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One of the big bits of news to come out of the May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing was the claim that “whistleblower” Gregory Hicks felt he had been “effectively demoted” within the State Department for speaking out about the September 2012 attacks on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi. Hicks’ attorney,  Victoria Toensing , is making the right-wing media rounds, telling radio host Steve Malzberg that Hicks was forced out of his post in Libya after the State Department told him he could either take a desk job or lose his job altogether

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In coverage of a May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing, conservatives are pushing new myths about the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on a U.S.

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Fox News ignored economic history to forward the absurd claim that former President George W. Bush exercised “fiscal discipline.” On the April 25 edition of Fox & Friends , former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andy Card claimed that President Bush “probably has the best track record of any modern president in terms of fiscal discipline,” a statement that went unchallenged by the Fox & Friends co-hosts: But facts undermine Card’s claim. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the drivers of current and future public debt are policies from the Bush presidency: A recent study from Harvard researcher Linda J

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As hunger strikes at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay increasingly become a human rights concern, a new exhaustive report from a group of bipartisan former officials, and medical and legal experts declares that U.S. treatment of detainees after September 11, 2001 constituted torture

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The military has begun a transition to efficient and renewable energy. The Army is proceeding with its “ Net Zero Energy ” initiative, which means that they will aim to produce as much energy (and water, and waste) as they use. Cost and reliability are the primary reasons, but cutting carbon pollution is one of the outcomes. Last month, the head of U.S

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Fox News gave credence to debunked conspiracy theories surrounding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, presenting outlandish fears about the treaty’s potential effects on domestic gun policy as legitimate reason to oppose it.

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Chief Justice John Roberts won the endorsement of Rush Limbaugh by comparing marriage equality to forced friendship, an analogy the radio host called “dead on right.” During oral arguments Tuesday over a constitutional amendment in California that bans same-sex marriages, Roberts asked Ted Olson, a lawyer arguing in support of marriage equality, why civil unions were an insufficient middle ground.  As Olson explained the importance of the marriage label, Roberts  interjected : Sure. If you tell – if you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, this is my friend, but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend.

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Fox News hosts speculated that uniforms made in Mexico for the U.S. Border Patrol could end up in the wrong hands and ultimately fuel situations similar to those in Afghanistan — where Taliban fighters wearing Afghan security or coalition uniforms have launched attacks on U.S

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This American Life  host Ira Glass is defending a recent report on his program in the face of criticism from those who say it painted a false picture of disability programs. On March 22,  Media Matters   detailed  how the public radio segment, which also ran on the NPR programs  Planet Money  and  All Things Considered , promoted several myths to criticize Supplemental Security Insurance over the program’s rate of growth, hurdles towards qualification, and successes it has had in reducing poverty. The story drew further criticism from Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director  Dean Baker , who said it “got some of the basics wrong,” and University of Connecticut law professor  James Kwak , who said it suffers from “facile extrapolation from the individual story to national policy.” But in a  statement  to International Business Times, Glass stood by his program’s work.

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Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson pushed the right-wing media’s false claim that an increase in government employment made up the bulk of job growth during the economic recovery . The private sector, however, has added millions of jobs since 2009 while the public sector has shed hundreds of thousands of them

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