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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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
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Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
The Real I.R.S. Scandal
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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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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 …
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Associated Press:
Dems vow: ‘Hell to pay’ if IRS allegations ring true — By: — Outraged Bay State Democrats are blasting President Obama for exhibiting a Nixonian abuse of power after the stunning news that the Department of Justice secretly obtained Associated Press phone records and the IRS targeted conservative groups …
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Politico:
Scandal politics sweep Capitol Hill
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP
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New York Times:
Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.
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John Cassidy / News Desk:
A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother
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TIME:
The New GOP Case Against Obama: He's Cheney!
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest? — TPM Reader SS thinks there's …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
White House stuck on IRS scandal response
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rep. Issa: ‘How dare’ Obama say he can fairly investigate IRS scandal
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
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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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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.
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.
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
RNC Director Of Hispanic Outreach Quits Party And Registers As A Democrat — Former RNC Florida Hispanic Outreach Director Pablo Pantoja. Credit: Tampa Bay Times — When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee …
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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