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10:15 AM ET, May 14, 2013

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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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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 …
ProPublica:
IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups  —  The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year.
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 …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Panopticon President  —  A new critique emerges.  Fear of a narrow new government power at a scary moment.  —  Less than four months into President Barack Obama's second term, the hazy perception of a government reaching further and further into individuals' lives in an era of broad …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP  —  Journalists on Monday called the news the Justice Department seized records from phone lines assigned to Associated Press offices and its reporters over a two month period “chilling” and a “dragnet to intimidate the media.”
John Cassidy / News Desk:
A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother  —  If the three-strikes rule were in effect, President Obama would be heading for the dugout, bat in hand.  First the alleged Benghazi cover-up, then the kerfuffle about the I.R.S. targeting conservative groups, and now the revelation that earlier …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest?  —  TPM Reader SS thinks there's some game-playing from the AP on this phone call record story ...  I think there's still a very live question of whether this was a prudent action on the part of the DOJ, as maximal restraint should always be used when subpoenaing journalistic records.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
New York Times:
The I.R.S. Audits Are Condemned  —  The Internal Revenue Service was absolutely correct to look into the abuse of the tax code by political organizations masquerading as “social welfare” groups over the last three years.  The agency's mistake — and it was a serious one — was focusing on groups with …
Fox News:
Lawmakers rip Justice Department over AP phone records grab
Politico:
Scandal politics sweep Capitol Hill
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
AP calls government's record seizure a ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’
New York Times:
Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.
Justin SInk / The Hill:
White House: ‘No knowledge’ of AP phone record seizure
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
AP blasts feds for phone records search
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Justice Dept. secretly seized AP reporters' phone records
Discussion: Politico and The Volokh Conspiracy
Stephen Ohlemacher / bigstory.ap.org:
IRS: TOP OFFICIAL FIRST TOLD OF TARGETING IN 2012
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.
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.
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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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The Huffington Post:   Nancy Pelosi: If John Boehner Were A Woman, People Would Call Him ‘The Weakest Speaker In History’
Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
You want a scandal?  Here's a scandal.  —  Want a real Washington scandal — one worse than the (phony) Benghazi scandal and the (apparently real, but apparently limited) IRS scandals combined?  Try the continuing, and possibly accelerating, obstruction of executive branch nominees by Senate Republicans.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table
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.
FLNation / The Florida Nation:
RNC FL Hispanic Director is Now a Democrat  —  I've known Pablo Pantoja for years.  We were both in the same graduate program at Florida State University.  We bonded because we were both also state employees at the time.  However, Pantoja had another, another job.
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.
Jessica Farris / TheDenverChannel.com:
Aurora PD: Student suffers ‘significant injury’ in accidental shooting at Rangeview High parking lot  —  Gun fired as man tried to put it in glove box  —  AURORA, Colo. - Aurora police are investigating an accidental shooting that happened in the parking lot of Rangeview High School and left one student injured Monday.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Fox News:
Doctor Kermit Gosnell found guilty of murdering infants in late-term abortions  —  A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic, Fox News confirms.  He was acquitted in the fourth baby's death, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter …
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Sarah Hoye / CNN:
Doctor found guilty of first-degree murder in Philadelphia abortion case
 
 
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