memeorandum: Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

3:45 PM ET, June 17, 2014

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U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid — An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on Sept. 11, 2012. The alleged ringleader in the attack has been captured by involving Special Operations forces.

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Fox News Suggests Obama Captured Benghazi Suspect To Boost Hillary's Book Tour — Hillary Clinton in 2012, at one of her last events as Secretary of State — A Fox News anchor suggested that President Obama captured one of the alleged architects of the September 2012 attack …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Associated Press, Daily Kos and Mediaite

Fox News:
Benghazi attack suspect captured by American team, en route to US

Discussion: The Raw Story, Sic Semper Tyrannis, Poynter and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
U.S. Says It Captured Suspected Leader of Benghazi Attack

Discussion: National Review

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Dana Milbank's Heritage disaster — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank set off a flurry of outraged tweets on Monday night after posting a highly critical recap of a panel event at the Heritage Foundation that, he says, “deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Instapundit, Hot Air, Gawker and Mediaite

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel — Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series of gatherings to draw attention to the Benghazi controversy. — But this one took an unexpected turn.

Discussion: The Federalist, ThinkProgress, Liberaland, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Hot Air, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Daily Banter, Mediaite, BillMoyers.com, National Review and Hullabaloo

Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Muslim Student Gets Mocked At Heritage Benghazi Panel

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Jawa Report

Elianayjohnson / National Review:

IRS Has Lost More Emails... It's not just Lois Lerner's emails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can't produce emails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according to two Republicans investigating the scandal. — The IRS told Ways …

Discussion: Bloomberg View, RedState, TheBlaze.com, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and Althouse

Wall Street Journal:

A Tale of Two Scandals — Forty-one years ago, during a small and largely ignored government scandal, a great mystery occurred. A group of determined congressional investigators, who had learned the president of the United States was running a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office, pressed to get their hands on the tapes.

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
It's reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods's 18½ minutes of fame.

Discussion: LifeNews.com, Sister Toldjah, Power Line, Liberal Values, RedState, The Daily Signal and NewsBusters

Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Scott Johnson / Power Line:

The great unraveling — In one of the PBS series that engages American history (was it The American Experience? Frontline? I don't remember and can't find it online), the producers took a look back at the Carter administration. The show I'm thinking of would have been broadcast some 20 years ago.

Charles Lipson / Chicago Tribune:

Downward spiral of Obama's presidency … “Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job.” That was George W. Bush's infamous compliment to Michael Brown, his then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It came as New Orleans lay flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 …

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Barack Obama golfs while the Middle East burns — Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president. He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg.

Kendall Breitman / Politico:

D'Souza baffles Megyn Kelly — Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza baffled Megyn Kelly on Monday night with an analogy that compared the United States to a child molesting father. — Appearing on Fox's “The Kelly File” to promote his new book, “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Laughs at Dinesh D'Souza: So You're Saying America Is a ‘Child Molester’?

Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

NC GOPer: Unlike Blacks Or Hispanics, ‘Traditional’ Population Isn't Growing (VIDEO) — State House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, said that the “traditional” voting bloc of his home state wasn't growing like as minority populations in an interview he did in 2012.

Discussion: Washington Post, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Hinterland Gazette, Right Wing Watch and The Raw Story

Mark Leibovich / New York Times:

Rick Perry's ‘Groundhog Day’ — “Boys, I am going to bless this meal,” Rick Perry said, ducking his head and folding his hands under his chin. We were sitting at Nate 'n Al, the Jewish Deli in Beverly Hills, and the governor of Texas was looking every bit the regular customer in a tight black polo shirt and designer glasses.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hinterland Gazette, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and The Week

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Congressional Republicans Go Silent On Obama's LGBT Discrimination Order — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Monday that he's moving forward with an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Washington Blade, FRC, AMERICAblog News and Washington Post

Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Obama to Sign Executive Order on LGBT Discrimination

Discussion: The Dish, Public Religion Research …, The PJ Tatler, Washington Blade, Bloomberg View and The Huffington Post

David Corn / Mother Jones:

FLASHBACK: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq? — The former Bush administration official is perhaps the worst person to give advice about the current crisis in Iraq—but that hasn't stopped him from speaking out.

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air, The Dish, Washington Post and The Huffington Post

Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:

Democrat says he's leading black GOTV effort for Cochran — A Democratic political operative says he is working with Mississippi Conservatives PAC to drum up votes for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. — James “Scooby Doo” Warren said he has put together a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) plan and is “putting it in place across the whole state.”

Discussion: New York Times, Riehl World News and RedState

Richard Rubin / Bloomberg:

Wealthy Clintons Use Trusts to Limit Estate Tax They Back — Bill and Hillary Clinton have long supported an estate tax to prevent the U.S. from being dominated by inherited wealth. That doesn't mean they want to pay it. — To reduce the tax pinch, the Clintons are using financial …

Discussion: The Week, Gawker, Mediaite, America Rising and Washington Post

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Publishing Source: Hillary Book a ‘Bomb’ — In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a “bomb.” The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.

Discussion: Hot Air, TheBlaze.com and The Daily Caller