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USA Today:
War on leaks threatens your right to know: Our view … Intimidation tactic serves to hide all manner of government secrets. — When President Obama talked about reporters and reporting last week, he struck a conciliatory chord. Obama said he was troubled “that leak investigations may chill …
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Guardian and PoliticusUSA
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama to Pick Former Bush Official to Lead F.B.I. — WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former hedge fund executive and a former senior Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as the director of the Federal Bureau …
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Attorney General Holder on the ropes — Attorney General Eric Holder is in the midst of perhaps the most serious challenge of his career over his department's investigation of government leaks to journalists. — The battle-scarred head of the Justice Department (DOJ) …
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americanthinker.com
New York Times:
Holder Faces New Round of Criticism After Leak Inquiries — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a lightning rod of Republican attacks during President Obama's first term, is now contending with a new round of criticism over the Justice Department's campaign against leaks to the news media.
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The Fix, Washington Post, National Review, The Huffington Post, Open Channel, Firedoglake and Taylor Marsh, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Eric Holder To Meet With Washington Bureau Chiefs Amid Leak Investigation Criticism (UPDATE) — NEW YORK — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to meet this week with the Washington bureau chiefs of several major media outlets to discuss the Justice Department's guidelines for dealing with journalists in leak investigations.
Carol Cratty / CNN:
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Hill
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
ACLU Defends News Organizations For Rejecting Off-The-Record Meeting With Attorney General
ACLU Defends News Organizations For Rejecting Off-The-Record Meeting With Attorney General
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Yahoo! News, Right Turn and Politico
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times will not attend DOJ session, citing opposition to off-the-record provision
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Too dumb to check: Holder's huddle with media on press freedoms will be ... off the record …
Too dumb to check: Holder's huddle with media on press freedoms will be ... off the record …
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americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler and Weekly Standard
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama to nominate Comey as next FBI director, sources say
Obama to nominate Comey as next FBI director, sources say
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Taylor Marsh
Washington Post:
Comey in line to become FBI director, officials say
Comey in line to become FBI director, officials say
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The Week, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
Carrie Johnson / Law:
Former Justice Official In Line To Be Named FBI Chief
Former Justice Official In Line To Be Named FBI Chief
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Yahoo! News, emptywheel, Truthdig and The Reaction
CBS News:
House Republicans express “great concern” about possible Holder perjury
House Republicans express “great concern” about possible Holder perjury
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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and Restoring Liberty
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Associated Press will not attend off-the-record DOJ session
Associated Press will not attend off-the-record DOJ session
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Restoring Liberty, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — May 30, 2013 - American Voters 4-1 Want Special Prosecutor For IRS, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Fixing Economy Is More Important, Voters Say 3-1 — American voters say 76 - 17 percent, including 63 - 30 percent among Democrats, that a special prosecutor …
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill, CNN, Politico, Right Turn and ABCNEWS
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama's poll numbers hold up despite the storm of scandal — Obama's 7 percentage-point positive margin in Gallup is better than where he stood before the IRS scandal broke. — President Obama's approval ratings have increased since a trio of controversies involving his administration began dominating the news cycle.
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Prairie Weather
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Conservative groups sue Holder, IRS over Tea Party targeting
Conservative groups sue Holder, IRS over Tea Party targeting
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Associated Press
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
IRS's Shulman had more public White House visits than any cabinet member — Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president's Cabinet.
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Power Line, Hot Air, Red Alert Politics, Restoring Liberty, americanthinker.com and Townhall.com
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Bobby Rush rips Mark Kirk's mass gang arrests proposal as ‘elitist white boy solution’ — Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) is highly critical of a proposal by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) for mass arrests of 18,000 Gangster Disciples, telling the Sun-Times on Wednesday that Kirk's approach is …
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Talking Points Memo, Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hinterland Gazette
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Lois Lerner state — It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over their fellow citizens and running free of serious oversight from elected officials.
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Pirate's Cove
Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Sequester not biting District yet — In the months since the automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester took effect, the Washington area has added 40,000 jobs. Income-tax receipts have surged in Virginia, beating expectations. Few government contractors have laid off workers.
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Weekly Standard and Wonkblog
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Annals of the Security State: ‘Is Puerto Rico in America?’ — Here are two more, from people willing to go on the record under their real names. Previous entries here, here, here. … Now, from David Rivera, who runs a small business in San Diego: … No more “analysis” at the moment.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: MSNBC Falls Below HLN in May, Rachel Maddow Hits Lows — Fox News Channel maintains a handsome lead in primetime and total day, while primetime runner-up CNN continues a healthy climb from the lows of 2012. — “The Rachel Maddow Show” — HLN's wall-to-wall coverage …
Washington Post:
Officials: Man who knew Boston bombing suspect was unarmed when shot — A Chechen man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent last week during an interview about one of the Boston bombing suspects was unarmed, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. — An air of mystery has surrounded …
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Sky Dancing, LewRockwell.com Blog and emptywheel
CNN:
Threatening letters to Bloomberg test positive for ricin — (CNN) — Preliminary tests indicate ricin was found in letters sent this past weekend to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York deputy police commissioner Paul Browne said Wednesday. — Browne said the letters to Bloomberg contained …
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The Hill, New York Times, Joe. My. God. and Mediaite
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Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
2 Letters Addressed To Mayor Bloomberg Found To Contain Ricin
2 Letters Addressed To Mayor Bloomberg Found To Contain Ricin
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Little Green Footballs, The Reaction and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Joe Muto / Salon:
I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O'Reilly to Roger Ailes, here's all the inside dope — Inside the beast: O'Reilly hates Hannity. Producers know what's acceptable. Everyone fears a call from Roger Ailes — Excerpted from “An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside …
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The Impolitic
CBO's Publications:
The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System — A number of exclusions, deductions, preferential rates, and credits in the federal tax system cause revenues to be much lower than they would be otherwise for any given structure of tax rates.
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Yahoo! News and Los Angeles Times
Rick Madonik / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford video scandal: Mayor Ford said he knew where video was, sources say — The mayor cited “our contacts” as the source of his information, according to insiders familiar with an unusual May 17 session in his office. … Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a press conference at City Hall …
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Gawker, Balloon Juice and Blazing Cat Fur
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz opens up on immigration … What, exactly, is Ted Cruz's position on comprehensive immigration reform? There's no doubt the outspoken and still very new Texas senator opposes the Gang of Eight proposal. From that, some Democrats and commentators on the left have concluded that Cruz …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The new Anthony Weiner, same as the old — In the week since he took the New York City mayoral race by storm, Anthony Weiner has delighted in the media circus he singlehandedly created. He has mixed it up with reporters and taunted longtime adversaries in the same manner that made him a liberal lightning rod in Congress.
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First Read, Politicker and BuzzFeed