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8:10 PM ET, March 5, 2015

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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Just got this document from FNC's Catherine Herridge about Secretary Clinton and personal emails  —  Per FNC's Catherine Herridge...  Fox Exclusive: Clinton Internal Cable Forbids Use Personal Accounts  —  Fox News has exclusively obtained an internal 2011 State Department cable …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton breaks silence on email controversy  —  She calls on the State Department to release her emails.  —  After two days of silence, Hillary Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state late on Wednesday night …
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Clinton State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email  —  In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post.  According to a Foreign Policy report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a whithering evaluation from the State Department:
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton's Secret Staff Email System?  —  When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn't just an affront to Obama's vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats …
Discussion: Hot Air, VodkaPundit and neo-neocon
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton private email violated ‘clear-cut’ State Dept. rules  —  The policy warns against routine use of personal e-mail accounts.  —  The State Department has had a policy in place since 2005 to warn officials against routine use of personal e-mail accounts for government work …
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Democrats See a Familiar Pattern in the Clinton E-mail Story
Mark DrajemIndira Lakshmanan / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except Those She Didn't Hand Over
Discussion: US News and Bloomberg View
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
SCOOP: Hillary's State Dept. Forced The Resignation Of An Ambassador For Using Private E-Mail
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Roberts will uphold ObamaCare  —  In this “friend of the court” column, I suggest with 90 percent confidence that Chief Justice John Roberts, who remained virtually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, will join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: RedState
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Did John Roberts Tip His Hand?  —  The Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday in King v. Burwell featured thousands of words, dozens of provocative questions, two engaged and skillful lawyers—and one very striking silence.  Chief Justice John Roberts, usually among the most active questioners …
TMZ.com:
Harrison Ford — Plane Crashes ... Actor Seriously Injured  —  PLANE CRASHES  —  ... Actor Seriously Injured  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  4:30 PM PT - We've obtained intense audio of Harrison talking to the Santa Monica Airport control tower just moments after he'd taken off.
Fred Klonsky:
Rahm screams at mental health activists, “YOU'RE GONNA RESPECT ME!”  —  Photo montage of Rahm at Wicker Park incident: Kenzo Shibata.  — By Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle as posted on the Mental Health Movement's Facebook page.  —  Mental Health Movement members Debbie Delgado and Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Moe Lane
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:   Rahm Snaps at Mental-Health Advocates: 'You're Gonna Respect Me!'
Facebook:
Dear Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,  —  My name is Rebekah Gregory.  We don't really know each other and never will.  But over the last two years, I have seen your face not only in pictures, but in almost every one of my nightmares.  Moments before the first blast, your stupid backpack even brushed up against my arm …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  March 5, 2015 - Walker, Bush In Tight Race Among U.S. Republicans, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Clinton Sweeps Dem Field, With Biden In The Wings  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 18 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 16 percent …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Hillary Clinton email flap creates awkward GOP silence
Reuters:
Islamic State torches oil field east of Tikrit: witness  —  (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells in the Ajil field east of the city of Tikrit to try to hinder aerial attacks aimed at driving them from the oilfield, a witness and military source said.
Discussion: The Daily Banter
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Kathleen Matthews likely to run for Van Hollen's seat  —  Kathleen Matthews, Marriott International's executive vice president and chief global communications and public affairs officer, and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Capitol grounds sledding ban upheld  —  Washington (CNN)The Capitol Police killed the hopes and dreams of thousands of D.C.-area children (and at least a few dozen Hill staffers) Wednesday night when it reaffirmed a city ban on sledding on the Capitol grounds.
Discussion: Hit & Run and US News
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton:
Norton Asks for Kids to Be Able to Sled on Capitol Grounds with Snowstorm Coming Shortly
Tony Dejak / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Republicans Or Democrats More Likely To Survive The Apocalypse?  —  The polling firm YouGov released a poll Tuesday asking respondents: “How would you fare during the apocalypse?”  The results, and especially the partisan split, engendered a healthy debate among the FiveThirtyEight staff.
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Bloomberg Business:
Who's to blame when fraudsters use TurboTax to steal refunds?  —  When Jeff Parish signed on to his TurboTax account recently, he was surprised to see that the popular online filing service had already calculated a federal refund — to the tune of more than $5,000.  But there was a problem.
Discussion: Bloomberg View and FOX News Radio
Science:
Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs  —  1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.  —  2Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA.  —  3Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA.
Politico:
Mitch McConnell postpones Iran vote  —  Mitch McConnell is postponing a vote on the Senate's Iran legislation in the face of an expected Democratic filibuster.  —  The Senate majority leader has decided to delay a Tuesday vote on legislation that would allow Congress to approve or reject …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
 
 
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