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CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks — This story has been updated from its original version. — CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi …
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Who doctored a White House email? — CNN appears to have undermined a scoop that damaged the White House — Was ABC News used by someone with an ax to grind against the State Department? It looks possible. A key email in its “scoop” that the administration's “talking points” …
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Yahoo! News, Goppers, The Raw Story, The Week and ABCNEWS


CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks — CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya. The actual email differs …
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Apparently Erroneous Reporting About Allegedly Erroneous Reporting — Jake Tapper, now of CNN but a bulldog for truth while at ABC News, is getting lots of love from the left for debunking a bit of the Benghazi talking points story. His gist - the summaries of the emails put forward …
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BREITBART.COM and Weekly Standard

Chaffetz: Obama impeachment ‘possible’ over Benghazi attack — • Rep. Jason Chaffetz says President Barack Obama's handling of the government's response to the Benghazi terrorist attack could be an impeachable offense and vows to continue digging at the “lies of highest magnitude” from the White House.
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More Details on Benghazi Talking Points Emerge
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Story on Benghazi leaks starts to unravel
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Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal — We're just at the front end of investigating the IRS scandal. And all the standard blah blah blah about how we don't know just what we'll find. But I think we do know pretty much exactly what the political implications will be. And they're significant.
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IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution — (Image Credit: Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images) — When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn't know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status.
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Inspector General: IRS' Ineffective Management Allowed Tea Party Targeting — WASHINGTON — The IRS used “inappropriate criteria” when judging organizations hoping to gain a tax-exempt status and allowed that criteria to stay in place for 18 months, according to a Treasury Inspector General …
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Crooks and Liars, Mother Jones, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air

PROGRESSIVE GROUP: IRS GAVE US CONSERVATIVE GROUPS' CONFIDENTIAL DOCS
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U.S. Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Failures in Management
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IG report: ‘Inappropriate criteria’ stalled IRS approvals of conservative groups
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Wonkblog, The Fix, The Volokh Conspiracy and Chicago Boyz

Holder Defends Justice Department in Journalists' Records Seizure — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of telephone records of Associated Press journalists, describing the article by The A.P. that prompted …
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Inside the AP: Fear, determination — Reporters across The Associated Press are outraged over the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of staff phone records and say they are fearful that such an intrusion could have a chilling effect on their relationships with confidential sources.
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Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records
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Carney: Obama believes the press ‘needs to be unfettered’
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Holder says AP probe handled by deputy after he recused himself
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Jay Carney On DOJ's AP Records Scandal: ‘Wholly Inappropriate’ To Comment
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BREAKING: Eric Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation
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Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023 — If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year …
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Race And IQ. Again. — [Re-posted from earlier today.] — I should know better than to bring this up again. But the effective firing of a researcher, Heritage's Jason Richwine, because of his Harvard dissertation should immediately send up red flags about intellectual freedom.
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Guardian, Democracy in America, Daily Kos, Brad DeLong, Dana Goldstein, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse


D.C. turns on Obama — The town is turning on President Obama - and this is very bad news for this White House. — Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama - and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now.
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Weasel Zippers, No More Mister Nice Blog and Conservatives4Palin


Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World — They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable. — Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members …
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Why Washington scandal-mania may save Medicare and Social Security — The Monica Lewinsky scandal may have helped save Social Security in the late 1990s. Now the scandal fever currently gripping Washington — IRS, Benghazi, Associated Press phone records — may save Social Security and Medicare two decades later.
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American Prospect and Hullabaloo


Franklin Graham: IRS targeted us, too — The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama. — Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family's international humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse …
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Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit


Convicted Pa. abortion doctor gets life in prison — PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence.
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Reid on Gosnell: We Need ‘Clean and Sterile’ Late-Term Abortion Clinics
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Anthony Weiner hires campaign manager — Anthony Weiner's new campaign manager for his nascent mayoral bid is a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee adviser who spent four months working on a failed Staten Island congressional race last year, two sources familiar with the hire told POLITICO.