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10:55 PM ET, May 8, 2013

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Fox News:
Whistle-blower: Botched talking points hurt FBI probe of Benghazi attack  —  A key Benghazi whistle-blower, responding to Democratic claims that the prolonged scrutiny over the administration's botched talking points is unwarranted, testified Wednesday that the early mischaracterization …
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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Benghazi: Incompetence, But No Cover-up  —  The hearings deepen the tragedy, but not the scandal.  —  There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation.  It is a record that may well come …
New York Times:
Official Offers Account From Libya of Benghazi Attack  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department official presented a minute-by-minute account on Wednesday of what happened during the seige of the diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11, offering the first public testimony from an American official …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Witness Says State Dept. Told Him Not To Meet With Congressional Investigators  —  Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New Benghazi probe evidence puts spotlight back on Clinton  —  New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed.
TIME:
Benghazi Again  —  The Republicans, apparently with nothing better to do, are still chasing their tails over the tragic events in Benghazi on September 11.  —  Actually, no. That's not true.  They're chasing their tails over what happened after the tragic events of September 11.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi whistleblower: 'I've been demoted' for challenging Susan Rice's claims
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Cleveland Hero Was A Repeat Domestic Abuser  —  Charles Ramsey battered his wife, did prison time for three attacks  —  The Cleveland man credited with helping free female captives from a house of horrors is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes three separate domestic violence convictions …
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Talking Points Memo:
Top Republican ‘Fairly Satisfied’ With White House's Account Of Benghazi  —  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) said Wednesday that he's “fairly satisfied” with the Obama administration's account of events that led to the deaths of American diplomats in Benghazi last year.
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
GOP chairman denied Benghazi files
Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
Heritage study co-author opposed letting in immigrants with low IQs  —  Robert Rector (center), one of the study's co-authors.  (Heritage)  —  The Heritage Foundation made something of a splash with its study suggesting that immigration reform will cost the public trillions.
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Mike Gonzalez / The Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Statement on the Cost of Amnesty Study
Discussion: First Read
Harriet Sherwood / Guardian:
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel  —  Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians  —  Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres …
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
A classic Cheney modifier  —  Dick Cheney won't let a little thing like the absence of credibility stand in the way of cheap shots, as he hopes to exploit the deaths of Americans abroad for partisan gain. … Actually, “North Africa” is a pretty big place, as Cheney may recall.
Discussion: Applesauce
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Daily Mail:
Dick Cheney slams Obama administration's Benghazi performance as 'a failure of leadership …
Brian Skoloff / Associated Press:
Jury Reaches Verdict in Jodi Arias Trial in Ariz.  —  Jurors reached a verdict Wednesday in the trial of Jodi Arias after deliberating about 15 hours over four days on whether the former waitress should be convicted of murder in the 2008 fatal stabbing and shooting of her one-time boyfriend.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Scared Monkeys
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Hunter / Daily Kos:
We are governed by outright morons: … You gigantic dumbass.  Sorry; there's just no other way to put it.  The entire purpose of “sequestration” was to be cuts enforced without choice.  The mechanism was meant to be so abominable that not even the human clusterf—ks that are our current Congress …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Eschaton
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama Maintains Approval Advantage, but GOP Runs Even on Key Issues  —  Two-Thirds Say Obama ‘Fights Hard’ for His Policies  —  OVERVIEW  —  President Obama continues to hold a substantial advantage over congressional Republicans in public regard.  Obama's job approval is back in positive territory …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Social Security report: Immigration bill would boost economy  —  The Senate Gang of Eight's immigration legislation is likely to be a net boon to the economy and Social Security, a new government report shows.  —  The Social Security Administration finds that by 2024, the immigration bill …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:   Analysis: Immigration bill would add millions of US taxpayers
Ramsey Cox / E2-Wire:
Senate rejects gun amendment to water infrastructure bill  —  The first GOP amendment voted on for the Senate's water infrastructure bill was about gun rights.  —  The Senate is considering the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which would authorize projects related to flood and storm risk reduction …
Discussion: Politico
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Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Republicans to huddle Wednesday to mull options on EPA nominee vote
Discussion: Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sanford and the Electoral Effect of Sex Scandals  —  Tuesday night's special election in South Carolina's First Congressional District was won by the Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose political career was imperiled in 2009 after he disclosed an extramarital affair.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The Post's Sharyl Attkisson piece  —  The Washington Post's Paul Farhi has written a glowing profile of Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy award-winning CBS correspondent who has been the mainstream media's most persistent investigator of the events surrounding last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Dagestani Relative of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is a Prominent Islamist  —  Last year, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in the Russian region of Dagestan, he had a guide with an unusually deep knowledge of the local Islamist community: a distant cousin named Magomed Kartashov.
Nathan Freed Wessler / ACLU:
FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant  —  New documents from the FBI and U.S. Attorneys' offices paint a troubling picture of the government's email surveillance practices.  Not only does the FBI claim it can read emails and other electronic communications without a warrant …
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Conservatives Plan Anti-MSNBC Protest at Comcast Shareholders Meeting  —  A tea-party group has invited 60,000 activists in Philadelphia to express their displeasure with the left-leaning network directly to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts when he meets investors there next week.
Discussion: Mediaite and Inside Cable News
 
 
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Joshua Miller / Boston Globe:
National Democrats hit Gomez for role with group critical of Obama
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Rym Momtaz / ABCNEWS:
New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones
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Washington Post:
Carbon tax is best option Congress has
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
Soldier Says She Was Harassed Because of Muslim-sounding Name
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Body Count Soars as Nigerian Military Hunts Islamists
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Sen. Warren calls for giving student borrowers the same loan rate as banks
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