Secret Service looking into radio host’s comments about shooting Hillary Clinton.

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As far as I can tell, one of the biggest costs of not knowing history is that you’re doomed to repeat it. For example, “Watergate, Watergate, Watergate.” For another, “Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.”

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I read the FBI affidavit regarding the request for access to Rosen’s gmail account, and it does not match up closely with the current media backlash. Everyone seems up in arms about surveillance of Rosen’s phone calls and building entries. Do reporters actually think that phone calls they receive on State Department phones within the State Department building are private?

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In case you haven’t already seen we have horrific and surreal images emerging out of a big tornado strike outside of Oklahoma City. We have live video here.

Late Update: A lot of attention on this elementary school which appears to have taken a direct hit.

Later Update: Some good news amidst the devastation: all children accounted for from elementary school.

As of 9:30 p.m. ET, the death toll in the Moore, Okla. tornado is 51 and expected to go up, with grim reports from local TV station KFOR at the scene of one of two elementary schools hit by the storm. Photos of the devastation.

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says he’ll press for offsetting cuts to other spending to fund federal aid to his state.

Some amazingly good photos of people being extricated from the rubble in Moore, Okla., here, here and here.

For some straight talk on leaks, leak probes, and national security journalism, go read Walter Pincus.

I think it’s fair to say that Harry Reid isn’t by inclination or temperament a big fan of filibuster reform. That’s partly because it will upset whatever collegiality is left in the Senate and make it really hard for him to “run” the Senate. But he’s not above keeping it in play as a negotiating chip with Mitch McConnell over important White House nominations. That’s why Reid keeps raising the prospect of doing something on filibuster reform, after initially declaring the issue resolved with some minor rules changes in January. His threats make a lot more sense in that context, especially since it’s not clear he has 51 Democrats on board for a dramatic rule change. But McConnell probably knows that, too, so at some point this posturing will lose his effectiveness, if it hasn’t already.

The confirmed death toll in Oklahoma has been revised downward to 24.