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1:10 PM ET, May 30, 2013

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Carol Cratty / CNN:
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks  —  Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Eric Holder's plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.
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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 …
Discussion: Guardian
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obama to Pick Former Bush Official to Lead F.B.I.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Attorney General Holder on the ropes
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Eric Holder To Meet With Washington Bureau Chiefs Amid Leak Investigation Criticism (UPDATE)
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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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.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Poll: President Obama job approval rating down  —  President Barack Obama's approval rating took a hit amid three controversies surrounding his administration, including an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeting conservative groups seeking nonprofit status, a new poll Thursday showed.
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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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Washington ‘Spends’ More on Tax Breaks Than on Medicare, Defense, or Social Security
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Tax breaks benefit rich households the most, report says
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.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee switches affiliation to Democrat  —  Obama has returned the favor: he declined to endorse a Democrat for governor in 2010, when Chafee was running as an independent in a three-way race.  And when Chafee ran TV ads featuring archival footage of the president praising him, Obama and his aides did not object.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Jim O'Sullivan / Boston Globe:
Chafee's party switch reflects broader regional trends
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Mounting legal woes spurred Democratic leader's resignation
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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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Assad Says Syria Has Received Advanced Missiles From Russia  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-30 air defense missiles to his country, weapons that Israel has said present a threat …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
McCain Wasn't Posing With Rebel Kidnapper, Spokesman Says  —  “Regrettable” if true, McCain spokesman says.  —  Via: Handout/Reuter / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's office is pushing back against reports that while visiting Syria this week he posed in a photo with rebels who kidnapped 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims.
New York Times:
Salvadoran Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman  —  MEXICO CITY — El Salvador's highest court on Wednesday denied an appeal from a woman with a high-risk pregnancy to be allowed to undergo an abortion, upholding the country's strict law banning abortion under any circumstances.
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Katie McDonough / Salon:
El Salvador Supreme Court denies critically ill woman lifesaving abortion
Discussion: Jezebel, Hullabaloo and susiemadrak.com
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 …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Icon Calls GOP's Need To Court Hispanics A ‘Great Myth’  —  Phyllis Schlafly of the pro-family group Eagle Forum called the GOP's need to reach out to Hispanic voters a “great myth” during a conservative radio program Wednesday.  —  “The Hispanics who have come …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Right Wing Watch
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Partying Strip Club Mogul: The IRS Targeted Me, Too  —  Meet Selim “Sam” Zherka.  New York City strip club proprietor.  Westchester county newspaper owner.  And the self-described “loudest voice” for the Tea Party in New York state.  —  In the weeks since the revelation …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jason Lange / Reuters:
First quarter GDP revised slightly lower; austerity bites  —  (Reuters) - A drop in government spending dragged more on the U.S. economy than initially thought in the first three months of the year, a sign of increasing pain from Washington's austerity drive.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
 
 
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Why Dems might reject Hillary Clinton in 2016
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With campaign in rearview, Ann Romney says there were mistakes
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
IRS Crosses Green Line
John Flesher / Associated Press:
Jeb Bush laughs off mom's ‘enough Bushes’ remark
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The new Anthony Weiner, same as the old
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Mike Spector / Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Reboots With Private-Equity Giant
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz opens up on immigration
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Alex Wagner Debuts In Racially Charged ‘Lean Forward’ Ad Mocking Border Security Proponents
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: MSNBC Falls Below HLN in May, Rachel Maddow Hits Lows
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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