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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ABC News's Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi — A standard defense for Hillary Rodham Clinton when facing questions about Benghazi, Libya, has been to cite her commissioning of a report from the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) …
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Power Line
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Book Signing Has Air of a Campaign Event — Andre Morales, a 36-year-old from Brooklyn, arrived before 3:00 a.m. Tuesday and planned to ask Hillary Rodham Clinton how it felt to work for President Obama after he had defeated her in the 2008 Democratic primary.
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Weekly Standard and Mediaite
Michael Scherer / TIME:
Hillary Clinton Avoids Hard Choices in Hard Choices — It reads like—and is—a political campaign book — The first thing to get out of the way is this: Hillary Clinton is running for President in 2016, even if she says on Page 595 of her new book, Hard Choices, “I haven't decided yet.”
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OnPolitics
Chris Good / ABC News:
The Hillary Clinton Interview: 21 Revealing Quotes
The Hillary Clinton Interview: 21 Revealing Quotes
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Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Guardian, CNN and The Lead with Jake Tapper
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’
Discussion:
ABC News, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Aide: Clintons ‘Have a Life and a Set of Expectations that Are Different’ from Middle Class
Aide: Clintons ‘Have a Life and a Set of Expectations that Are Different’ from Middle Class
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, National Review and Ed Driscoll
Frank James / NPR:
Hillary Clinton: I Helped Restore U.S. Leadership In The World
Hillary Clinton: I Helped Restore U.S. Leadership In The World
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The Gateway Pundit and Weekly Standard
CBS News:
How do Americans view the Bergdahl swap? — Shares - — Just over a week after U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed by the Taliban, a CBS News Poll shows 45% of Americans disapprove of the deal that saw him released in exchange for five Taliban militants, while 37% approve of it.
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Hagel Made Final Call on Bergdahl Swap, Congress Told — Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel - not President Obama - executed the administration's final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, “The Lid”, Questions and Observations, Independent Journal Review and The PJ Tatler
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Obama Administration: Bergdahl Was Chuck Hagel's Call
Obama Administration: Bergdahl Was Chuck Hagel's Call
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Hot Air, Betsy's Page, Power Line and Washington Post
Philip Ewing / Politico:
Pentagon: No ransom for Bergdahl
Pentagon: No ransom for Bergdahl
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
4 of ‘Taliban 5’ Will Likely Fight Again, U.S. Spies Say
4 of ‘Taliban 5’ Will Likely Fight Again, U.S. Spies Say
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The Jawa Report, Hot Air, Wall Street Journal and National Review
Washington Post:
Insurgents seize Iraqi city of Mosul as troops flee — BEIRUT — Insurgents seized control early Tuesday of most of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, including the provincial government headquarters, offering a powerful demonstration of the mounting threat posed by extremists to Iraq's teetering stability.
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CBS News, Hit & Run, CNN, National Review, Hot Air, Gawker, Business Insider, WAMC, The PJ Tatler, The Other McCain and Associated Press
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
One Of The World's Scariest Terrorist Groups Now Controls Major City In Iraq — ISIS fighters in Fallujah, the first city the group captured — A terrorist group that al Qaeda has deemed too radical and unpredictable now controls the second largest city in Iraq as of Tuesday …
Discussion:
Full, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Shakesville, Booman Tribune and National Review
BBC:
Iraq militants seize second city of Mosul
Iraq militants seize second city of Mosul
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New York Times, The Long War Journal, BBC and Mashable
KOIN-TV:
Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School — TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a shooting inside the Troutdale school. — Law enforcement officials offered few other details concerning the shooting during a 10 a.m. media update …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Pat Dollard and The Raw Story
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Why Is the American Far Right More Violent Than the American Far Left? — Between September 11, 2001 and March 2014, right-wing extremists killed 34 people in America. If you count the three Jewish community members Frazier Glenn Cross killed in Kansas City before screaming “Heil Hitler” …
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Washington Monthly and CNN
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
How The Worst Political State In The Country Ruined The Republican Party's Best Hope — Nikki Haley was once seen as the GOP's brightest rising star — then she got sucked into her home state's notorious political cesspool. Can she escape before 2016? — Chris Ritter
Discussion:
Washington Monthly
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Dems ratchet up push for expansion (yup) of Social Security — The idea has long remained outside the boundaries of acceptable Beltway discourse, but more and more Dems are coming around to it: Instead of getting drawn onto GOP austerity turf — into a debate …
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David Sirota / PandoDaily:
Gore at Southland: Snowden revealed far bigger violations than the one he committed — One of the most often-asked - and polled - questions in the whole debate about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is about his status. Is he a traitor or a hero? In the era of mass surveillance …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Politico
Washington Monthly:
The Big Lobotomy — Last September, as they scrambled to decide on one final ultimatum before shutting down the federal government, Republican House leaders came up with what seemed like an odd demand: to strip their own staff of health care benefits. — At the time, staffers reacted …
Discussion:
Booman Tribune
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Latest Tea Party Piñata — About three weeks ago, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, gave a speech to the Heritage Foundation. Hensarling is a Tea Party favorite. His core view is that better government …
Discussion:
National Review and The Mahablog
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: No Republican Can Win In 2016 If We Block Immigration Reform — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) warned Tuesday that if Republicans block immigration reform they'll lose the presidency in 2016 no matter who they nominate. — “I agree with Mr. [Tom] Donohue, the head of the Chamber of Commerce.