Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: Hillary's Benghazi 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out

Today: Fact-Checking Dan Brown's 'Inferno': 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications , Mayer Hints Porn Can Stay on Tumblr , Fox News Reporter Could Face Charges May 20, 2013 EXCLUSIVE 1. The Benghazi Fall Guy In his first interview, the only official at the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the Benghazi attacks tells The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin that he's been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton's team. Read it at The Daily Beast Historical Fiction 2. Fact-Checking Dan Brown Bestselling author Dan Brown likes to claim that the historical events in his novels are "fact," but how much is true? Noah Charney finds 10 mistakes and oversimplifications in the new book Inferno. Read it at The Daily Beast It's Cool 3. Mayer Hints Porn Can Stay on Tumblr Yahoo might have just upped its cool quotient—or at least CEO Marissa Mayer did. Speaking to investors on Monday morning, Mayer indicated that X-rated content on Tumblr would not be scrapped in Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of the media network. She stressed that Yahoo wants to "let Tumblr be Tumblr," even if that means Tumblr content is "not as brand safe as the rest of Yahoo," and that the tech giant would focus on balancing user and advertiser interests. In other words, Yahoo will ensure that certain marketers' brands won't end up on accounts like "Red Hot Porn" and "Secretary Sex." She also indicated that some of the NSFW content—or at least the network's diversity of content—is "exciting" and will be a good thing for Yahoo because it allows the company to "reach a far wider audience."   Read it at The Huffington Post BIG BROTHER 4. Fox News Reporter Could Face Charges Note to the Justice Department: Fox News was already paranoid, so spying on one of the network's reporters might just feed into that. According to The Washington Post, the Department of Justice examined Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails, phone records, and visits to the State Department in order to investigate a leak of classified information. Rosen came to the attention of the DOJ after writing an article about CIA analysis of how North Korea might respond to sanctions. The DOJ traced the leak back to State Department worker Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, who now faces charges for leaking intel. Unlike the AP investigation, however, the reporter may also face charges as a "co-conspirator." Read it at The Washington Post TORNADOES 5. Twisters Sweep Through the Plains A 79-year-old Oklahoma man was killed Sunday night when a tornado touched down on his mobile home in Shawnee, Okla.—one of a series of twisters to sweep through the Plains states as part of a severe weather system that stretched from Texas all the way north to Minnesota. At least 20 more were injured in Oklahoma alone. "It looks like there's heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour," said Oklahoma's Pottawatomie County sheriff, Mike Booth. "It's pretty bad. It's pretty much wiped out." A tornado touched down in Golden City, Mo., early Monday, but the extent of the damage—as well as the number of injuries—was not immediately clear. Another tornado touched down about 30 miles west of Des Moines, Iowa—the first to hit the state in nearly a year. Read it at USA Today Slumburbia More Poor People Now Live in Suburbs Social services struggle to adjust. Money Talks Public TV Tries to Placate Koch After critical documentary. Media Moves NBC Names Woman to Head News Division Briton Deborah Turness comes from ITV. NOT A JEDI MIND TRICK 'Star Wars' Gets Animated Series Premiering on Disney Channel in fall 2014. THANKS BUT NO THANKS MacFarlane Not Hosting Oscars Again Announces news in series of lighthearted tweets. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Stage Dive Gone Wrong The Billboard Music Awards took a painful turn Sunday night, when R&B divo Miguel ditched the crooning in favor of attempted acrobatics and accidentally dropkicked a female fan in the head. More Videos An Old Person's Guide to Tumblr by Winston Ross Scandals Can't Stop Immigration Reform by Patricia Murphy Nicaragua's President Accused of Sex Abuse by Mac Margolis

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