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4:55 PM ET, June 17, 2014

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Washington Post:
U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid  —  An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on Sept. 11, 2012.  The alleged ringleader in the attack has been captured by involving Special Operations forces.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Suggests Obama Captured Benghazi Suspect To Boost Hillary's Book Tour  —  Hillary Clinton in 2012, at one of her last events as Secretary of State  —  A Fox News anchor suggested that President Obama captured one of the alleged architects of the September 2012 attack …
Allen West / Allen B. West:
Squirrel!  Benghazi suspect conveniently captured to deflect attention from all the other nightmares  —  Is it a case of “wag the dog” and a convenient shift from the countless evident failures of Obama or something credible?  Not so sure...  Politico has just reported that American special operators …
Philip Ewing / Politico:   U.S. captures suspect in deadly Benghazi attack
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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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Friends Don't Let Friends Read Dana Milbank  —  Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post who serially exaggerates or distorts what he writes about.  It's just what he does.  This has been established so many times by so many people that it's disappointing to see he is still given prominent perch …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel  —  Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series of gatherings to draw attention to the Benghazi controversy.  —  But this one took an unexpected turn.
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Muslim Student Gets Mocked At Heritage Benghazi Panel
Elianayjohnson / National Review:
IRS Has Lost More E-mails . . .  It's not just Lois Lerner's e-mails.  The Internal Revenue Service says it can't produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according to two Republicans investigating the scandal.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The great unraveling  —  In one of the PBS series that engages American history (was it The American Experience?  Frontline?  I don't remember and can't find it online), the producers took a look back at the Carter administration.  The show I'm thinking of would have been broadcast some 20 years ago.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Barack Obama golfs while the Middle East burns
Charles Lipson / Chicago Tribune:   Downward spiral of Obama's presidency
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Rick Perry's ‘Groundhog Day’  —  “Boys, I am going to bless this meal,” Rick Perry said, ducking his head and folding his hands under his chin.  We were sitting at Nate 'n Al, the Jewish Deli in Beverly Hills, and the governor of Texas was looking every bit the regular customer in a tight black polo shirt and designer glasses.
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer: Unlike Blacks Or Hispanics, ‘Traditional’ Population Isn't Growing (VIDEO)  —  State House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, said that the “traditional” voting bloc of his home state wasn't growing like as minority populations in an interview he did in 2012.
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
D'Souza baffles Megyn Kelly  —  Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza baffled Megyn Kelly on Monday night with an analogy that compared the United States to a child molesting father.  —  Appearing on Fox's “The Kelly File” to promote his new book, “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Laughs at Dinesh D'Souza: So You're Saying America Is a ‘Child Molester’?
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story
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Richard Rubin / Bloomberg:
Wealthy Clintons Use Trusts to Limit Estate Tax They Back  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton have long supported an estate tax to prevent the U.S. from being dominated by inherited wealth.  That doesn't mean they want to pay it.  —  To reduce the tax pinch, the Clintons are using financial …
Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
Democrat says he's leading black GOTV effort for Cochran  —  A Democratic political operative says he is working with Mississippi Conservatives PAC to drum up votes for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran.  —  James “Scooby Doo” Warren said he has put together a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) plan and is “putting it in place across the whole state.”
ThinkProgress:
Missouri Town Discovers People Don't Like Vacationing Around People Openly Carrying Firearms  —  Turns out, people don't find it particularly relaxing to be surrounded by strangers carrying guns.  —  The Lake Ozark, Missouri Board of Alderman voted last week to ban gun owners from openly carrying firearms …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
FLASHBACK: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq?  —  The former Bush administration official is perhaps the worst person to give advice about the current crisis in Iraq—but that hasn't stopped him from speaking out.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Publishing Source: Hillary Book a ‘Bomb’  —  In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a “bomb.”  The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.
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Washington Post:
Why Paul Ryan took a pass on running for House majority leader
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Facebook Releases Slingshot for Self-Destructing Selfies
Discussion: The Verge and The Week
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Limits of Partisan Realignment in the South
Agence France-Presse:
Pope tells super rich, bankers to find some ethics
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Economy May Be improving. Worker Pay Isn't.
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Rand Paul: How to end the NSA dragnet
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Hill
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Iraq poll: President Obama backed over John McCain
Discussion: CNN
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service
Kristen Soltis Anderson / The Daily Beast:
The Cantor Prediction Is Part of a Pattern—GOP Pollsters Stink
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
WH to honor young illegal immigrants