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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Apprehension of Ahmed Abu Khattala May Begin to Answer Questions on Assault — CAIRO — Ahmed Abu Khattala was always open about his animosity toward the United States, and even about his conviction that the Muslims and Christians were locked in an intractable religious war.
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Fox News:
Clinton claims she had doubts about video explanation after Benghazi strike — Hillary Clinton, in a sit-down interview with Fox News, suggested Tuesday that she had doubts from the outset about whether the Benghazi terror attack was triggered by a protest over an anti-Islam film …
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CNN, Guardian, Power Line, National Review and Washington Free Beacon
Dan Merica / CNN:
What we heard at CNN's Clinton town hall — Washington (CNN) — Hillary Clinton did at CNN's town hall meeting on Tuesday what most politicians do: She staked out a position on some issues, catered to her base in others and avoided some questions altogether.
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Althouse, Taylor Marsh and Mashable
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Fox's Bret Baier Relentlessly Hammers Hillary Clinton on Benghazi
Fox's Bret Baier Relentlessly Hammers Hillary Clinton on Benghazi
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Taylor Marsh and The Huffington Post
BBC:
US seizes Benghazi raid ‘ringleader’ Ahmed Abu Khattala
US seizes Benghazi raid ‘ringleader’ Ahmed Abu Khattala
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The Daily Beast, National Review, Sic Semper Tyrannis and The Raw Story
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
REPUBLICANS TO OBAMA: Put The Benghazi ‘Ringleader’ In Guantanamo's Prison
REPUBLICANS TO OBAMA: Put The Benghazi ‘Ringleader’ In Guantanamo's Prison
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Washington Post:
U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid
U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid
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Allen West / Allen B. West:
Squirrel! Benghazi suspect conveniently captured to deflect attention from all the other nightmares
Squirrel! Benghazi suspect conveniently captured to deflect attention from all the other nightmares
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PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine — Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. — As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Daily Banter, Belmont Club, Balloon Juice, The Week, The Dish, Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Politico
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Rules Out Iraq Airstrikes for Now — President Barack Obama decided against immediate airstrikes on marauding Sunni extremists in Iraq, opting instead to pursue strategies such as providing intelligence to the Iraqi military and addressing the country's political divisions. — Iraqis Repel Insurgents
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Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, Fox News and Lawfare
Lawrence Wright / News Desk:
ISIS's Savage Strategy in Iraq
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Obama's Foreign Policy Rating Plummets, Even Without Iraq — And respondents are evenly divided if the details of Bergdahl's disappearance from his base in Afghanistan matter in the U.S. decision to secure his release: 47 percent say the details matter, while 46 percent say they don't.
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Business Insider and Hot Air
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Wall Street Journal:
Poll Shows Erosion in President's Support — As clouds gather abroad, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Mr. Obama's job approval rating at 41%, matching a previous low.
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Politico, Independent Journal Review and Washington Free Beacon
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Ted Cruz says he'd never heard of Peter King — Rep. Peter King? Never heard of him, Sen. Ted Cruz says. — The Texas senator says he had never heard of the New York Republican who has repeatedly and harshly attacked him until recently. — “I don't know Mr. King,” Cruz, a Texas Republican, said on CNN on Tuesday evening.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obama's double asterisks on IRS: Column — First, we found out agency was targeting Tea Party. Now IRS emails are missing. Cover-up? — I guess it's time to award President Obama a second asterisk. When charges came out that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups for harassment …
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TaxProf Blog, NewsBusters and Sister Toldjah
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Lawmakers Skeptical on Emails and I.R.S. — WASHINGTON — Six additional Internal Revenue Service workers lost emails sought by congressional investigators when their computers crashed, investigators announced Tuesday, escalating Republican suspicions that the employees may have been trying …
James Poulos / The Daily Beast:
Paging Rose Mary Woods: Obama's Unbelievable Missing IRS Emails — The IRS scandal's back, with Lois Lerner mislaying two years of communiqués—just like Nixon's secretary and her erased tapes. But the presidential characters couldn't be more different.
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The Daily Signal and Hit & Run
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Thad Cochran Faces Chris McDaniel in a Primary Runoff Election Tuesday — HERNANDO, Miss. — Senator Thad Cochran's critics may disparage him as the “King of Pork.” But to the local politicians in the booming suburbs here in northwest Mississippi, just south of Memphis, it is good to be in the realm of the king.
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Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
Democrat says he's leading black GOTV effort for Cochran
Democrat says he's leading black GOTV effort for Cochran
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BREITBART.COM, Washington Monthly, American Spectator, Riehl World News, New York Times and RedState
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge — The man accused of shooting two law enforcement members in California, including a Bureau of Land Management ranger, has had at least one previous run-in with law enforcement and has described himself as the target of a massive government conspiracy.
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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.”
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John P. Walters / Politico:
Why Libertarians Are Wrong About Drugs — Others see a regulated, licensed dispensary model, perhaps with medical supervision. But misuse of opiate pharmaceuticals already represents the second-largest illicit drug threat in America. Would there be political corruption in the quest for those dispensary licenses?
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Firedoglake
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Conundrum of a Unified Iraq and a Unified Syria — There is much talk right now about America teaming up with Iran to push back the coalition of Sunni militias that has taken over Mosul and other Sunni towns in western Iraq and Syria. For now, I'd say stay out of this fight …
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The GOP's Latest, Embarrassing Retreat from the Obamacare Wars — In Republican primary politics it's taken as a given that candidates will scatter rightward toward the sweet spot between reason and disqualifying insanity. Some will inevitably overshoot. But Obamacare was supposed …
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The Dish