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Date Sent: 2013-05-24
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, May 24, 2013 |
Confiscated Cell Phone Footage of Beating Death Released; Footage from 2nd Phone Deleted
"War is a Racket" - by Major Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)(Glenn
Jacobs' narration) -- No Taxes? There's an App For That! -- Trayvon
Martin texts, photos: Might they change Zimmerman trial? -- China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn -- Warrantless Drone Surveillance Banned in Tennessee -- Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas -- Jihad murderer became "obsessed" with Islam as a schoolboy -- “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic -- Utility Stocks Flash Crash At The Opening Bell -- GOLDMAN: 'The Bond
Sell-Off: It’s For Real' -- 'How Happy Are You Guys' At Fox News
Because Of The Obama Scandals? -- KYLE BASS: The 'Macro Tourists'
Are Responsible For Last Night's Big Plunge In Japan -- America Is
Turning Into ‘Blade Runner With Food Stamps’ -- ANALYST: Japan Just
Had Its 'Lehman-Like' Moment -- Study: Hospitals Making A Killing On
Hospital Infections -- Platinum and Palladium: A Fundamental Shift -- An Interplanetary GPS
Using Pulsar Signals -- Israeli "Pillar of Cloud" War Crimes
AZ: Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for
Saturday, May 25th, 8 a.m. - Noon PDT; Fundraiser raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Confiscated Cell Phone Footage of Beating Death Released; Footage from 2nd Phone Deleted
05-23-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Maria Melendez had given the dispatcher her phone number, which the deputies used to call her at 2 a.m., asking if she had uploaded the video to the internet yet. When she said no, they told her, “that’s good,” and “don’t you dare do it,”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
05-22-2013
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www.youtube.com
This is the one and only official Adam Kokesh legal fund. Adam’s business team, his friends, other activists and his selected public relations agent Shield Mutual are operating this fund because we need funds to hire a lawyer and Adam obviously canno
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
"War is a Racket" - by Major Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)(Glenn Jacobs' narration)
05-28-2012
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LexRex
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. "I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers." (Publisher Recommended)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
No Taxes? There's an App For That!
05-23-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
There has been an angry uproar because Apple has hardly paid any extortion fees in the last 4 years on its billions in profits. Why this warrants an angry uproar and not a giant cheer for them for not supporting criminal governments is beyond us.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Father of ADHD Calls Himself a Liar
5/23/2013
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Bradlee Dean
ADHD is a fictitious disease that has never been proven. It is pushed by doctors and drug companies for money and starting children on a life of drug addiction.
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Kevin Banet
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News Link • Gun Rights
Trayvon Martin texts, photos: Might they change Zimmerman trial?
05-23-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Trayvon Martin texts, photos " all unflattering " were posted online by George Zimmerman's defense team. They may be ruled inadmissible in court. But they are already making the rounds in the court of public opinion, ahead of the trial.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn
05-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Could the global tide in support of GMOs be turning? A new report reveals that the formerly pro-GMO Chinese government, one of the largest consumers of GMO food crops in the world, is beginning to crack down on GM corn shipments from the US that have
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drones
Warrantless Drone Surveillance Banned in Tennessee
05-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At this stage in the ‘drone game,’ the feds are working hard behind the scenes to get states to operate the drones for them.
In fact, the primary engine behind the expansion of drone surveillance being carried out by states and local communities i
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Energy
Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas
05-23-2013
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http://www.extremetech.com
If Rossi and Focardi’s cold fusion technology turns out to be real " if the E-Cat really has 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline " then the world will change, very, very quickly. Stay tuned
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Jihad murderer became "obsessed" with Islam as a schoolboy
05-23-2013
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UK Daily Mail
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary was last night accused of having 'blood on his hands' after it emerged killer Michael Adebolajo was radicalized at the hands of his extremist group.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Bioterrorism
“Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic
05-23-2013
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Farm Wars
This is a must-read article to understand how genetic engineering started and where it is going. Pay special attention to the section titled “GMO as a weapon of biowarfare?”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Utility Stocks Flash Crash At The Opening Bell
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
This morning, when New York markets opened at 9:30 AM, shares of American Electric Power and Nextera Energy, two big electric utilities, briefly plunged 54% and 62% respectively.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GOLDMAN: 'The Bond Sell-Off: It’s For Real'
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
U.S. Treasury yields bottomed out in July 2012 after three decades of a steady grind lower.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Lyft, A Year-Old Startup That Helps Strangers Share Car Rides
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Lyft.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
KYLE BASS: The 'Macro Tourists' Are Responsible For Last Night's Big Plunge In Japan
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
At the beginning of April, Kyle Bass went on CNBC and slammed the "macro tourists" that were driving up Japanese stock prices.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Is Turning Into ‘Blade Runner With Food Stamps’
05-23-2013
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Business Insider
Walter Russell Mead outlines two possible futures for middle-class Americans:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Study: Hospitals Making A Killing On Hospital Infections
05-23-2013
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jonathanturley.org
I have long been amazed by the rate of hospital injuries from preventable bloodstream infections.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bobby McFerrin plays... the audience!
05-23-2013
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ted.com
In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
The LRC Blog
05-23-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Lew, the publication today of Murray Rothbard’s hilarious and insightful 1982 keynote address to the World Libertarian International has left me absolutely awestruck.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Robert Redford Silent Movie Surprise Hit of Cannes
05-23-2013
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showbiz411.com
The surprise hit of Cannes? Robert Redford is so terrific in a “silent” film here that he could easily win the Best Actor award.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope
05-23-2013
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newscientist.com
After a series of false dawns, the world's first commercial wave farm is to open soon. Will this be a fresh start for the technology?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Architecture
Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
05-23-2013
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ted.com
Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Obama Administration
Revenue Budget Projections
05-22-2013
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BATR
The essential questions that persist about a stalled economy and a suffering middle class still are unanswered. In addition, the premise that raising taxes, especially on the besieged tax payer, is a productive method to close the gap on public spend
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
RAND PAUL: Shame on Senate for harassing Apple
05-22-2013
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Rare.Us
When the U.S. Senate held an investigatory hearing on “Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code” recently, a subcommittee summoned an Apple corporation spokesman to appear.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Should the Law Governing the War on Terror Be Changed?
05-22-2013
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Antiwar.Com/Ivan Eland
A move is afoot in Congress to change the 2001 law that kicked off what became the “war on terror” (although the Obama administration has dropped the now politically incorrect term).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
British soldier beheaded on busy London street in terror attack
05-22-2013
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UK Telegraph
As they attacked the soldier, one of the assailants shouted “Allahu akbar”, or God is Great, according to the BBC, while another witness said they appeared to pray next to the body as if the solder was a “sacrifice”.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Bitcoin
Liberty-focused non-profits find a friend in Bitcoin #Bitcoin2013
05-22-2013
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Coindesk.Com
Representatives from three non-profit organizations that accept donations in bitcoins say their groups’ freedom- and peace-focused missions mesh with the Bitcoin ethos.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
05-22-2013
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www.antiwar.com
The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • 3D Printing
All-Natural 3D Printers: Salt and Wood Can Be Used
05-22-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The fast-growing field of 3D printing has been gaining a lot of attention. But one intriguing project coming out of the University of California Berkeley aims to use natural resources like salt and wood to reduce 3D printing costs.
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News Link • Homeland Security
FBI Agent Kills Man After Questioning Him About the Boston Marathon Bombing
05-22-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
The FBI only said that an agent "encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased," but has not offered any other details. Update: The FBI now says that suspect became "violent" during questioning, which
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Way We Think about Cancer Must Evolve
05-22-2013
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Wired.com
Right now, as you read these words, your life is in danger. Somewhere within the vast self-contained micro-universe known as you, in one and possibly more of your trillions of cells, something is going wrong.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
05-22-2013
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Wired.com
The Robocoin is an ATM for Bitcoins, and for a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, it dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world’s most popular digital currency.
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News Link • Police State
Rule of Law No Longer Exists in America " Shahid Buttar (video)
05-22-2013
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Next News Network
Gari Franchi interviews Shahid Buttar on the government that rules America and what--if anything--can be done to restore our liberty. I listened to this soon after waking up this morning and was blown away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
San Diego Mayor urges jury nullification
05-22-2013
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Daily Paul.com
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is urging jury nullification in medical MJ case:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary, intensifying his standoff with federal
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Back
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
What Warren Buffett once called "financial weapons of mass destruction" are firing again, with securitization and shadow banking at post-financial crisis highs.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston bombing suspect's friend Ibragim Todashev killed in FBI shootout
05-22-2013
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CBS News
The FBI has not commented on the relationship between Ibragim Todashev and Tsarnaev but confirmed that Todashev died in the shootout and that he was being interviewed in connection with the April 15 attack.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Mindblowing Aerial Photos Reveal The Utter Destruction In Moore, Oklahoma
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
The deadly tornado struck Moore County in Oklahoma Monday has killed at least 24 people, as it left a mighty wake of destruction across the suburban landscape.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Cop Panics Over Cell Phone Camera, Thinking it Could be a Gun
05-21-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A California cop who was being video recorded by a smartphone said she was in fear for her life because the phone could have possibly been a gun, marking at least the 4th time this year a cop uttered those nonsensical words.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oregon Rodeo “No Video Allowed” Policy Applies only to Out-of-Towners
05-21-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Officials at the Eastern Oregon rodeo where an activist was arrested were very clear about their policy forbidding videography. The restrictions applied to everybody except the “good folks who want to film their relatives or friends.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill
05-21-2013
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Washington Post
A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
05-21-2013
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Washington Post
A close reading of recently released government e-mails sent during the editing process, and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies, reveal Petraeus’s early role and ambitions in going well beyond the committee’s request,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas
05-21-2013
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National Journal
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
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