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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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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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Weekly Standard, Fox News, Mediaite, Hot Air and The Caucus
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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Business Insider and Mediaite
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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Susan Page / USA Today:
Sen. Graham: Hillary Clinton should testify on Benghazi
Sen. Graham: Hillary Clinton should testify on Benghazi
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The Huffington Post, Capital Tonight, Jammie Wearing Fools and Associated Press
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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Power Line, Weekly Standard and Washington Post
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: Boehner ‘complicit’ if Benghazi panel blocked
GOP lawmaker: Boehner ‘complicit’ if Benghazi panel blocked
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The Fix and The Plum Line
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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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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msnbc.com, Taylor Marsh, Post Politics, Scared Monkeys, Althouse, The Reaction, American Spectator, Hot Air, The Week, Mother Jones, Politico and The Plum Line
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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Weasel Zippers and Booman Tribune
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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The Huffington Post, The Week and Online NewsHour
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Matt Welch / Reason:
Benghazi Hall of Shame — Remembering the officials and commentators who inaccurately blamed a murderous attack at least in part on an obscure YouTube trailer. — Yesterday's dramatic congressional testimony about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. interests in Benghazi …
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Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze.com and Hit & Run
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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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Outside the Beltway, Guardian and CANNONFIRE
Politico:
Gang of Eight throws GOP a bone — The Senate Gang of Eight made a series of overt attempts Thursday to win over Republicans on immigration reform, using the first day of Judiciary Committee debate to tighten border security measures on the bill. — None of the amendments impose drastic changes on the legislation.
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Carrie Dann / First Read:
On Day One of immigration panel debate, border security in focus
On Day One of immigration panel debate, border security in focus
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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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Liberal Values, The Mahablog and Booman Tribune
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner On Obamacare, Debt Limit Strategies: Take It Up With My Members!
Boehner On Obamacare, Debt Limit Strategies: Take It Up With My Members!
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The Impolitic
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.
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.
Boston Herald:
11 school staffers found with rap sheets — Background checks ongoing — By: — Boston Public Schools officials have no idea how many of their 9,000-plus employees may have criminal records — a shocking revelation that has triggered a sweeping round of background checks that already …
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Riehl World News
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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First Read and The Hinterland Gazette
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