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Boehner’s Biggest Threat
National Review Online, by Robert Costa
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Posted By:Drive, 12/11/2012 7:18:03 AM
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| Should a debt deal go sour, the buzz is that Tom Price, a 58-year-old physician from Georgia, may challenge John Boehner for the speaker’s gavel. “Price is the person we’re all watching,” says an aide close to House leadership. “We know he’s frustrated, but we don’t know much else.” In an interview with National Review Online, Price won’t speculate about his future, but he acknowledges his growing uneasiness. “My concern is that within our conference, conservatives, who are a majority, don’t have a proper platform,” he says. “That’s true at the leadership table and on the steering committee.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MOAB, 12/11/2012 7:31:30 AM (No. 9059000)
Debt deal or no debt deal it´s long past time for Boehner to be removed. It´s very clear he is trying to remove the conservative voice, time to take back our party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mindyourbubble, 12/11/2012 7:38:39 AM (No. 9059016)
Boehner is a dud. He started out that way and will remain that way. IHO an ant has a better brain than he does. Boenher has got to go. Put him in the same closet with peolosi. There they can talk about "old times".
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Elvira, 12/11/2012 8:33:15 AM (No. 9059100)
Actually, and I don´t post this lightly, I think yhis should be a Musr Read. I like this guy from what I´ve just read. He keeps his cards close to the vest. His money quote " You don´t have to have a title of leader to be one"! Now that´s the attitude the conservatives in Congress should have!
The other money quote is in the comments!! I LOL´d so hard (pun not intended) I scared the dogs!!! ;-D
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lylacat, 12/11/2012 10:30:42 AM (No. 9059377)
Beohner should step down for the sake of his party. Boehner has to go; anyone would be better than Boehner.
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Who Is Lisa Monaco, the White
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National Journal, by Sara Sorcher
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Posted By: Drive- 4/16/2013 3:43:34 PM
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After two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday, President Obama huddled with some of his closest advisers. In the Oval Office was Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and FBI Director Robert Mueller, who sat with his chin in his hands and a white binder in his lap. Across from the engraved wooden desk to the president’s left was a relative newcomer, homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco. She held a capped pen to her face as if deep in thought. The streets of her hometown had burst into chaos, a grim reminder that Monaco’s job is a big one: advising the president on how to best protect his country.
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Ex-House Member Cynthia McKinney
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in Marathon Bombing
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Newsbusters, by Jack Coleman
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Posted By: Drive- 4/16/2013 1:00:40 PM
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Ever play the game "telephone" in school or with friends when you were a kid? One person would whisper into the ear of another person, followed by her whispering what was supposed to be the same message to the next person,(snip)Something tells me that former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Democrat of Georgia, was one of those kids certain to botch the message en route. After yesterday´s horrifying explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, McKinney tweeted this -- The pattern is becoming too, too familiar. So, Boston cops were having a "bomb squad drill"
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Two explosions at
Boston marathon finish line
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 3:23:06 PM
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BOSTON — Two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon have resulted in injuries. Bloody spectators were being carried Monday to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners. Police wove through competitors as they ran back toward the course. “There are a lot of people down,” said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
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Suit targets holes in
gov’s gun ban
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New York Post, by Fredric U. Dicker
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 9:51:26 AM
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The state’s largest gun owners’ group will seek a preliminary injunction in federal court today to block several sections of Gov. Cuomo’s tough new anti-gun law, including a bizarre provision that even the governor can’t justify, The Post has learned. The unusual section of the new SAFE Act takes effect today, and while it allows legal gun owners to put 10 bullets in the magazines of their semiautomatic rifles and pistols during competitions at shooting ranges, it makes it illegal for them to put more than seven bullets in the same gun magazines
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Wheels off the bus in Obama
Middle East policy: Fayyad quits
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 9:43:17 AM
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Salam Fayyad has resigned as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Losing practically the only Palestinian leader committed to building civil society and limiting corruption is a blow for those hoping for a two-state solution or even an improved quality of life for Palestinians. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told me in a phone interview Sunday, “This is undeniably a defeat for the administration and undeniably a defeat for the Palestinian cause.”
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Weiner, Exploring Possible Mayoral Bid,
Issues Policy Booklet With Familiar Ring
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New York Times, by Michael M. Grynbaum
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:51:34 AM
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As he seeks to extend the discussion about a possible candidacy for mayor — and shift attention away from the online sex-messaging scandal that cost him his Congressional seat — Anthony D. Weiner released a 21-page policy booklet on Sunday that he described as a blueprint for keeping New York City “the capital of the middle class.” The document, named “Keys to the City,” was largely drawn from a booklet of the same title, theme, and format that he distributed five years ago, in anticipation of a mayoral bid in 2009 that he later abandoned.
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Bloggers are Press too
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Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:36:31 AM
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From Trochilus Tales, NJ Superior Court Judge: Blogger Protected By State Shield Law: A New Jersey Superior Court Judge, Karen M. Cassidy, A.J.S.C., has issued a written opinion (posted by CountyWatchers, here and hereafter cited as “decis”) quashing a subpoena that had been issued by the Union County Prosecutor, Theodore Romankow, whose office had been seeking to compel a county-oriented blogger by the name of Tina Renna, to disclose the sources for a few recent posts (e.g., here, here, and here) which Tina wrote revealing details about a number of Union County, NJ
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
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New York Times, by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:29:32 AM
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ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
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Santorum hospitalized,
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The Hill, by Meghashyam Mali
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:03:16 AM
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One-time GOP presidential contender and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) is cancelling a trip to Iowa after being hospitalized for an illness. “While traveling in South Carolina on Saturday, Rick Santorum became ill and was admitted to the hospital for a gastro-intestinal illness and dehydration,” said Virginia Davis, spokesperson for Patriot Voices, Santorum’s political action committee, in a statement.
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Drug dependence
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Economist, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 7:51:33 AM
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LESS is sometimes more. That was the message delivered this week by Meghna Das Thakur of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, in Emeryville, California, to the American Association for Cancer Research’s meeting in Washington, DC. If a cancer evolves resistance to the drug being used to treat it, withdrawing that drug can sometimes stop the cancer in its tracks as effectively as prescribing treatment in the first place. Oncologists have suspected this for a while. Dr Thakur has, however, proved it is true—at least in the specific case of malignant melanoma and a drug called vemurafenib.
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Mitt Romney was right (on taxes)
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Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 7:38:57 AM
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More than eight in ten Americans believe that you should do everything you can to pay the lowest tax rate possible according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling, a finding that suggests that people likely hold politicians to a standard of conduct they themselves don’t adhere to.Eighty-five percent of Americans — and 86 percent of registered voters — say that they approve of people “doing everything within the law to lower their taxes.” Nearly six in ten say they “strongly” approve of doing all you can to pay as little as possible.
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Balance and Bias
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Drive- 4/14/2013 6:33:15 AM
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THE traditional American mass media — the crumbling, Internet-besieged edifice of newspapers and news shows, magazines and roundtables and journalism schools — evolved to believe with equal vigor in two not entirely compatible ideals. One is an ideal of balance, nonpartisanship and near-perfect neutrality — distilled to its essence, perhaps, by the former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr.’s longstanding refusal to cast a vote, “so that I never make up my mind which party, candidate or ideology should be in power.”
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White House snub to Thatcher:
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by James Chapman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:50:39 PM
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Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral. Whitehall sources have revealed that the U.S. delegation at tomorrow’s service in St Paul’s Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz. Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. The Queen’s decision to attend
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
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New York Times, by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
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ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
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Feds seek suspects, motive
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Associated Press, by Jimmy Golen
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 6:53:44 AM
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BOSTON -- The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world´s most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, more than 140 wounded and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why. Federal investigators said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings one of the city´s most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day. But the blasts among the throngs of spectators raised fears of a terrorist attack. President Barack Obama was careful not to use the
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph A. Slobodzian
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Posted By: LComStaff- 4/16/2013 7:02:04 AM
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He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s West Philadelphia abortion clinic. His passing went unnoticed and undocumented, but on Monday, prosecution and defense lawyers struggled to get Philadelphia´s chief medical examiner to say whether he was stillborn or killed by Gosnell after being born alive during an abortion.
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NBC Reporter Luke Russert
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/15/2013 5:18:48 PM
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In light of the explosions that have rocked Boston on Patriots’ Day, during the city’s annual marathon, NBC reporter Luke Russert took to Twitter to speculate that today’s horrific events could possibly be related to the 1993 government siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas — an incident often attached to conversations about “right-wing terrorism” and anti-government violence. “I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicle during Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link,” Russert tweeted following the explosions.
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Obama: ‘People shouldn’t
jump to conclusions’ about
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 9:45:50 PM
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Breaking: Obama to make
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President Barack Obama will deliver a statement Monday at 6:10 p.m. ET from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. As seen in the photo, President Barack Obama spoke Monday on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the Boston explosions. Seated with the President are Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. A White House official said earlier the president has been notified of the explosions. "His administration is in contact with state and local authorities.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Praises Obama’s
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appeared for ‘Couple Weeks’ After 9/11
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/16/2013 3:38:34 PM
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MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid told the host of Now, Alex Wagner, that she thought President Barack Obama’s response to the attack on the Boston Marathon on Monday was powerful and comforting in a way that President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was not. She accused Bush of being unavailable to the American people for the “first couple weeks” after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Reid told Wagner that the president’s statement actively combatted the intention of the terrorists, which is to make their targets feel “discombobulated.” “Having, sort of
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Mark Kelly threatens to back
challenger to Flake over gun votes
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The Hill [DC], by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/16/2013 4:33:26 PM
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the "right candidate" was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports. Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties.
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Meredith Baxter, Patty
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Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Breitbart News
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 11:12:19 AM
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Two veteran TV actresses may join the cast of Fox´s Glee after their upcoming appearance as a kindly lesbian couple. Meredith Baxter, known for being the All-American Mom on Family Ties, and Patty Duke who soared to fame in her self-titled series, will offer guidance to a gay character considering popping the question to his partner. According to a Friday report at E!, Oscar winner Patty Duke and longtime television star Meredith Baxter will play a lesbian couple. Not only that, regular character Blaine played by Darren Criss will propose to
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Obama: "Unimaginable" That
Congress Would "Defy" Americans
And Not Pass Gun Control
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Real Clear Politics, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 5:59:35 PM
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"I think we’ve got a good chance of seeing it pass if members of Congress are listening to the American people," President Obama said in an interview on NBC´s "Today Show" that aired on Tuesday. "The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." Obama was then asked by Savannah Guthrie how he could expect Democrats in red states to vote on this bill when he, as a Senator, didn´t have to himself.
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CBS: Saudi Man In Custody
Was Tackled By Bystanders
At Boston Marathon
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Business Insider, by Jim Edwards
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 8:16:52 PM
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The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS. Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this: There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run.
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