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Los Angeles Times:
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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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
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.
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Doug Ross, The Volokh Conspiracy and National Review
Politico:
White House reveals new IRS details — The White House's explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS's scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday.
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National Review and Yahoo! News
Politico:
IRS's Lois Lerner to take the Fifth
IRS's Lois Lerner to take the Fifth
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Real Clear Politics and Outside the Beltway
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The Justice Department and Fox News's Phone Records — The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim …
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DOJ seized phone records of numbers tied to Fox News lines, documents show — Newly uncovered court documents show the Justice Department seized phone records associated with several Fox News lines as part of a leak investigation — a revelation that comes as the White House Correspondents' Association spoke …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
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his vorpal sword, CNN and National Review
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox's Bret Baier Reveals That DOJ Also Seized Phone Records For James Rosen's Parents
Fox's Bret Baier Reveals That DOJ Also Seized Phone Records For James Rosen's Parents
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Twitchy, Michelle Malkin and The PJ Tatler
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fast and Furious/Benghazi investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy's …
Fast and Furious/Benghazi investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy's …
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CBS Philly and Patterico's Pontifications
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Patrick Leahy Withdraws Amendment To Include Gay Couples In Immigration Reform Bill — “I don't want to be the senator who asks Americans to choose between the love of their life and the love of their country,” Leahy says. Four Democrats on the committee said they would not support the amendment.
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Joe. My. God., Towleroad News #gay and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Kristol to Rubio: ‘Walk away’ — The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol has some advice for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on the Senate's immigration reform bill: Walk away. — “He should walk away from it,” Kristol said Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “He should say, I made a good faith effort …
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ABCNEWS, CNN, Booman Tribune and The Daily Caller
Tarini Parti / Politico:
Mitch McConnell won't block immigration bill
Mitch McConnell won't block immigration bill
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First Read, Yahoo! News, ThinkProgress, The Plum Line and CNN
Politico:
Immigration bill nears finish line
Immigration bill nears finish line
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Yahoo! News, msnbc.com, The Plum Line, Post Politics and Truthdig
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell won't block immigration bill from hitting Senate floor
McConnell won't block immigration bill from hitting Senate floor
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Ballot Box, Politico, The Fix and Booman Tribune
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
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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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Inhofe and Coburn: Red state hypocrites — Apparently, we have deserving and undeserving disasters, Oklahoma senators James Inhofe and Tom Coburn explain — Just a week ago, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe suggested that President Obama might be impeached over the Benghazi non-scandal.
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Hullabaloo, AMERICAblog and Post Politics
NY Daily News:
Oklahoma Senator who voted “no” on Sandy aid calls home-state tornado “totally different”
Oklahoma Senator who voted “no” on Sandy aid calls home-state tornado “totally different”
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AMERICAblog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden needles Obama on teleprompter — Vice President Joe Biden ribbed President Obama over his teleprompter use at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception in New York City on Tuesday. — Biden asked that the teleprompter in the room be taken down before his address, according to the pool report.
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Weasel Zippers and Politico
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’
Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’
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The Times of Israel and Weasel Zippers
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
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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Mother Jones, The Week, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, The Plum Line, Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune and First Read
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
‘Obama Scandals’ Could Actually Hurt Republicans
‘Obama Scandals’ Could Actually Hurt Republicans
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The Dish and First Read
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Fought Against Desegregation Efforts — E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, began his career as a minister and attorney in Boston. While there, he lent his support to a high-profile 1988 fight against a plan to desegregate public housing developments …
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Advocate and American Thinker
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Julie Pace / bigstory.ap.org:
AP SOURCES: OBAMA OK PUNTING GAY IMMIGRATION IDEA — You are here — Home » United States government » AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea — WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Liberal Pundits Gather in West Wing — National Public Radio reporter Ari Shapiro reports that liberal pundits were seen entering the West Wing: … The pundits include Jonathan Capehart, Josh Marshall, and Ezra Klein.
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Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Advisers Urged Obama Early On To Release Comprehensive Benghazi Timeline — How Obama got tripped up by his lawyers. — Via: Pool photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via Abaca Press/MCT — WASHINGTON — The White House Counsel's office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet …
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Main Justice, National Review and Post Politics
Amy O'Leary / NYT Bits:
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF — Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012 …
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Telegraph and Outside the Beltway