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Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Journalism has died’ at New York Times: Graham, McCain slam Benghazi report — Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain harshly criticized The New York Times on Thursday over a recent report which concluded that Al Qaeda was not involved in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Associated Press
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon's hands tied on hunting down Benghazi attackers — The U.S. military cannot hunt down and kill people responsible for the deadly 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as long as the terrorists are not officially deemed members or affiliates of al Qaeda …
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Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
The Fiscal Times:
We Finally Know Where the Buck Stops in Benghazi
We Finally Know Where the Buck Stops in Benghazi
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NewsBusters, Ed Driscoll and Patterico's Pontifications
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Can Hillary Clinton survive Benghazi?
Can Hillary Clinton survive Benghazi?
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msnbc.com, Guardian, Betsy's Page, Prairie Weather, Mediaite and The Fix
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Lawmakers seek to stymie plan to shift control of drone campaign from CIA to Pentagon
Lawmakers seek to stymie plan to shift control of drone campaign from CIA to Pentagon
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Wired, The World's Greatest …, Hot Air, RT, Firedoglake, emptywheel, Post Politics, National Review and The Reaction
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
What Christie Did To Get A Reputation As A Political Bully Even In College — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is no stranger to accusations of political bullying and backroom dealing like those at the heart of the bridge scandal. — TPM has found one of the first times …
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susiemadrak.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CNN:
Christie: What you need to know — (CNN) - New Jersey …
Christie: What you need to know — (CNN) - New Jersey …
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Politico, Right Turn, Ed Driscoll and Business Insider
Marist Poll:
1/15: NBC News/Marist Poll: Are New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's Political Plans Bottlenecked?
1/15: NBC News/Marist Poll: Are New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's Political Plans Bottlenecked?
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Firedoglake
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Chris Christie Is an Amateur
Chris Christie Is an Amateur
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alicublog and Power Line
Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
The Christie Investigation: From Inquiry to Lynching?
The Christie Investigation: From Inquiry to Lynching?
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Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico, Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep — The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, emptywheel, Washington Monthly, Mashable, The Verge, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Washington's Blog and Shakesville
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Movie mogul says new Streep film to make NRA 'wish they weren't alive' — Producer reveals secret project to Howard Stern — Movie producer Harvey Weinstein announced for the first time on Howard Stern's radio show that he is making a full feature drama to try to destroy the National Rifle Association.
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NewsBusters blogs, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, Moonbattery and FishbowlDC
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Harvey Weinstein: I'm Working on Movie That Will Make NRA 'Wish They Weren't Alive'
Harvey Weinstein: I'm Working on Movie That Will Make NRA 'Wish They Weren't Alive'
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The Raw Story, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Politico
ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Candidate's Ad Touts His ‘Sexy’ Wife And Large Testicles — California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R) wants voters to know that his testicles are very large. And that he wants to put “a gun in every Californian's gun safe.” — That's the image Donnelly's decided to present …
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Althouse, Mediaite and Liberaland
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying — WASHINGTON — As a young lawmaker defining himself as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama visited a center for scholars in August 2007 to give a speech on terrorism. He described a surveillance state run amok and vowed to rein it in.
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JustOneMinute, Techdirt, AEIdeas, Hot Air, Hit & Run, Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire and Washington Post
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Morning Plum: How Dems are fighting back on Obamacare
Morning Plum: How Dems are fighting back on Obamacare
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Liberal Values, Politico, National Review and Mediaite
Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
Members of Congress Introduce a new Fix for the Voting Rights Act — Marchers at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington, August 24, 2013. (REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan) — Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy …
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Election Law Blog, ThinkProgress, Wonkblog and theGrio
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Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Voting Rights Act Fix (Updated)
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Voting Rights Act Fix (Updated)
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Colorlines
NY Daily News:
Adam Lanza calls in radio station a year before Sandy Hook shooting and gives bizarre interview — LISTEN TO THE TAPE — Documents reveal how Lanza, a year before Newtown massacre, used the pseudonym ‘Smiggles’ on a message board to talk about calling an Oregon college radio station and masking …
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Mediaite, The Raw Story, Gawker, The Daily Banter, Talking Points Memo, Shakesville and The Other McCain
Associated Press:
Executed Ohio killer Dennis McGuire took 15 minutes to die with never-before-tried drugs — The two-drug combination was used for the first time on the convicted killer and rapist, who stabbed pregnant woman Joy Stewart to death in 1989. — Condemned killer Dennis McGuire was executed using a never-tried lethal cocktail.
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Dana Ford / CNN:
Ohio killer executed
Ohio killer executed
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The Columbus Dispatch, The Moderate Voice and Los Angeles Times
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Who's Rubin's Early Fave for '16? — One of the more amusing pastimes in Washington on slow news days is to observe how certain pundits who are only happy if they are shilling for a presidential campaign seem to be lining up early in the 2016 cycle. Nobody was more prone to this malady …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Presidential contenders' travails in the Senate
Presidential contenders' travails in the Senate
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Booman Tribune
James Nye / Daily Mail:
Obama is ‘chronically incapable’ of military strategy and ‘clueless about what he wants to do in the world’ according to top UK defense adviser — Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff has heavily criticized President Obama — The Oxford University professor believes …
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The Right Scoop, Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Senior UK Defense Advisor: Obama Is Clueless About ‘What He Wants To Do In The World’
Senior UK Defense Advisor: Obama Is Clueless About ‘What He Wants To Do In The World’
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The Gateway Pundit and Yahoo! News
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Even Worse Than We Thought — Fascinating email from TPM Reader DW about the sheer level of attempted sabotage down at the ground level in GOP-run Obamacare rejectionist states.
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Balloon Juice
Ashlei King / 6:
Author Of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Speaks Out — The author behind Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage is speaking out. — It's been a part of Oklahoma's constitution for ten years. Now, it's been struck down by a federal judge. — That doesn't mean same-sex couples can run straight to the altar.
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Advocate, Mediaite and The Raw Story
David Von Drehle / TIME:
Can Anyone Stop Hillary? — Why Clinton's 2016 candidacy-without-a-campaign dominates the political galaxy — Hillary Clinton has not decided whether to run for President again. I have this on good authority, despite a recent barrage of reports detailing the many moves that signal a campaign in the making.
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, TheBlaze.com, Post Politics, Shakesville and The Week
Ben White / Politico:
How Washington beat Wall Street — NEW YORK — In 2009, Washington went to war against big Wall Street banks hoping to blow up the kind of high-risk, high-reward strategies that helped spark the financial crisis. Five years later, that war is largely over. And Washington won in a blowout.
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Capitol Report and AEIdeas