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden …
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Fox News:
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say  —  On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Behind the Scenes at Fox  —  A few days before the presidential election last November, Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, ordered that Geraldo Rivera's microphone be cut off after Mr. Rivera angrily defended the Obama administration against charges levied by others on Fox.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
They've Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya: U.S. military assets were told to stand down
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Chaffetz: We were ‘misled every step of the way’ on Benghazi
Discussion: Hit & Run and Fox News
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid calls Sen. Cruz a ‘schoolyard bully’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “schoolyard bully” during a contentious exchange Monday on the Senate floor.  —  The two senators bickered as Cruz rose to object to Reid's motion …
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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Heritage Foundation:
The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer  —  By Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D.  —  Executive Summary  —  Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
None Dare Call It Treason  —  As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association's new president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e. …
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Sara Fischer / CNN:
NRA has record conference turnout, new president
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Syria Is Not Iraq  —  IN the search for an American response to the civil war in Syria, the favorite guidebook seems to be our ill-fated adventure in Iraq.  We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority.  We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing for foreign patronage.
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Arlington, Va.:
Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery  —  The Chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the U.S. Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington over the weekend.  —  Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski is accused of fondling a woman in a Crystal City parking lot early Sunday morning.
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama from office  —  Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won't finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Rick Perry compares rejecting LGBT people to fighting slavery  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Sunday that he believes rejecting LGBT people is similar to fighting slavery during the pre-Civil War era.  —  Appearing on the Family Research Council's program “Stand With Scouts Sunday,” …
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Learns: 'Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh's Show'  —  As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show.  The company's CEO has blamed ad revenue losses …
Bloomberg:
Gore Is Romney-Rich With $200 Million After Bush Defeat  —  In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows.  —  The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets …
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Marching On DC With Loaded Rifles: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?  —  Adam Kokesh is a strange bird.  He's a veteran of the Iraq war and a hard-core libertarian who claims to support the tea party and Occupy Wall Street.  —  I'm going out on a limb here and saying he actually tends to lean more anarchist than anything else.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Non-Violent March To Threaten Violence
Discussion: Business Insider and Hullabaloo
Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:
Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left  —  The abortion clinic of alleged killer Kermit Gosnell was not illegal.  But any talk of more government regulation unleashes an NRA-style assault from the abortion rights contingent, says Kirsten Powers.  —  What should we learn from the Kermit Gosnell trial?
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Twitter is ready to be a true news operation  —  Twitter is hiring a ‘head of news’ in its bid to be even more indispensable to global media, but will it work?  —  There are fewer and fewer jobs in journalism, but last week an ultimate job was posted.  Twitter, fast becoming the basic source …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun  —  “Alright.  One...two...”  —  Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape.  A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. Mike Rogers pushed for FBI chief  —  The FBI's union is urging President Obama to nominate Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to be the bureau's next director.  —  The FBI Agents Association said Rogers — a former FBI agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
Why did Komen for the Cure give Nancy Brinker a 64 percent raise?  —  Komen, already under fire for shrinking contributions for breast cancer research, paid its CEO $684,000 last year  —  Last year may have been a very bad year for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but it still was a very good year for its CEO, Nancy Brinker.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up  —  Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is “leading to disaster”.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data  —  LOS ANGELES — Forget zombies.  The data crunchers are invading Hollywood.  —  The same kind of numbers analysis that has reshaped areas like politics and online marketing is increasingly being used by the entertainment industry.
Discussion: The Verge
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Justin Bieber Breaks Istanbul Concert For Muslim Call To Prayer  —  Justin Bieber has had what might be politely termed an awkward spring so far, whether he was joking about whether Anne Frank would have been a fan of his—an idea brilliantly satirized in the New Yorker by Yoni Brenner …
Discussion: New Yorker and Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Chambliss sinks hole-in-one during golf round with Obama
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Terri Judd / The Independent:
Inside Guantánamo: An unprecedented rebellion leaves a notorious detention centre in crisis
Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
Al Qaeda Headquarters in Libya
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Via Meadia
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Immigration reform pits Rubio against mentor DeMint
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS and ThinkProgress
Associated Press:
Germany Arrests 93-Year-Old Alleged Former Auschwitz Guard
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Bush 4.0: George P. making rounds in D.C.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Vendor That Pulled ‘Obama’ Target At NRA Convention Also Sells ‘The Ex’ Target
Discussion: Feministing
Boston Herald:
Frustrated embalmer wants Deval Patrick to intervene
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
CBS News:
Stories behind Robin Hood's 12-12-12 concert
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
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How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment
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