Frontline just tossed a few hand grenades at Buzzfeed and Breitbart.

While BuzzFeed did not publish all of the available footage of the event — a manager here noted that they were paying for each second of footage — they did post the entirety of what was available of Obama’s speech. While other cameras could have shot additional material from the event, no other footage of the event exists at WGBH.

And while there does appear to be editing in the footage available, that was almost certainly done in 1990. The Ten O’Clock News practice was to store completed segments as aired along with any relevant additional footage that might be useful in the future.

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A company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) is being called out for the lobbying dollars it spent in Washington while fighting to receive a more favorable tax treatment.

According to a report Tuesday on The Huffington Post, Berkshire company NetJets put north of $2.5 million toward lobbyists who were pushing measures to benefit a group of private jet firms. The findings followed a HuffPo analysis of lobbyist disclosure records. Thanks to one part of the legislation, the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act, NetJets and other fractionally owned jet companies “will pay lower taxes over the next four years than they do today,” HuffPo reports. Because of the law, the federal government will miss out on around $25 million in revenue during the next three years from the jet firms who will benefit from the tax changes, the report says.

Now, NetJets is no different from hundreds, even thousands of other companies and groups that have lobbyists in the nation’s capital. In some of these cases, the lobbyists are looking for ways to help their clients pay lower taxes or otherwise gain financially through the goings-on in Congress.

What is different is that, in this particular case, a company under the control of Buffett’s Omaha-based firm is being spotlighted.

I say cut them off…..

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress was moving Tuesday to overturn a court decision and reaffirm that the government has the right to impose higher tariffs on goods from China and other countries that subsidize their exports to the United States.

The House was expected to pass the bill Tuesday and send it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Senate approved it Monday on a voice vote with no debate.

The speedy and bipartisan congressional action came after a federal appellate court ruled in December that the Commerce Department did not have the authority to levy the punitive tariffs because Congress had never explicitly given the agency that right.

The Commerce Department has been applying these “countervailing” duties since 2007. The legislation ensures that 24 existing higher tariff orders and six pending investigations against imports from China and Vietnam will continue to be valid.

The duties are allowed under World Trade Organization rules to counteract unfair subsidies used by countries, such as China and Vietnam, that have yet to fully adopt market economies.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, said that since 2007 countervailing duties have protected some 80,000 jobs across the country. “China doesn’t get a free pass to violate the rules at the expense of American jobs,” he said.

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – France is prepared to switch allegiance from Spain to Luxembourg in the battle for a seat on the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, according to diplomatic sources, an appointment that would tilt the balance towards anti-inflation traditionalists.

Spain, Luxembourg and Slovenia are in a three-horse race to replace Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo when the Spaniard leaves the ECB at the end of May.

Since the ECB flooded banks with cheap money for a second time last week, some of its policymakers led by Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann have expressed alarm that the dramatic loosening of lending policy will fuel imbalances in the euro zone and stoke inflationary pressures.

The ECB hawks’ bargaining position could be further bolstered if Luxembourg’s central bank chief, Yves Mersch, wins the race.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy backed Spain to keep its seat on the ECB board before Madrid put forward the ECB’s top lawyer Antonio Sainz de Vicuna as its candidate.

Since then the veteran Mersch, who has one of the strictest anti-inflation stances among ECB policymakers, has entered the race for the post which manages the ECB’s day-to-day business.

Sources said France was now backing him rather than Sainz de Vicuna as part of a grand deal on top jobs at European institutions, which could see France bag the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

ECB board members are chosen by euro zone governments rather than the central bank itself. A decision may be made as soon as Monday at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers before being rubber stamped by heads of government at a later date.

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, March 5, 6:39 PM

WASHINGTON — The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the upcoming G-8 economic summit in Chicago, and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland.

It was an unusually late location change for a large and highly scripted international summit and came with little explanation from the White House. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel — the former White House chief of staff who personally lobbied President Barack Obama to hold the summit in Chicago — was informed only hours before the official announcement.

White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor simply said that Camp David, the rustic retreat in the mountains of Maryland, was a setting that would allow for more intimate discussions among the G-8 leaders. He said security and the possibility of protests were not factors in the decision, noting that Obama would still host the NATO summit in his hometown of Chicago from May 20-21.