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Major Garrett / CBS News:
WH Benghazi emails have different quotes than earlier reported — (CBS News) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Thursday for tighter security for U.S. diplomatic facilities to prevent an attack like the one in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Attention to IRS, Benghazi Stories Below Average — Most Americans, however, say both deserve continuing investigation — PRINCETON, NJ — Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) …
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms
GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms
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Washington Times and Right Wing Watch
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Weiner's Wife Didn't Disclose Consulting Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.
Weiner's Wife Didn't Disclose Consulting Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Woodward: IRS scandal ‘a big mess’ but ‘not yet’ Watergate
Woodward: IRS scandal ‘a big mess’ but ‘not yet’ Watergate
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Politico and The Daily Caller
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Wow, This is Pretty Epic
Wow, This is Pretty Epic
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
It's Official: Those Bogus Email Leaks Came From Republicans
It's Official: Those Bogus Email Leaks Came From Republicans
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American Prospect, PoliticusUSA and All Things Democrat
Yahoo! News:
IRS asked anti-abortion group about content of public prayers — While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members' prayer meetings, documents sent by an IRS official to the organization reveal.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
There Was No Surge in IRS Tax-Exempt Applications in 2010 — Fewer groups sought recognition as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations that year than in 2009, according to the Treasury Department. — A number of people have sought to explain the IRS targeting of Tea Party, patriot …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Congressional Hearings on I.R.S. Scandal Begin
Congressional Hearings on I.R.S. Scandal Begin
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
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protein wisdom, The Other McCain and The Gateway Pundit
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Question that revealed IRS scandal was planted, chief admits
Question that revealed IRS scandal was planted, chief admits
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The Week and Riehl World News
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach” — The liberal pundit supports a worthless international initiative — So the other day Paul Krugman had a long, very good piece in the New York Review of Books on the arguments and flawed research used to justify austerity measures …
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Michael Kinsley / New Republic:
LGBT PC — Being against marriage equality doesn't make you a monster
LGBT PC — Being against marriage equality doesn't make you a monster
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Shakesville
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Officials on Benghazi: “We made mistakes, but without malice” — Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012 acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid eyeing July for the ‘nuclear option’ — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is increasingly focused on the month of July as the time to exercise the so-called “nuclear option” and revisit filibuster reform, and he has privately told top advisers that he's all but certain to take action …
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Elizabeth Warren Slams ‘Dangerous’ Legislation That Would Weaken Wall Street Reform — A week after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly approved a rollback of certain financial reforms contained in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren opposes derivatives bills with House traction
Toronto Star:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal — A video that appears to show Toronto's mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade. … This photo shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford with a man who, according to a source, is fatal gunshot victim Anthony Smith.
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Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Even Obama's umbrellas are a scandal now — Even President Obama's use of umbrellas has become a scandal in the eyes of some Republicans. — On Thursday, during a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, Obama signaled to two Marines and asked them to protect him and his guest from the rain.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, Poynter, Talking Points Memo and CNN
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Mike Piccione / The Daily Caller:
Obama breaches Marine umbrella protocol
Obama breaches Marine umbrella protocol
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Little Green Footballs, Washington Monthly and Weasel Zippers
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi auditor Thomas Pickering — The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn't interview Hillary Clinton. — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa …
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Politico, CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Stevens: Rationale for Bush v. Gore was “unacceptable” — The former Supreme Court justice speaks out on John Roberts and the case that decided the 2000 election — Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Thursday night that he's come to the realization that the rationale behind …
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
BREAKING: The Scandals are Falling Apart! — So says Ezra Klein, who may turn out to be one of the stupidest people ever to be given column inches in a printed medium of any variety. — After reading Klein's desperate attempt to map onto reality his own desires, written in the form …
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Paul Krugman, A plain blog about politics and The Mahablog
Marketplace.org:
Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld — To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed. — Subscribe to podcast - Download audio - Embed player - Audio player assistance - Pop-Up — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld published his memoir, “Known and Unknown” in 2011.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Reporter Turned White House Spokesman Enjoys the Hot Seat — WASHINGTON — For the better part of a decade, Jay Carney sat slumped in his tiny chair in the White House briefing room, parsing, challenging and at times pillorying the words of an array of press secretaries.
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The Huffington Post, Weekly Standard and msnbc.com
Ed Fischer / CBS Philly:
Center City Job Fair For Ex-Offenders Is Canceled After 3,000 Show Up — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The City of Philadelphia shut down a career fair for ex-offenders today after an unexpected crowd of thousands showed up, résumés in hand. — There were lots of disppointed job seekers and potential employers this morning.
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Rewriting History: GOP Senator Pretends He Voted For Expanded Background Checks — On his Facebook page Friday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) denied he ever voted against strengthened background checks amid blacklash over his opposition to the bipartisan Manchey-Toomey background checks amendment.
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The Huffington Post and Associated Press