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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 — The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources, and that would enable journalists to ask a federal judge …
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 …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Louie Gohmert Gets Heated With Eric Holder: “He Has Challenged My Character”
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Republicans go on the offensive in seizure of journalists' records
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CNN
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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CNN:
Obama: Acting IRS commissioner resigns, more changes coming — 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, beginning with the resignation of the agency's acting commissioner.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
I.R.S. Says Counsel Didn't Tell Treasury of Tea Party Scrutiny — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that its chief counsel did not tell Treasury superiors of I.R.S. efforts to target conservative groups for special scrutiny, nor did he participate in a 2011 meeting …
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Bloomberg:
IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row — The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure after admitting it targeted anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
IRS: Chief counsel didn't learn of Tea Party targeting until 2013
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Reuters
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Reports: IRS Spared Liberal Groups as Tea Party Languished, More Conservative Orgs Targeted Than First Thought
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner on IRS: 'Who's going to jail over this?'
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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
First on CNN: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails — The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama and his aides played politics with national security following the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Releases Benghazi Emails — WASHINGTON—The White House succumbed to mounting pressure Wednesday and decided to publicly release the chain of administration emails surrounding the controversial Benghazi talking points. — The move came a week after public interest …
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The PJ Tatler
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.
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James Bovard / Wall Street Journal:
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
CLAIM: OBAMA CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR ATTACKED ROMNEY WITH LEAKED IRS DOCS
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The ‘Independent’ Revenue Service
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Joe Solmonese / The Huffington Post:
Joe Solmonese — Joe Solmonese is a Managing Director …
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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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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The real IRS scandal — Allowing so many ‘social welfare’ groups to enjoy tax-exempt status while participating in politics must stop. The IRS is obligated to scrutinize applicants, ‘tea party’ or no. — C4s are allowed to engage in lobbying, but not ("primarily") in campaign activity.
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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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Weasel Zippers, Sister Toldjah and The Spectacle Blog
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Strategist: Hillary Clinton Will Lose A Democratic Primary — “If I was a Democratic hot-shot politician, I would primary her so fast,” says Stu Stevens. Hickenlooper 2016? — Via: AP — WASHINGTON — The top advisor to last year's Republican nominee predicted Wednesday …
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Shakesville
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
4 way tie for Republicans, Clinton leads Dems
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Washington Monthly, Politico, WMUR and The Hinterland Gazette
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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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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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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