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Obama´s Counsel Told of IRS
Audit Findings Weeks Ago
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Wall Street Journal, by Peter Nicholas
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/19/2013 9:04:45 PM
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The White House´s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday. That disclosure has prompted a debate over whether the president should have been notified at that time. In the week of April 22, the Office of the White House Counsel and its head, Kathryn Ruemmler, were told by Treasury Department attorneys that an inspector general´s report was nearing completion, the White House official said. In that conversation, Ms. Ruemmler learned that "a small
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´Do not waste a minute living
someone else´s dream´: First
Lady gives stirring speech
at Nashville high school which
thrives despite rats and leaky ceilings
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Daily Mail (UK), by Katie Davies
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 8:17:10 PM
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The First Lady Michelle Obama told graduates from Nashville´s Martin Luther King Jr High School to carve their own path, work hard and show grit and determination at her commencement speech today. But little did she know that teachers and students at the Tennessee school, have shown more grit than most in dealing with the school´s run-down conditions. The school was honored to host Mrs Obama in the only high school graduation speech she will give this year. But it was no surprise the event was held off campus given the state of the school buildings
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The Republican wolves are out for
Obama but they are yet to draw blood
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Guardian (U.K.), by Gary Younge
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 7:47:16 PM
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The thing people often forget about the story of the boy who cried wolf was that, at the end of the day, there was a wolf. For the past six years – since Barack Obama announced his presidential intentions – Republicans have been crying themselves hoarse. Obama, if they were to be believed, was a Kenyan-born communist Muslim with a forged birth certificate who stole the election by registering millions of ineligible voters. "A lot of information about Obama´s background is missing," said Abigail Billings, at a meeting of a 9-
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Big Government Loses Control
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Wall Street Journal, by L. Gordon Crovitz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 7:44:20 PM
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What to make of the political scandals that are dominating the headlines and forcing the Obama administration into Nixonian damage control? Technology is finally doing to big government what it has done to big business, big media and other institutions that once could operate with nearly full control over information. The government is losing the ability to manipulate information to avoid accountability. Consider how the news broke that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting conservative groups. The admission by IRS official Lois Lerner came in response to a question from the audience at a low-profile
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Republicans owe Rice an apology
on Benghazi, Obama adviser says
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 7:38:42 PM
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WASHINGTON – White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday Republicans owe Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an apology for alleging she played a part in formulating the White House’s response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed four Americans. Pfeiffer said on ABC’s “This Week” that the release of more than 100 pages of Benghazi emails and notes show “beyond a shadow of the doubt” that accusations she tried to change the narrative of what happened in the attacks was false. "And, frankly, I think that many of the Republicans
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Obama Aide: ´Irrelevant Fact´ Where
President Was During Benghazi Attacks
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 7:37:24 PM
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Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it´s an "irrelevant fact" where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, 2012: Host Chris Wallace reminds Pfeiffer that Obama didn´t really talk with Secretary Clinton, Secretary Panetta, or Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that night. "He was talking to his national security staff," Pfeiffer insists. Asked about whether the president entered the Situation Room, Pfeiffer says, "I don´t remember what room the president was in on that night, and that´s a largely irrelevant fact." Pfeiffer then argues that Wallace´s questions about the president´s handling
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Tornadoes tear through
Kansas, Oklahoma
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NBC News, by Jeff Black, Hasani Gittens
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/19/2013 7:30:24 PM
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People in two states were taking shelter amid wailing warning sirens Sunday as tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma as part of an extreme weather system plowing through the nation´s midsection. The system, which stretched from North Texas to Minnesota, also heaved hail--dime to softball sized--as well as heavy rainfall. Residents in downtown Wichita, Kan., were told to seek shelter Sunday afternoon after a tornado was confirmed on the ground--with its presence cloaked by thick thunder clouds and heavy rain. Near Oklahoma City, a half-mile wide tornado was reported, prompting a stark alert
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Romney Donor VanderSloot: I
Was Audited Twice by IRS, Once
by DOL & Investigated
by Senate Staffer
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/19/2013 7:14:08 PM
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Idaho-based businessman Frank VanderSloot, who gave $1 million to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC in the last election, told Breitbart News he was audited three times last year and investigated a fourth. VanderSloot was personally audited by the IRS, as was his business. The Department of Labor audited his business too, and a staffer for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations appeared in his town of Idaho Falls, Idaho, seeking legal records about him. All of this happened almost immediately after President Obama’s re-election campaign put him on what has become colloquially known as Obama’s “enemies list.”
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Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official:
“Everything comes from the top.”
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Washington Examiner, by Sean Higgins
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:59:52 PM
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A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents. The Post story anonymously quoted a staffer in Cincinnati as saying they only operate on directives from headquarters: As could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don’t necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they’re engaged in partisan villainy.
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Penny Pritzker: Obama´s Worst
Insult to His Left-Wing Base
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/19/2013 6:59:23 PM
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In a crowded field, Chicago billionaire, bundler, sub-prime banker and union buster Penny Pritzker is clearly the worst nominee that President Barack Obama has chosen for his second term cabinet. Though the position for which she has been nominated, Secretary of Commerce, often goes to a presidential crony or political insider, Pritzker would exceed all her predecessors and peers with her shocking record of cronyism and failure. Pritzker ran Superior Bank into the ground by dealing in sub-prime mortgages. As Breitbart News noted recently, the bank´s depositors lost $6000, on average, and the taxpayers
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White House Warns Against
IRS ‘Fishing Expedition’
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Bloomberg News, by Alan Bjerga & Joshua Gallu
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:58:50 PM
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President Barack Obama will not cooperate in a “partisan fishing expedition” over who knew what and when about revelations that groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra Internal Revenue Service scrutiny. “We are going to work with Congress, as the president said, in legitimate oversight,” Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to Obama, said today on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” program. “What we’re not going to participate in is a partisan fishing expedition designed to distract from the real issues at hand.” The controversy over the agency’s selective screening of anti-tax groups has stirred Republican attacks on
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White House Aide Calls
Criticism of Obama ‘Offensive’
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:57:26 PM
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A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying that the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.” The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president’s inner circle, as he appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to move the administration past what commentators have described as a “hell week” of controversy and missteps.
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Obama: "As An African American
You Have To Work Twice As Hard
As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"
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Real Clear Politics, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:55:47 PM
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life
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Obama Uses Commencement
Address to Recall Jim Crow, Racism
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:54:24 PM
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In a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, President Barack Obama recalls Jim Crow laws and racism of the 40s and 50s. Morehouse College is a historically black college. "Dr. King was just 15 years old when he enrolled here at Morehouse. He was an unknown, undersized, unassuming young freshman who lived at home with his parents. I think it’s fair to say he wasn’t the coolest kid on campus; for the suits he wore, his classmates called him ´Tweed.´ But his education at Morehouse helped to forge the intellect, the soul
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Accepting Responsibility Would
Blow Obama’s Circuits
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/19/2013 6:53:13 PM
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Barack Obama, speaking to a crowd in Baltimore on Friday, said, “I know it can seem frustrating sometimes when it seems like Washington’s priorities aren’t the same as your priorities. I know it often seems like folks down there are more concerned with their jobs than with yours.” Earlier in the week, when speaking about the IRS scandal, Obama said, “I’ve reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate
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Schieffer to Obama Advisor:
‘Why Are You Here? Why
Isn’t the White House
Chief of Staff Here?’
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Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/19/2013 5:42:44 PM
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As NewsBusters reported two weeks ago, CBS’s Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House’s talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September. His impatience continued on Sunday´s Face the Nation when Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer gave stock answers to questions about the three crises facing the President leading Schieffer to first accuse his guest of taking "exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took" and finally scolding him by asking, "Why are you here today? Why isn´t the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?"
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IRS Audited Conservative
Women´s Group
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/19/2013 5:15:15 PM
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The IRS audited a conservative women’s group in 2011, and ultimately found no wrongdoing, in what appears to be another example of the scandal plaguing the tax agency. In January 2011, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute founder and president Michelle Easton told Breitbart News, an IRS agent called “to say our Form 990 from the year 2008 had been selected for examination.” Easton said that means, in “government lingo,” her group was getting an IRS audit. “The IRS agent who called would not tell me how or why we were selected,” Easton said in an email.
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Netanyahu takes aim at
weapons leakage in Syria
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Reuters, by Jeffrey Heller
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:25:47 PM
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Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. (Snip) In public remarks at the weekly meeting of his cabinet, Netanyahu made no direct mention of those attacks, but said Israel was prepared to take action in the future and was "preparing for every scenario" in the Syrian conflict. Israel had a policy "to prevent, as much as possible, the leakage of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements", he said.
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Holy Cannibalism, Bat Man:
Liberals Are Eating Liberals
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Townhall, by Doug Giles
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Posted By: lcl4- 5/19/2013 4:12:04 PM
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Grab some popcorn, folks. Pull up a chair. Get yourself a 6 pack. No … a 12pack and join with me and other liberty-minded folks as we watch the Left finally sink their comedic and inquisitive teeth into the rotted flesh of the Hope & Crap Machine that we’ve been caterwauling about for the last five, seems like twenty, years. I don’t know about you guys but last week was a little gift from God as we got to see the Lame Stream Media get a modicum of game and finally call Obama and his ilk out on the carpet for their Benghazi Bullsmack, their egregious bullying of patriotic non-profits by the IRS
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Moon hit by boulder-size meteoroid,
causing ´explosion´ visible
from earth (+video)
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Christian Science Monitor, by Mark Trumbull
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:07:35 PM
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If you had been looking up at the moon at the right moment on March 17, you could have seen an unusual flash of light – a one-second burst of heat caused by the impact of a large meteoroid. No telescope required. “For about one second, the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star,” NASA said in reporting the news Friday. This meteoroid was the size of a small boulder, and was travelling very fast. NASA estimates the size at 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide, and the speed at 56,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion delivered a force equal to 5 tons of TNT. NASA puts a footnote on the word
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Obama admits he’s a socialist
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New York Post, by Kyle Smith
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:59:42 PM
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You may be forgiven if you missed it during last week’s tsunami of scandals, but President Obama finally let slip that he is a socialist. Buried in the 17th paragraph of one of those mewling New York Times pieces on the woes of Obama — can we start calling him Woe-bama yet? — appeared these two words: “going Bulworth.” Obama himself, the Times explained, has been “longingly” telling his inner circle that what he’d really like to do is what Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty in his 1998 movie “Bulworth,” did: to go public as
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Candy Crowley: Is it Possible
This Isn´t Political and
IRS Didn´t Intend to Harass
the Tea Party?
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Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:54:02 PM
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"Can you see in your mind´s eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn´t intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?" So actually asked CNN´s Candy Crowley of her guest Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concerning the Internal Revenue Service scandal Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Moving on to the IRS problem at this moment, which is really sort of in its infancy. There will be lots more hearings coming up this week
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WH: Legality of IRS Action
Against Conservatives ´Irrelevant´
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Breitbart Big Government, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:43:10 PM
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Appearing on Sunday morning on ABC News’ This Week, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told a credulous George Stephanopoulos that the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups was “inexcusable,” and that the law with regard to the activity was “irrelevant.” “I can’t speak to the law here,” he said. “The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.” When asked for clarification, Pfeiffer expounded: “What I mean is, whether it’s legal or illegal is not important to the fact
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WH: ´Irrelevant´ Who
Edited Benghazi Talking Points
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Breitbart Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:40:46 PM
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Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that it was “largely irrelevant” who edited the talking points the Obama administration trotted out in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Host Bob Schieffer asked, “That was just a PR plan, to send out somebody who didn’t know anything about what had happened. Why did you do that? Why didn’t the Secretary of State come and tell us what they knew, and if they knew nothing, say ‘We don’t know yet?’ …. Why are you here today?
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WH: ´Irrelevant´ Where Obama
Was During Benghazi Attacks
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Breitbart Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:37:54 PM
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On Fox News Sunday this morning, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer was asked by Chris Wallace where in the White House President Obama was during the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans. “Question,” asked Wallace. “What did the President do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?” Pfeiffer answered, “Look, the President was kept up to date on this as it was happening the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end …. I recognize that there’s a series of conspiracy theories Republicans have been spinning about it
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Non-deportation rate
drops — to 99.2 percent
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Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:28:53 PM
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The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama’s new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday. That’s a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported last month. The policy, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, grants legal status to most illegal immigrants under the age of 31 who came to the U.S. before age 16 — usually brought by their parents. They are allowed to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation, and are given work
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