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• FISA 702 or PATRIOT Act 215? Questions on the Guardian/Wapo surveillance scoops

  
  The Glenn Greenwald/Guardian story about a memo leaked to Greenwald about the NSA obtaining a court order to seize Verizon phone records, was topped by a Washington Post article stating that the NSA had “back door” access to 9 different Internet providers, including Microsoft, Google and Apple (think [...]

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• Remainders: Comey don’t play that

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  A flashback to a post on an old version of TRR, regarding one James Comey, soon to be nominated to be the next director of the FBI.

  Meanwhile, ricin was sent to Mayor Bloomberg and to the head of his gun reform organization. The same poison was previously [...]

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• This week’s Herald column: Barack Obama’s summer of the shark

  In this week’s column, I tackle Washington’s “scandal” season… 

  A clip:

  We have officially entered the “summer of the shark” phase of the Obama administration — where nearly any political event is liable to be swept up in the rip currents of the Beltway media’s favorite theme: scandal.

  In the local news [...]

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• WATCH: Stephen Colbert’s brilliant Benghazi, ABC #mediafail takedown

  Stephen Colbert did a takedown of Jonathan Karl’s bogus Benghazi scoop, and really, of all of us in media, and it was pure Genius.

  The Colbert Report
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  H/T Crooks and Liars. And I associate myself with [...]

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• A Washington ‘whodunit’: who fed bogus Benghazi ‘emails’ to the media?

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  **UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom of the post (I know it’s long…) for a bit of TRR sleuthing…

  The revelation this week that emails provided to key congressional committees by the White House in response to Benghazi-hysteria among Republicans, may have been altered before being leaked to the conservative Weekly [...]

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• This week’s Herald column: Investigate the IRS? Sure! Let’s start with the Bush years

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  Cartoon by Jim Morin (see Jim’s work here)

  This week, I agree with those on the right who want to investigate the IRS for abuse of Americans when it comes to how it treats tax exempt status for organizations. So … can we start with what the Bush-era IRS [...]

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• Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …

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  Gallup (ok, it’s Gallup… ) found in 2010 that 78 percent tea partiers self-identified as  Republicans (62 percent “conservative Republicans,” 16 percent “moderate/liberal Republicans…”

  Tea party support is 9 in 10 among Republicans … less than 50 percent among everybody else. From an ABC-commissioned poll in [...]

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• Yes, I called Republican Benghazi hunters ’9/11 truthers’

  … because they are, Blanche. They AHRE in that chair.

  Here’s the clip from Wednesday’s Politics Nation, in which I appeared with Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Rev.

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  And by the way …

  The reason Mike [...]

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• Joy on ‘Meet the Press’ May 5, 2013

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  I was on with former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the National Review‘s Rich Lowry. Fun, fun, fun!

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  Part two after the jump …

  In part two, we discussed gay rights, and [...]

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• This week’s Herald column: New America held hostage, by Old America

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  Photo from Z Magazine

  They aren’t going to secede …

  A clip from this week’s column:

  There have been so many essays written dissecting the state of conservatism, the notion that it is in decline has become cliché. But decline doesn’t mean disappearance.

  The political place where most conservatives live, the [...]

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