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5:55 PM ET, May 6, 2013

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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can't go” to Benghazi during attacks  —  The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden …
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Fox News:
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say  —  On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Behind the Scenes at Fox  —  A few days before the presidential election last November, Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, ordered that Geraldo Rivera's microphone be cut off after Mr. Rivera angrily defended the Obama administration against charges levied by others on Fox.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
They've Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses  —  Fox News' morning show, Fox & Friends, is taking a surprisingly skeptical approach to GOP claims that the Obama administration and the entire U.S. government engaged in a massive cover-up of the attacks …
The Lead with Jake Tapper:   Former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya: U.S. military assets were told to stand down
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Chaffetz: We were ‘misled every step of the way’ on Benghazi
Discussion: Hit & Run and Fox News
Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
Al Qaeda Headquarters in Libya
Discussion: Via Meadia
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
U.S. Military in Tripoli Ordered Not to Go to Benghazi
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Hot Air
Bloomberg:
Gore Is Romney-Rich With $200 Million After Bush Defeat  —  In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows.  —  The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets …
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Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:
Al Gore's Golden Years
Discussion: TVNewser and E2-Wire
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
None Dare Call It Treason  —  As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association's new president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e. …
Discussion: Mother Jones and BuzzFeed
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Sara Fischer / CNN:
NRA has record conference turnout, new president
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Heritage Foundation:
The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer  —  By Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D.  —  Executive Summary  —  Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers.
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Learns: 'Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh's Show'  —  As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show.  The company's CEO has blamed ad revenue losses …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh may leave Cumulus
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Syria Is Not Iraq  —  IN the search for an American response to the civil war in Syria, the favorite guidebook seems to be our ill-fated adventure in Iraq.  We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority.  We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing for foreign patronage.
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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Rick Perry compares rejecting LGBT people to fighting slavery  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Sunday that he believes rejecting LGBT people is similar to fighting slavery during the pre-Civil War era.  —  Appearing on the Family Research Council's program “Stand With Scouts Sunday,” …
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Justin Bieber Breaks Istanbul Concert For Muslim Call To Prayer  —  Justin Bieber has had what might be politely termed an awkward spring so far, whether he was joking about whether Anne Frank would have been a fan of his—an idea brilliantly satirized in the New Yorker by Yoni Brenner …
Discussion: New Yorker and Weasel Zippers
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun  —  “Alright.  One...two...”  —  Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape.  A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Twitter is ready to be a true news operation  —  Twitter is hiring a ‘head of news’ in its bid to be even more indispensable to global media, but will it work?  —  There are fewer and fewer jobs in journalism, but last week an ultimate job was posted.  Twitter, fast becoming the basic source …
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up  —  Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is “leading to disaster”.
Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:
Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left  —  The abortion clinic of alleged killer Kermit Gosnell was not illegal.  But any talk of more government regulation unleashes an NRA-style assault from the abortion rights contingent, says Kirsten Powers.  —  What should we learn from the Kermit Gosnell trial?
Associated Press:
Germany Arrests 93-Year-Old Alleged Former Auschwitz Guard  —  BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard who once lived in the United States on suspicion of accessory to murder.  —  Hans Lipschis was taken into custody Monday …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Sanford has momentum in SC-1  —  PPP's final poll of the special election in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District finds a race that's too close to call, with Republican Mark Sanford leading Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch 47-46.  The 1 point lead for Sanford represents a 10 point reversal …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Background Checks Bill Would Get A ‘Couple More Votes’ Now: Harry Reid  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats believe that they have several new votes in favor of a bill that would expand background checks for gun buyers, after weeks in which those who opposed the legislation faced strong political backlash at home.
 
 
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Terri Judd / The Independent:
Inside Guantánamo: An unprecedented rebellion leaves a notorious detention centre in crisis
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. Mike Rogers pushed for FBI chief
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Kevin Bohn / CNN:
$1 million raised after gun vote by Giffords' group
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
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Discussion: Feministing
Boston Herald:
Frustrated embalmer wants Deval Patrick to intervene
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
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Stories behind Robin Hood's 12-12-12 concert
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
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David Jackson / USA Today:
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