From the “three amigos” in the Republican Party. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte continued their attacks against our UN Ambassador Susan Rice on Tuesday after the three met with her in a closed-door meeting. Republicans are accusing Rice of purposefully misleading the American people in the days after the Benghazi attack when she gave several interviews based on CIA intelligence that’s now been proven to be untrue. Senator McCain and others contend that Rice was involved in a White House conspiracy to cover up the fact that the Benghazi attacks may have been an act of terrorism.

In reality though, the “fog of war” is most likely responsible for the CIA getting intelligence wrong in the days after the attack. But just like they’ve done with the President, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Van Jones – all African Americans – Republicans are smearing the reputation of Susan Rice to scuttle her potential nomination as Secretary of State. Curiously, McCain and Graham were nowhere to be found with Colin Powell and Condi Rice lied to Congress and the UN about weapons of mass destruction in the lead up to war in Iraq.

This is all manufactured hyperventilation. Republicans want John Kerry to be Secretary of State instead of Susan Rice, so that Kerry will have to leave his Massachusetts Senate seat, and Republican oligarchs like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers can buy it back for Scott Brown. This is nothing more than machine politics by Republicans who have no problem exploiting a tragedy overseas that killed a U.S. ambassador.

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Goldman Bets Against the Assets It Sold to AIG" by Addison Wiggin.

Article: "Goldman Sachs Involvement in the European sovereign debt crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Canada's Carney named as Bank of England chief" by David Milliken and Randall Palmer.

Article: "Levin Repeatedly References "Sh**ty Deal" at Goldman Hearing" by Brian Montopoli.

Article: "The Goldman Sachs Project to take over Europe nearly complete" by gjohnsit.

Article: "Greek leaders locked in talks as they bid for coalition deal to secure 130bn euro bailout" by James Chapman.

Article: "Agenda 21: The Latest Sleight of Hand Trick by Corporate Elite" by Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks.

Article: "Trader Alessio Rastani To BBC: 'Governments Don't Rule The World, Goldman Sachs Rules The World'" by Jillian Berman.

Article: "What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe" by Stephen Foley.

Article: "Goldman sued for $1.07 billion over Timberwolf CDO" by Narayanan Somasundaram and Jonathan Stempel.

Article: " Greek Debt Crisis: How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt" by Beat Balzli.

Video: "Now Ireland is Nationalizing the Banks".

Video: "Hartmann: Greg Palast - Goldman Sux!".

Video: "Foreclosure Big Money for Banks ".

Video: "One World Government Ahead - FOX Anti New World Order Segment.

Video: "One World Government- Jerome Corsi Lays Out The Agenda".

Video: "Chuck Norris - Obama Establishing a One World Government".

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Book: " What Would Jefferson Do?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Photos Show Walmart Apparel at Site of Deadly Factory Fire in Bangladesh" by Josh Eidelson.

Article: "Bangladeshi Workers Wanted Those Jobs Says Fox News" by Egberto Willies.

Article: "Former Florida GOP leaders say voter suppression was reason they pushed new election law" by Dara Kam and John Lantigua.

Article: "Florida Republicans Admit Voter Suppression Was The Goal Of New Election Laws" by Aviva Shen.

Article: "The Top 4 Whoppers Norquist Tells To Keep Republicans From Defecting" by Igor Volsky.

Article: "Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Attorney General, Agrees With Conspiracy Theory On Obama Win (LISTEN)" by Paige Lavender.

Article: "AIDS activists arrested in nude protest at House Speaker John Boehner's office" by AP.

Hour Two: "Tiny tots with their machine guns all aglow"
- Noel Flasterstein, Attorney & host-The Gun Show.

Article: "Gun club owner: ‘Holiday tradition’ for kids to hold machine guns in Santa photos" by David Edwards.

Article: "Declaration of Independence". "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislatures."

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "Female soldiers sue to lift combat ban" by Reuters.

Article: "5th Amendment".

Article: "14th Amendment", 1868.

Article: "Court hears of Bradley Manning's treatment in custody" by Ed Pilkington.

Hour Three: Will religion kill Obamacare?
- Ethan Rome, Health Care for America Now (HCAN)

Article: "Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Against Obamacare On Religious Grounds" by Sahil Kapur.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Law: "Religious Freedom Restoration Act", 1993.

I'm too sexy alert: "China paper carries Onion Kim Jong-un 'heart-throb' spoof" by BBC.

The good: Tom Ricks: "Fox News Abruptly Ends Interview After Guest Calls Out The Network For Hyping Benghazi Scandal" by Hamed Aleaziz and Hayes Brown.

The bad: "Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Attorney General, Agrees With Conspiracy Theory On Obama Win (LISTEN)" by Paige Lavender.

The very, very ugly: "Far-right politician condemned in Hungary for demanding a list of Jews who pose a 'national security risk'".

Article: "Legalized abortion and crime effect" (Donohue-Levitt hypothesis).

Book: "Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.

Article: "1972 Rockefeller Commission on Population and the American Future" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Article: "How Increasing Infrastructure Spending Provides A Major Boost To Our Economy" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Police Remove Congressman-Elect Grayson From Local Walmart For Union Agitating" by Tom Tillison.

Hour Two: "Conversations With Great Minds"
- William Hogeland, Author-"Founding Finance"

Hour Three: When is enough...enough?
- Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, "the minimalists" / authors, latest is Live A Meaningful Life

Fix the filibuster
- Senator Jeff Merkley

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