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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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Diplomat: Request for Special Ops team in Benghazi denied — The veteran diplomat who oversaw the response to the deadly attacks on U.S. installations in eastern Libya last year offered a riveting account on Wednesday of that frantic night, as House Republicans sought to use his testimony …
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Betsy's Page, PJ Media, Yahoo! News, Mother Jones, Rush Limbaugh, New York Times, Washington Wire and National Review
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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Atlas Shrugs, Mediaite, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Benghazi “whistleblowers” head to House committee — Hoping to funnel into one chronological timeline the rampantly varying accounts of how President Obama's administration responded last Sept. 11 in the wake of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight Committee …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: “Effectively demoted”
Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: “Effectively demoted”
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Politico, CNN, American Power, The Daily Caller and JustOneMinute
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi whistleblower: 'I've been demoted' for challenging Susan Rice's claims
Benghazi whistleblower: 'I've been demoted' for challenging Susan Rice's claims
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Witness Says State Dept. Told Him Not To Meet With Congressional Investigators
Benghazi Witness Says State Dept. Told Him Not To Meet With Congressional Investigators
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Washington Free Beacon, Mother Jones, Politico, Weasel Zippers and Wake up America
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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Aisha Harris / Slate:
The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor
The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor
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Race, ThinkProgress, New Republic, The Week, Capital New York, THEROOT.COM, Gawker and Colorlines
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 …
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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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Rick Weiland / Argus Leader:
Rick Weiland's Senate run draws support from Daschle, others — South Dakota Democrats got a candidate for Senate on Wednesday - and it wasn't who people expected. — Rick Weiland, a former Tom Daschle aide who ran for Congress in 1996 and 2002, told the Argus Leader that he will try …
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Ballot Box and The Fix
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.
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Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN:
Jury finds Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder
Jury finds Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder
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The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wake up America and Taylor Marsh
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.
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Rym Momtaz / ABCNEWS:
New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones — President Barack Obama appears with a bull's-eye on his head in a new English-language magazine published online apparently by Islamist militants, who also urge Muslims around the world to try to hack and manipulate American drones. — “Wanted Dead Only.
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Joshua Miller / Boston Globe:
National Democrats hit Gomez for role with group critical of Obama — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today knocked Republican Senate hopeful Gabriel E. Gomez for saying he was “never associated” with a group on whose behalf he appeared on national television.
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CNN, Ballot Box and The Reaction
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
TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.
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Talking Points Memo:
Co-Author Of Heritage Immigration Study Wanted To Bar Immigrants Based On IQ — From Wonkblog's Dylan Matthews:
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama, House Democrats talk jobs, deficit reduction — President Obama dined with House Democratic leaders Wednesday night in Washington, the latest leg of his congressional outreach campaign amid a series of high-stakes debates on Capitol Hill. — Gathered at the posh Jefferson Hotel in Northwest D.C. …
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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 …
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Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Republicans to huddle Wednesday to mull options on EPA nominee vote
Republicans to huddle Wednesday to mull options on EPA nominee vote
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