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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference — When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Report: State officials involved in Benghazi talking points edits — The State Department contributed to heavily editing talking points surrounding the attacks that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya, leading to the removal of references to terror groups …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Benghazi is a Blow to Obama and Clinton — Both parties are wrong about the scandal: It's not Watergate and it's not nothing. — Both parties are wrong about Benghazi. Existing evidence does not point to a far-reaching cover-up on the scale of Watergate, as Republicans want you to believe.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Sen. Graham: Hillary Clinton should testify on Benghazi — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said former secretary of State Hillary Clinton should return to Capitol Hill - under subpoena if necessary - to answer new questions about the Benghazi attacks. — WASHINGTON - South Carolina …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Benghazi Debate Focuses on Interpretation of Early E-Mail on Attackers — WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday intensified their criticism of the Obama administration for its handling of the assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, with Speaker John A. Boehner calling for the release …
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Domani Spero / Diplopundit:
Raymond Maxwell: Former Deputy Asst Secretary Removed Over Benghazi Pens a Poem
Raymond Maxwell: Former Deputy Asst Secretary Removed Over Benghazi Pens a Poem
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: Boehner ‘complicit’ if Benghazi panel blocked
GOP lawmaker: Boehner ‘complicit’ if Benghazi panel blocked
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Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
At the Command of the State Department, Defense Distributed Pulls Its 3D Printed Gun Blueprints — Defense Distributed, the Texas-based nonprofit that wants to empower people to 3D print their own guns, has hit a bit of a legal snag. According to founder Cody Wilson, DEFCAD …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations — The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun. — On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office …
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: The RNC Benghazi Attack Ad that Never Ran — It was the Benghazi attack ad the Republican National Committee created but never aired. — ABC News has obtained an ad the RNC made last fall and approved to air in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
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Rolling Stone:
Joe Biden: The Rolling Stone Interview — The vice president on guns, global warming and why he's “the last guy in the room” on every decision Obama makes — There is a keen Kennedy-like vigor to Joe Biden that overwhelms any room. As was once said of Theodore Roosevelt, he, too …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden: Obama had ‘big grin’ following surprise statement backing gay marriage
Biden: Obama had ‘big grin’ following surprise statement backing gay marriage
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Benghazi patsy — Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. — You won't find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though …
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Ken White / Popehat:
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Can Be Whomever You Want Him To Be.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Can Be Whomever You Want Him To Be.
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Matt Welch / Reason:
Benghazi Hall of Shame
Benghazi Hall of Shame
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Politico:
Heritage Foundation does damage control — The Heritage Foundation has gone into damage-control mode in the last few days, after coming under fire from Republicans and conservative outside groups over a report it published that puts the price tag of immigration reform at $6.3 trillion.
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Joel Stein / TIME:
Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation — Correction Appended: May 9, 2013 — I am about to do what old people have done throughout history: call those younger than me lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow. But I have studies! I have statistics! I have quotes from respected academics!
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme — It was a brazen bank heist, but a 21st-century version in which the criminals never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault. — In two precision operations that involved people in more than two dozen countries acting …
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Jenna Portnoy / New Jersey Online:
Christie vetoes early voting bill, angering Democrats — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would allow early voting at polling places, prompting Democrats to brand it a politically motivated effort to suppress the vote months after Hurricane Sandy exposed vulnerabilities in the state elections system.
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BBC:
Dhaka building collapse: Woman pulled alive from rubble — A woman has been pulled alive from the ruins of a building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago. — The head of the fire service earlier said the woman, named Reshma, had been found in the remains …
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Riehl World News and Althouse
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota House approves gay marriage bill after two-hour debate — The measure now goes to the Senate, which will take up the issue Monday. — A pivotal vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Minnesota House Passes Marriage Equality Bill, 75-59
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Republican Leaders Refuse To Make Appointments To Key Obamacare Panel — The top two Republicans in Congress informed President Obama on Thursday that they will refuse to fulfill their duty under the Affordable Care Act to recommend members of a new board with the power to contain Medicare spending.
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Alexander Burns / Reuters:
Rand Paul the one-man band — When Rand Paul touches down in Iowa Friday, it will be almost exactly three years to the day after his landslide 2010 Senate primary victory - an unlikely and decisive triumph over the Republican establishment that instantly transformed Paul into a national political phenomenon.
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Washington Post:
Ways investors gain ‘political intelligence’ facing public scrutiny — With their boss playing a busy role in the push to overhaul the country's immigration laws, staffers for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) still have found time to talk with an unlikely interest group: Wall Street analysts.
Los Angeles Times:
Intelligence report identified vulnerability before Boston bombing — This post has been updated, as indicated below. — WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line of the race as an …
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