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The weekend’s media coverage on Benghazi brought in some notable quotes and points of interest: Petraeus: talking points "essentially useless" When the Benghazi talking points were being reviewed and revised by other agencies after the September 2012 attack, former CIA Director David Petraeus indicated that the revised...

David Gregory of Meet the Press sat down Sunday morning with House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who has led the state department’s review of Benghazi, to discuss the investigation into the aftermath of the September 11th, 2012 attack on...

Since the rise of the Tea Party movement in the spring of 2009, the movement has been the target of Democratic politicians and supportive media. The Tea Party was called un-American and terrorists for showing up at health care town halls and voicing an opinion. The Department...

There was a useful fiction about Barack Obama. His cabinet would consist of a "team of rivals." After this week's hearings, I doubt we'll hear the term again regarding this administration. So now we know who took the terrorist attack references out. Next shoe: who put the...

Benghazi exposed to be a big White House and State Department lie. The IRS caught targeting Tea Party groups and those "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights." Republicans ready to pass amnesty for law breakers. There will be no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I'm taking the...

This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some "low level" employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties' tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON (AP)...

"I hoped I would never see this day, but I feared I would."...

Throwing CIA under bus never works, ask every prior President--> payback leaks

— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 10, 2013

Carney: Should we have overruled the intelligence community?We relied on what they thought.Fighting words.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 10, 2013

"These were intelligence community talking points" -Jay Carney

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013

Really risky strategy of the WH to keep pointing fingers at the CIA

— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 10, 2013

WH is playing w/ fire passing buck to the CIA on stuff like this, b/c intel community can only be kicked around for so long. #leaks

— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) May 10, 2013

Jay Carney has been trying to suggest that the CIA made all the edits. Now he admits they made the edits on suggestions from State & WH.

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 10, 2013