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Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment — A sign for the Internal Revenue Service stands in front of it's headquarters in Washington. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / May 15, 2013) — WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment …
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Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas — Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.

Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid — In the wake of the devastating tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) rejected comparisons between federal aid for this disaster and the Hurricane Sandy relief package he voted against.
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Coburn Wants Tornado Disaster Aid to Be Offset — The tornado damage near Oklahoma City is still being assessed and the death toll is expected to rise, but already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.
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Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief — WASHINGTON — As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes …


Oklah. GOP Senator takes own constituents hostage, demands budget cuts or no tornado aid
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Dems urge quick disaster aid for Oklahoma, offsets or none
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Republicans' Hatred of Obama Blinds Them to Public Disinterest in Scandals — Republicans are so focused on their bitter battles against Obama, they can't see how little impact the “scandals” have had on public opinion. — Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce …
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Obama's rating steady in face of controversies, likely buoyed by rising economic hopes
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Partisan Interest, Reactions to IRS and AP Controversies
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Is the Economy Saving Obama's Approval Ratings?
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Sharyl Attkisson's computers compromised — Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. — “I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation …
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House — The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. — We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press.
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Carney: White House, Treasury strategized how to tell public
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White House, Treasury discussed how to present IRS story
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Someone Claiming To Be Jamie Dimon Arrested By Homeland Security — After being arrested by Federal Protective Service yesterday, they were asked for their names. Among the names that the arrested gave were Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Brian Moynihan of BOA, John Stumpf of Wells Fargo …
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Protesters arrested after attempt to storm Justice Department
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Stop the Leaks — WASHINGTON — FOLLOWING the disclosure …
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Justice Department's scrutiny of Fox News reporter James Rosen in leak case draws fire
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PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama — More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.
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Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton on lapses in consulate security
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The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food — Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor's company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation …
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NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza
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GOP Aides Mock House Republicans' ‘Crazy’ Benghazi Witch-Hunt — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is leading the GOP's Benghazi witch-hunt (Credit: Reuters) — GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans' partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration's handling of the attacks …
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House Defense Bill Aims to Implement Lessons From Benghazi Attack
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The Maddow Blog, New York Times and Daily Kos


Accused Fort Hood Shooter Paid $278,000 While Awaiting Trial — Injured soldier outraged suspected shooter receives salary while his family financially struggles in recovery — The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan …


Anyone regret slashing National Weather Service budget now? — With GOP-backed cuts to forecasting agency, experts warn future storms will go undetected and more lives lost — Was the severe weather system culminating in yesterday's Oklahoma City tornado intensified - or even created - by climate change?
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Why are tornadoes so hard to predict?
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Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming — While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail …

Mr. Smith Is Vaporized in the Fire of a Thousand Suns — It hasn't gotten too much attention given the other things that are going on, but there is a battle looming this summer over the filibuster, one that could be a significant milestone in the already poisonous relationship between the parties on Capitol Hill.
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Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars and PostPartisan

The White House claim of ‘doctored e-mails... to smear the president’ — (CHRIS USHER/AP) “That's a very serious offense that happened where Republicans on the Hill, we voluntarily provided these e-mails to, took one of them, doctored it and gave it to ABC News in an attempt to smear the president.”
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