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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Why the GOP Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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Today: Report: Stevens Worried About Al Qaeda , Sister of Former SEAL Glen Doherty Says He Always ‘Loved Adventure’ , 300 Afghans Protest France, U.S.
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 20, 2012
PHANTOM CLASS

Republicans once worked with Democrats to help the poor and middle class. But that was before the GOP was taken over by cynics and liars. The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky asks: what’s a fair-minded Democrat to do?

HIT LIST

Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador killed in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, was worried about his security and feared he was on an al Qaeda hit list in the months prior to his death, a source told CNN. On Wednesday, American intelligence officials speaking before Congress said that they considered the assault on the consulate a “terrorist attack.” Three other Americans were killed along with Stevens in the assault. CNN’s source said that Stevens was troubled by what he perceived as an increase in al Qaeda’s terrorist network within Libya.

IN MEMORY

Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL who was killed in Libya last week, was a horseback rider, skier, and loyal friend who believed that ‘a party shouldn’t stop on the day it starts.’ His sister Kate Quigley remembers her brother. As told to Abigail Pesta.

RAGE

Cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed and a trailer for a perhaps nonexistent film inspired around 300 people to riot and chant of “death to France, death to America” in Afghanistan on Thursday. Anti-Western protests in the Muslim world were sparked anew on Wednesday after a French publication ran caricatures of Islam’s holiest figure. While the demonstrations on Thursday were reportedly peaceful, similar protests on Monday took a violent turn when 1,000 people in the Afghan capital turned on police officers, injuring about 50 officers as they set cars ablaze.

FIASCO

After enduring harsh criticisms from prominent Republicans for his perceived role in the bungled ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-walking operation, Attorney General Eric Holder was cleared of wrongdoing on Wednesday. A report by the Department of Justice’s attorney general nevertheless took the mismanaged operation to the woodshed, saying that the agents and prosecutors involved engaged in “a series of misguided strategies, tactics, errors in judgment and management failures.” The operation ran from 2009 to 2011, and came to national attention after a Border agent, Brian Terry, died in a shootout at which guns sold in the operation were later found nearby.


PROTEST
National Strike Roils India
In opposition to economic reforms.
HORROR
U.N.: Children Tortured in Syria
Estimated 26,000 people have been killed in 18-month crackdown.
CHILD ABUSE
Report: Sandusky Was in Sex Ring
Says self-proclaimed “former child prostitute.”
TELL-ALL
Sources: Lewinsky Writing Book
Will spill secrets.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Burma Took Tips From ‘West Wing’
According to Hillary Clinton.
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