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CNN:
Source: Two ‘rogue’ workers principally behind IRS targeting of conservatives — Washington (CNN) - The Internal Revenue Service has identified two “rogue” employees in the agency's Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for “overly aggressive” handling of requests by conservative groups …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Acting Chief of I.R.S. Forced Out Over Tea Party Targeting — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Wednesday night that the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service had been ousted after disclosures that the agency gave special scrutiny to conservative groups.
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CNN:
‘Angry’ Obama announces IRS leader's ouster after conservatives targeted — Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to hold accountable those at the Internal Revenue Service involved in the targeting of conservative groups applying for federal tax-exempt status …
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Talking Points Memo:
Obama Administration Sacks IRS Chief After Targeting Scandal — President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requested and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, following the agency's admission …
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Jacob Lew / Daily Mail:
Obama fires acting IRS commissioner as pressure grows surrounding political targeting of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status — Steven Miller is ousted but writes face-saving email announcing departure when his ‘assignment ends in early June.’
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Thomas More Society:
Broadening IRS Victims Include Pro-Life Advocates, As Congress Investigates — Thomas More Society Cases Demonstrate Conservative Bias Only “Tip of Iceberg” — Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net — The Thomas More Society is speaking out about blatant bias by the supposedly apolitical tax-collection agency.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Acting IRS chief Steven Miller resigns — President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had requested and accepted the resignation of Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. — Miller's resignation is the administration's …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama, the uninterested president
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Reports: IRS Spared Liberal Groups as Tea Party Languished, More Conservative Orgs Targeted Than First Thought
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James Bovard / Wall Street Journal:
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting
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Talking Points Memo:
Holder To Issa: Your Conduct Is ‘Unacceptable’ And ‘Shameful’ (VIDEO) — At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) clashed as the Attorney General tore into the Republican oversight chairman's conduct as “unacceptable” and “shameful.”
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
White House Pushes for Media Shield Law — WASHINGTON — Under fire over the Justice Department's use of a broad subpoena to obtain calling records of Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak investigation, the Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Louie Gohmert Gets Heated With Eric Holder: “He Has Challenged My Character” — Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert got into a heated discussion with Eric Holder today over a bunch issues, most notably the FBI's interview with deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Republicans go on the offensive in seizure of journalists' records
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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
First on CNN: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails — This story has been updated. — By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent — WASHINGTON (CNN) - The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama …
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Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
W.H. Benghazi documents point to CIA
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Tries To Tamp Down Three Controversies At Once
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
4 way tie for Republicans, Clinton leads Dems — PPP's monthly look at the 2016 Republican field for President finds essentially a 4 way tie at the top- Marco Rubio has 16%, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie 15% each, and Rand Paul 14%. Paul Ryan at 9%, Ted Cruz at 7%, Rick Santorum at 5% …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Strategist: Hillary Clinton Will Lose A Democratic Primary
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Reid: No ‘Precipitous’ Nuclear Option, But Consumer Watchdog Will Get Vote Next Week — If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to change the Senate filibuster rules — either broadly, or more narrowly to fast track presidential nominees — he'll need a strong case.
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Media Matters Not Sure The DoJ Did Anything Wrong — By now, you've probably heard that the Department of Justice is taking all manner of slings and arrows ever since it came to light that the agency went out and secretly obtained reporter and editor phone records from journalists at the Associated Press.
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New York Times:
Spying on The Associated Press
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Yahoo! News:
Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’ — In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group.
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Lindsay A. Powers / Washington Post:
Takoma Park grants 16-year-olds right to vote — When Takoma Park's next Election Day arrives in November, the lines of voters ready to cast their ballots for the City Council will include a new set of voters making history. — During its Monday meeting, the Takoma Park City Council passed …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Chris Matthews sours on Obama — President Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” Chris Matthews said tonight. — Yes, you read that right: The MSNBC host who in 2008 felt a “thrill going up my leg” after hearing Obama speak has grown disenchanted.
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Tom Philpott / Mother Jones:
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms — When you hear about foam in the context of food, you might think of molecular gastronomy, the culinary innovations of the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, who's famous for dishes like apple caviar with banana foam.
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