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12:10 PM ET, May 15, 2013

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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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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 …
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.
Mark Memmott / NPR:
Holder Isn't Sure How Often Reporters' Records Are Seized … As his Justice Department faces bipartisan outrage for searching phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says he is not sure how many times such information has been seized by government investigators …
New York Times:
Spying on The Associated Press
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rangel: Obama hasn't fully explained DOJ phone records seizure
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
David Yonkman / Associated Press:
Carl Bernstein: AP Phone Scandal a ‘Nuclear Event’
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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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.
James Bovard / Wall Street Journal:
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting  —  One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress.  —  Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Axelrod: ‘Impossible’ for Obama to have known about IRS targeting  —  Former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Wednesday defended the president, saying it was “impossible” he could have known about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups because the government is too big.
Bloomberg:
IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row
Politico:
D.C. turns on Obama
Discussion: The Dish
Politico:
5 takeaways from IRS report
Discussion: NPR, Yourish.com, Reuters and CNN
Byron Tau / Politico:
Lerner's name on IRS letter to conservative group
Discussion: CNN
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution
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: Politico
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Chaffetz: Obama impeachment ‘possible’ over Benghazi attack
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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.
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Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Anthony Weiner hires campaign manager
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Politicker
NY Daily News:   Anthony Weiner may enter mayoral race as soon as next week
Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State  —  BELCHERTOWN (CBS) - Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.  —  State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore …
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Armed Forces Sexual Assault Crisis Reaches New Heights  —  Ahead of possible major actions from the Pentagon and Congress on sexual assault in the military, the U.S. Army is forced to confront yet another instance of a member of the armed forces involved in a shocking sexual assault scandal.
Discussion: defense.gov and The Week
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Goldberg and O'Reilly agree: Obama could cure cancer and Republicans would still hate him  —  Appearing on Tuesday night's episode of “The O'Reilly Factor,” author and sports journalist Bernie Goldberg agreed with host Bill O'Reilly on a critique of some Republican opinion-makers in the media …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Apparently Erroneous Reporting About Allegedly Erroneous Reporting
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
House to Vote Yet Again on Health Care Repeal  —  WASHINGTON — The 37th time won't be the charm.  But House Republicans are charging forward anyway this week on a vote to repeal President Obama's signature health care overhaul, which will put the number of times they have tried to eliminate …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Krauthammer To GOP: Stop Calling Everything A Watergate, “Be Quiet And Present The Facts”  —  CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: There are three theres and they are extremely important issues and the administration is hugely on the defensive and hasn't really answered and it's the same three we've always had.
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
CLAIM: OBAMA CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR ATTACKED ROMNEY WITH LEAKED IRS DOCS  —  One of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign co-chairmen used a leaked document from the IRS to attack GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election, according to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
 
 
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Daily Mail:
Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
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