The Incredible Shrinking Economy, White House Juggles CIA Bungle, Cuomo Has an Offer You Can't Refuse: P.M. Links

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  Pat Arnow

  About that recovering economy…U.S. gross domestic product fell by 1 percent in the first three months of 2014.

• The White House is, again, in damage-control mode after that accidental outing of the CIA's Afghanistan station chief to the media.
• Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki looks like a sacrificial political offering as Democrats facing election challenges line up with the GOP for a shot at the scandal-plagued official.
• You know that missing Malaysian passenger jet that just won't leave the headlines? Australian officials say they've been looking in the wrong place.
• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he'll campaign against state senators who don't vote for taxpayer funding of statewide political campaigns. Campaigns like his, presumably.
• Saying he's been punished for resisting pressure to profile young drivers and meet quotas for issuing traffic tickets, a New Jersey cop filed suit against the Mendham Township Police Department.

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