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12:25 PM ET, May 14, 2013

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Washington Post:
IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups  —  Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Nobody's Laughing Now  —  How pervasive is the Obama IRS scandal?  —  David Plouffe had an intriguing comment yesterday on the scandal involving selective tax-law enforcement against Tea Party groups.  The manager of the 2008 Obama campaign who served as a top White House aide until this January …
Discussion: USA Today and Jammie Wearing Fools
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups  —  Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded …
Lauren French / Politico:
IRS head Steven Miller: ‘Mistakes were made’  —  Steven Miller is breaking his silence about the scandal that's engulfing the Internal Revenue Service.  —  Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, is quickly emerging as the focus of fury in Washington after an agency official acknowledged …
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Steven T. Miller / USA Today:
IRS: ‘We should have done a better job’  —  New procedures will ensure the mistakes won't be repeated.  —  The Internal Revenue Service recognizes that we should have done a better job of handling the influx of applications by advocacy organizations.  —  OUR VIEW: ‘Outrageous’ actions violate core principles
ProPublica:
IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups
Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
The Real I.R.S. Scandal
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
I.R.S. Targeting of Conservative Groups Could Resonate in 2014
Discussion: Wizbang, msnbc.com, Yahoo! News and Wonkblog
Mark Sherman / bigstory.ap.org:
GOVT OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE  —  You are here  —  Home » Government and politics » Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press …
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Associated Press:
Dems vow: ‘Hell to pay’ if IRS allegations ring true
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest?  —  TPM Reader SS thinks there's …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
John Cassidy / News Desk:
A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother
Angelina Jolie / New York Times:
My Medical Choice  —  MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56.  She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms.  But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
RNC Director Of Hispanic Outreach Quits Party And Registers As A Democrat
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Chris Gentilviso / The Huffington Post:
Pablo Pantoja Turns Democrat: RNC Florida Hispanic Director Cites GOP ‘Intolerance’ In Making Party Switch
Discussion: Rumproast and TheBlaze.com
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Fed up, RNC's Fla Hispanic outreach director becomes Democrat
Discussion: Politico
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’  —  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.”  —  Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words.  We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order.
M.L. Johnson / greenbaypressgazette.com:
7-year-old boy gets handwritten letter from Biden  —  MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin boy wrote Vice President Joe Biden with an unusual suggestion for making the nation safer: Create guns that shoot chocolate bullets.  —  On Monday, he got an unusual response: A handwritten note from Biden on vice presidential stationery.
RT:
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow - FSB  —  Russia's counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced.  The agent was operating under guise of career diplomat.
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CBS News:
Russia spy agency claims CIA agent arrested for trying to recruit Russian agent in Moscow
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi: If Boehner Were A Woman, They'd Call Him ‘Weakest Speaker In History’ (VIDEO)  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has drawn no shortage of critics - even within his own party — but his predecessor thinks he's getting off easy.  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
‘Weakest speaker in history’?
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World  —  They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.  —  Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members …
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union  —  Overview  —  The European Union is the new sick man of Europe.  The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis.  The European project now stands in disrepute across much of Europe.
hrw.org/rss/news:
Syria: Brigade Fighting in Homs Implicated in Atrocities  —  Video Appears to Show Commander Mutilating a Corpse  —  Human Rights Watch has reviewed graphic evidence that appears to show a commander of the Syrian opposition “Independent Omar al-Farouq” brigade mutilating the corpse of a pro-government fighter.
Discussion: TIME, Israel Matzav, normblog and Hullabaloo
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Hader to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live” is losing its excitable “Weekend Update” city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous, self-satisfied game-show hosts.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Janine Stanwood / WPLG-TV:
North Miami mayoral candidate touts endorsement from Jesus Christ  —  Anna L. Pierre is one of seven candidates vying to replace Andre Pierre  —  Author: Steve Owen, Assistant News Director, sowen@local10.com  —  Benjamin Candea, Senior Web Producer, bcandea@local10.com … NORTH MIAMI, Fla. -
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table  —  Senate Democrats frustrated with the GOP's blocking of a string of President Obama's nominees are seriously weighing a controversial tactic known as the “nuclear option.”  —  The option — which would involve Democrats …
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Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
You want a scandal? Here's a scandal.
Discussion: ACS Blog
 
 
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