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9:15 AM ET, May 15, 2013

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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo  —  WASHINGTON — In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.  —  That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
U.S. Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Failures in Management  —  WASHINGTON — An inspector general's report on the investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's effort to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny blamed ineffective management at the agency for failing to rein …
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
IRS gave liberals a pass; Tea Party groups put on hold  —  WASHINGTON — In the 27 months that the Internal Revenue Service put a hold on all Tea Party applications for non-profit status, it approved applications from similar liberal groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal  —  We're just at the front end of investigating the IRS scandal.  And all the standard blah blah blah about how we don't know just what we'll find.  But I think we do know pretty much exactly what the political implications will be.  And they're significant.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Impolitic and The Week
Fox News:
Lawmakers say IRS targeted dozens more conservative groups than initially believed
Byron Tau / Politico:   Lerner's name on IRS letter to conservative group
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution
CNN:
Report finds IRS targeted conservative groups, delayed applications
Discussion: Reuters, Politico and The Strike Zone
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid urges Congress to crack down on ‘masquerading’ political groups
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Politico:
D.C. turns on Obama  —  The town is turning on President Obama - and this is very bad news for this White House.  —  Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama - and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now.
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Politico:
Obama's dangerous new narrative  —  No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama.  He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative - invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama, the uninterested president  —  President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.  —  Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone …
Justin Sink / The Hill:   Controversies threaten President Obama's second-term agenda
David Yonkman / Associated Press:
Carl Bernstein: AP Phone Scandal a ‘Nuclear Event’
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney: Obama believes the press ‘needs to be unfettered’
Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
Obama's New Political Reality Is Bad News for Dems in 2014
Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks  —  This story has been updated from its original version.  —  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 …
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Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Chaffetz: Obama impeachment ‘possible’ over Benghazi attack  —  • Rep. Jason Chaffetz says President Barack Obama's handling of the government's response to the Benghazi terrorist attack could be an impeachable offense and vows to continue digging at the “lies of highest magnitude” from the White House.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Who doctored a White House email?
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Apparently Erroneous Reporting About Allegedly Erroneous Reporting
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Did Someone Leak Doctored Benghazi Email?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
David Seifman / New York Post:
Weiner to seek erection, will announce bid for mayor  —  Anthony Weiner's bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources.  —  “He's definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post.
Discussion: The Hill and Outside the Beltway
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Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Anthony Weiner hires campaign manager  —  Anthony Weiner's new campaign manager for his nascent mayoral bid is a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee adviser who spent four months working on a failed Staten Island congressional race last year, two sources familiar with the hire told POLITICO.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
New allegations against another sex assault prevention officer  —  The Army is investigating allegations of “abusive sexual contact” against a sergeant in charge of sexual assault prevention at Fort Hood.  —  The incident comes a week after the Air Force's officer in charge of sexual assault prevention …
Discussion: CNN, Taylor Marsh and Politico
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Fort Hood assault prevention chief under investigation
Discussion: The Week, New York Times and Gawker
CBO's Publications:
Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023  —  If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008.  Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:   The CBO's Projected Budget Deficits Just Shrank by Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Race And IQ.  Again.  —  I should know better than to bring this up again.  But the effective firing of a researcher, Heritage's Jason Richwine, because of his Harvard dissertation should immediately send up red flags about intellectual freedom.  I am not defending the Heritage report …
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ambassador Stevens twice said no to military offers of more security, U.S. officials say  —  CAIRO — In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance …
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’
RT:
US Navy launched its first drone from aircraft carrier
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BBC:
US shale oil supply shock shifts global power balance
Discussion: Riehl World News
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Obama struggles with rocky start to second term
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