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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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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%) …


GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms — Since September, Republicans have claimed the Obama administration covered up the truth about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya by altering the talking points Susan Rice used on the Sunday morning talk shows.
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Washington Times and Right Wing Watch

Wow, This is Pretty Epic
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, PoliticusUSA, CBS News, Shakesville, Associated Press and Wonkblog

Woodward: IRS scandal ‘a big mess’ but ‘not yet’ Watergate
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Politico and The Daily Caller

It's Official: Those Bogus Email Leaks Came From Republicans
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American Prospect, PoliticusUSA and All Things Democrat

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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National Review, Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway and The PJ Tatler
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There Was No Surge in IRS Tax-Exempt Applications in 2010
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The Huffington Post, Post Politics, protein wisdom, The Jawa Report and The Volokh Conspiracy

House panel opens hearing on IRS targeting of conservative groups
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The Fix, The Other McCain, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Mediaite, American Spectator, ComPost, Federal Eye and Althouse

Congressional Hearings on I.R.S. Scandal Begin
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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.


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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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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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

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 …
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PostPartisan, Weasel Zippers, A plain blog about politics, The Maddow Blog, Booman Tribune and National Review


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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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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Obama breaches Marine umbrella protocol
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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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Mediaite, AMERICAblog and The Dish


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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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


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.

Karen Handel Enters Georgia Senate Race — Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced her campaign for Senate on Friday morning, as the state's Republican convention was set to kick off in Athens. — “States, especially those with Republican governors, are doing a good job …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
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Karen Handel announces for U.S. Senate
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Weekly Standard and Ballot Box


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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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

FLOTUS speaks to college graduates — First lady Michelle Obama called on the graduates of historically black Bowie State University to lead the charge in encouraging more young African Americans to follow in their footsteps and focus on education. — “Be an example of excellence to the next generation …
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ThinkProgress and CNN

White House counsel should resign if she knew about IRS abuses — I've been told today by several reporters that President Obama's White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, knew for several days — perhaps weeks —that some Internal Revenue Service officials were engaging in political targeting …
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Hot Air

Cover Up — The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general.
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