A.M. Links: Congress Unveils $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill, Declassified Documents Declare Assault Benghazi “Terrorist Attack,” Israel Wants John Kerry To Leave the Country Alone

• Congress unveiled a
  $1.1 trillion spending bill that would prevent another
  government shutdown while boosting funding levels slightly for
  military and domestic programs – but not for Obamacare.
• 
  Declassified documents show that top military and civilian
  officials briefed President Obama on the assault on Benghazi
  minutes after it occurred, and described it to him as a “terrorist
  attack.”
• Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon wants Secretary of State
  John Kerry to
  leave Israel alone.
• A December surge in Obamacare sign-ups helped push enrollment
  for the last three months of 2013 to over 2.1
  million.
• Two former California police officers were found
  not guilty of all charges in the brutal beating death of
  schizophrenic homeless man Kelly Thomas.
• Russia has declared Radio Free Europe journalist David Satter
  persona non grata, making him the
  first American reporter to be banned from the country since the
  collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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