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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks — CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that apparently differs …
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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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CNN:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks — CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya. The actual email differs …
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Steven T. Miller / USA Today:
IRS: ‘We should have done a better job’
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
White House stuck on IRS scandal response
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Politico:
Scandal politics sweep Capitol Hill
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me — Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama — a fact that he dismissed as coincidence until …
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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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Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
The Real I.R.S. Scandal
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
NAACP Chair Emeritus: ‘Legitimate’ For IRS To Target ‘Admittedly Racist’ Tea Party: ‘Taliban Wing’ Of Politics
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Eric Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation — Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation. He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records
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Mark Landler / Associated Press:
Facing Controversies, White House Dodges Queries
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carl Bernstein: AP phone subpoena ‘outrageous, totally inexcusable’
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Fox News:
Holder says AP probe handled by deputy after he recused himself
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest? — TPM Reader SS thinks there's …
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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.
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel — House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. — A growing number of members …
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Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
Obama's New Political Reality Is Bad News for Dems in 2014
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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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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 …
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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 C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Fed up, RNC's Fla Hispanic outreach director becomes Democrat
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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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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. -
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’ — Former Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on Benghazi last night, saying the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was “one of the worst incidences” he could recall.
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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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