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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.
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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 …
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Fox News:
Benghazi attack suspect captured by American team, en route to US — A suspected terrorist linked to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that killed four Americans has been captured inside Libya by U.S. forces and currently is en route to the United States, Fox News has learned.
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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.
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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.
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 …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
It's reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods's 18½ minutes of fame.
It's reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods's 18½ minutes of fame.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this
Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this
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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.
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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,” …
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Laughs at Dinesh D'Souza: So You're Saying America Is a ‘Child Molester’?
Megyn Kelly Laughs at Dinesh D'Souza: So You're Saying America Is a ‘Child Molester’?
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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.
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Iran Offers Iraq ‘Everything it Needs’ to Fight ISIS
Iran Offers Iraq ‘Everything it Needs’ to Fight ISIS
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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.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Muslim Student Gets Mocked At Heritage Benghazi Panel
WATCH: Muslim Student Gets Mocked At Heritage Benghazi Panel
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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.
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Economy May Be improving. Worker Pay Isn't. — The latest economic data out Tuesday morning was generally good. Home building activity rebounded nicely in May after weak results in April. Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in May, such that inflation over the last year is now 2.1 percent …
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.
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton's Book Tops Barnes & Noble Sales In First Week
Hillary Clinton's Book Tops Barnes & Noble Sales In First Week
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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 …
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service — Starting internal tests of subscription service but faces accusation of ‘catastrophic error of judgement’ — Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Jack White could disappear from YouTube “in a matter of days” …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama will propose vast expansion of Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary — The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati lies seven feet above sea level, on average. But scientists say it's drowning. PostTV asked Kiribati President Anote Tong how he's planning for a future that might find his entire country submerged in the Pacific Ocean.
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