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Senate Finance Committee issues
request for detailed information on
IRS targeting scandal by May 31st
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Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:25:18 PM
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The House has already begun its investigation of the IRS scandal, with Friday’s hearing in the House Ways and Means Committee. The Senate Finance Committee will follow in short order, and it has already issued a “request” for detailed information from the agency about its targeting of conservative groups over the last three years. Ironically, it looks a lot like the kind of request that the agency sent out to those groups, with 41 demands and just 11 days to respond. The letter, provided by a source on Capitol Hill, shows that the questioning is likely to feel a lot like an audit:
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Marco Rubio Reacts to Report Fox
News Reporters Were Targeted by DOJ
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:12:58 PM
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement after a report was released claiming that the Obama Administration targeted a FOX News reporter during a leak investigation: “I am very concerned by reports the Obama Administration targeted a FOX News reporter for possible criminal prosecution for doing what appears to be normal news-gathering protected by the First Amendment. The sort of reporting by James Rosen detailed in the report is the same sort of reporting that helped Mr. Rosen aggressively pursue questions about the Administration’s handling of Benghazi.
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Megyn Kelly Calls Out DOJ
for Tracking Movements of
Fox News Reporter
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 2:07:56 PM
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After another troubling report about the Justice Department´s crackdown on media leaks, Megyn asks, "how many times has this happened?" We´re learning more by the minute following an explosive report by the Washington Post about the Justice Department monitoring the movements of Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen. The DOJ was reportedly looking into Rosen´s visits to the State Department, via his security badge, in addition to obtaining search warrants for his personal phone and emails. It all stemmed from a leak by someone in the State
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America´s Latino future
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BBC News [UK], by Mark Mardell
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/20/2013 2:04:38 PM
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The floor of the community centre in Springdale, Arkansas, shakes to a staccato rhythm as the young Latino dancers practise their steps. [Snip] It is about nourishing their Mexican roots, making sure their culture doesn´t shrivel and die in this corner of the Deep South. I have come to Springdale because it is a harbinger of America´s future. Ten years ago there were hardly any Latinos here--now they make up more than 30% of the population. Predictions suggest that by 2030, this is what the US will look like. Changing attitudes? Right now, one in four Americans under 18 is
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Squelching the Tea Party
Gave Obama the Election
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American Thinker, by Karin McQuillan
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Posted By: LC Hoghead- 5/20/2013 2:01:13 PM
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Remember all the headlines during the election, wondering what happened to the Tea Party, the liberal crowing that it had gone silent? NPR, February 2012: "Strong in 2010, Where Is the Tea Party Now?" - "what´s most striking about the movement this election has been its notable absence." Mother Jones, "The Tea Party is Dead." ." ABC: "What Happened to the Tea Party?" New York Times, June 2012: "The Movement Has Fizzled Out." Remember how odd it was hear conservative pundits saying, 'our voters would crawl over broken glass to vote against Obama', while pollsters correctly predicted that Republican turnout would be nowhere near what it was in 2010? Remember 2010, when the Tea Party grassroots roared?
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Organized labor to oppose President
Obama´s nomination of Penny Pritzker
for commerce secretary
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New York Daily News, by James Warren
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:53:34 PM
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Organized labor will break its silence and oppose President Obama´s nominee for Commerce Secretary, Chicago´s Penny Pritzker, the Daily News has learned. The decision stems from long-standing grievances with labor practices at the Hyatt Hotels chain, a source of her family´s fortune, and despite earlier reports that unions would not raise objections to the nomination. Donald "D" Taylor, president of the national Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE), confirmed the move to The News on Monday. His opposition was spurred by his just learning that the Senate Commerce Committee was moving up its confirmation hearing for Pritzker.
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Bill Kristol: Obama ‘Did Not Behave’
The Way A President Should
On Night Of Benghazi Attack
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:41:51 PM
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In an appearance on C-SPAN on Monday, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, scolded President Barack Obama for what reports suggest was his hands-off approach to the ongoing crisis in Benghazi on the night of an attack on that city’s American consulate. “I am willing to say that he did not behave as a President of the United States should have behaved that night,” Kristol said. A C-SPAN caller asked Kristol about the second phase of the Benghazi attack, in which militants laid siege to an annex for several hours. The caller asked about the
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Report: DOJ Leaked Docs
To Smear Fast & Furious
Whistleblower, Says IG
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Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:38:38 PM
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a Department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. Attorney.”
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MSNBC Dutifully Demonizes
Conservative Black GOP Politician:
‘He Might Make Todd Akin
Look Like A Moderate’
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Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 1:33:47 PM
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Now that the race for Virginia’s next governor has kicked into high gear, NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent has decided to be partisan and sharply criticized the Republican ticket. On his May 20 edition of The Daily Rundown, the MSNBC anchor hammered the GOP’s nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, African-American pastor E.W. Jackson, as extreme and someone who “might make Todd Akin look like a moderate.” "Can the GOP win in 2013 with a ticket of candidates who are best known for being very conservative and very outspoken on social issues?" Todd rhetorically asked before playing several clips
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Three Fox News Staffers
Targeted By Justice Department
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Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:30:44 PM
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Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama´s Justice Department. Fox doesn´t have all the details yet on a reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators. The IG report does say that subpoenas were issued to obtain emails. Whose email was targeted is not yet known.
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Brit Hume: ‘Chilling’ Search Of
Fox Reporter Shows DOJ Treats
‘Ordinary News Gathering As Crime’
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:24:38 PM
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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume had strong words to describe the news that his colleague James Rosen was subject to a federal leak investigation, telling America’s Newsroom that the story may indicate that the Obama Justice Department wants to treat ordinary news-gathering activities as a crime. As we reported earlier this morning, Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent Rosen was investigated in 2009 after being suspected by Justice of receiving secret information from government sources on North Korea. As part of their investigation, Justice tracked his movements within the State Department, traced the timing
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IRS Was Afraid of the Constitution,
the Obama Scandal Suggests
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New York Sun, by Ira Stoll
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 1:23:03 PM
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Of all the discouraging news in the scandal involving President Obama’s Internal Revenue Service, the most illuminating is that one of the things that triggered additional scrutiny from the IRS for groups applying for tax-exempt status was any plan for “educating on the constitution and bill of rights.” As the details of the situation have emerged, various explanations have arisen for the behavior of the IRS officials involved. A 2,700-word report issued over the weekend by a team of seven New York Times journalists attributed the problem to “an understaffed Cincinnati outpost that was alienated from the broader I.R.S. culture.”
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IRS targeted and leaked info
about a group I am affiliated with
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Fox News, by Christian Whiton
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 1:16:22 PM
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As Congress and the public struggle to comprehend the scandals rocking the Obama administration, it is important not to overlook a common thread linking all of the misconduct: the administration’s paranoia that voters would see it as weak on national defense. For having the temerity to raise questions about U.S. policy toward terrorists and Iran, Israel and North Korea, the Obama IRS targeted a non-partisan group with which I am affiliated and illegally leaked its confidential information. The White House’s paranoia about public perceptions of foreign threats also drove its scandalous surveillance of Associated Press (AP) reporters.
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Ron Paul: Fix IRS by shutting
it ‘once and for all’
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Washington Times, by David Sherfinski
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:14:53 PM
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Former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called the recent IRS fiasco troubling — but writes that the only way Congress can protect the freedoms of Americans from a long pattern of suspected IRS abuse is to “shutter the doors” of the agency “once and for all.” The longtime GOP congressman writes that IRS agents in the 1930s were essentially “hit squads” against opponents of the New Deal, and that allegations of IRS abuse spanned the administrations of Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton and George W. Bush. “The bipartisan tradition of using the IRS as a tool to harass political opponents
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Federal cuts slice Big
Apple economy: No Fleet Week
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Virginia-Pilot [Roanoke VA], by Mike Hixenbaugh
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 1:12:43 PM
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NORFOLK -This was supposed to be the week when thousands of free-spending Norfolk sailors were to descend on lower Manhattan, where New Yorkers promised to shower them with gifts, drinks and kisses. But the annual party on the Hudson River was canceled. Fleet Week New York – like all the Navy’s big community outreach events this year – fell victim to sweeping federal budget cuts. Most of the sailors who would have been treated to free baseball tickets and complimentary subway rides instead will spend the week idling in Hampton Roads traffic and reporting for duty at Norfolk Naval Station.
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If Your Doctor Asks You About
Guns, Do You Have to Answer?
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:12:07 PM
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Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about unsecured weapons in the home. Another asked whether he/she was "in a relationship in which you have been physically hurt or are you afraid of your partner?" Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that the question about guns comes out of a post-Sandy Hook executive order by President Obama, but it will be required under Obamacare. Varney expressed amazement
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Report Says Poor Are
Moving to Nation´s Suburbs
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/20/2013 1:09:55 PM
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LOS ANGELES - More poor people live in the nation´s suburbs than in urban cities because of affordable housing, service-sector jobs and the increased use of housing vouchers, according to a study released Monday. The number of those in poverty living in suburbs jumped 67 percent between 2000 and 2011, a much larger increase than in cities, researchers for the Brookings Institution said. Suburbs, however, still have a smaller percentage of the poor than cities do. The report notes that poor people were pulled to the suburbs by more affordable homes and followed jobs that were often low paying.
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Minnesota drivers paying highest
average gas prices in Lower 48
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Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN], by Tim Harlow
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/20/2013 1:02:28 PM
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Minnesota drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the 48 contiguous states, with the average price statewide running at $4.27 per gallon, according to AAA’s daily survey of gas prices. Average prices are even higher in the Twin Cities metro area at $4.31 for a gallon of unleaded gas, the report said. Drivers in Hawaii were paying the highest, at $4.35 per gallon, while those in Tennessee were paying the lowest, at $3.26. The national average is $3.63. In Duluth, the average price Monday morning was $4.32, while in Rochester it was $4.12. St. Cloud stations were reporting $4.24
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A guide for journalists (and everyone
else) to avoid government snoops
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Fox News, by John R. Quain
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 12:55:59 PM
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Revelations that the Department of Justice has been secretly spying on Associated Press reporters has given rise to accusations of intimidation tactics and apparent attempts to stifle whistle-blowers and a free press. It should also ring alarm bells for anyone concerned about their own privacy and freedom. The U.S. garners the No. 32 spot when it comes to press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, and the latest snooping scandal raises the specter of the bad old days (circa 1972) when reporters resorted to ridiculous clandestine machinations to communicate with secret sources. During the Watergate investigation,
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A very bad sign for Obama
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 12:52:56 PM
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Anne E. Marimow of the Washington Post alerts fellow MSMers and the public that the DoJ´s AP scandal might be the tip of the iceberg, and that in spying on the press, the Justice Department "did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist." She offers readers "a rare glimpse into the inner workings of one such [leak] probe" with "striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press." The fact that the target was
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IRS To Pro-Life Groups:You Know
You’re Gonna Have To Give Up
This Whole Protest Thing, Right?
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Hot Air, by Duane Patterson
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 12:38:35 PM
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We already have seen that the Obama administration doesn’t think much of the freedom of religion clause when it interferes with the HHS regulations. We’ve been shamed into giving up the 2nd Amendment, for the children. We’ve seen the freedom of the press isn’t really freedom anymore if the Justice Department doesn’t like what you’re writing about. But with the testimony Friday of Steven Miller to the House Ways And Means Committee, we see now that what you pray about is a legitimate tax question. And on the Hugh Hewitt
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‘To ABC News: Fire Jon Karl’
New Petition Calls On ABC To
Drop Embattled Reporter
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 12:31:11 PM
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Where there’s controversy, there’s bound to be a petition calling for someone’s firing. This time, it seems a liberal user of the Change.org petition-building site has begun the calls for ABC News to fire Jonathan Karl after the journalist’s report contained inaccurate quotes of leaked White House emails. He initially suggested he had “obtained” the emails from a source but, as it turns out, the quotes came from the source’s own paraphrasing of the material. This was all part of a report Karl filed on the multiple edits to post-Benghazi talking points within the Obama administration.
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Unnamed IRS Employee:
´There Has to Be a Directive.´
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 12:25:05 PM
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Sean Higgins notices a quote from a Washington Post article about the IRS office in Cincinnati: “We’re not political,’’ said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work late Tuesday afternoon. “We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. .?.?. That’s why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.”
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Team Obama digs in, fights to get
agenda on track amid scandals
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Niall Stanage
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 12:23:58 PM
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The White House is circling the wagons as one of the most feverish periods of President Obama’s tenure enters its second week. Obama and his aides have taken a more aggressive stance in recent days after fumbling their initial response to headline-grabbing scandals at different government agencies. The administration’s strategy is centered on a simple defense: “Our basic thrust is that nobody, here, did anything wrong,” an Obama administration official told The Hill. “That’s why none of this is going to stick.” Even though there is no evidence yet of wrongdoing in the White House,
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