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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bob Woodward criticizes IRS ‘fiction’ — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward says the Obama administration has explaining to do on the IRS scandal and needs to answer questions about who knew what, when. — “This fiction that somehow [The IRS is] totally an independent agency is absurd,” …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Accuse first and ask questions later — A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.
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msnbc.com, Right Wing News and Taegan Goddard's …
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
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Politico and The Political Carnival
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sen. Cruz accuses DOJ of targeting reporters critical of the White House
Sen. Cruz accuses DOJ of targeting reporters critical of the White House
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Politico, CNN and Wake up America
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Scalia Gets It Right — The collection of DNA evidence is a powerful crime-control tool, but it also has the potential to lead to greater invasions of privacy. Today, a bare majority of the Supreme Court held in Maryland v. King that the former considerations should outweigh the latter.
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Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Hinterland Gazette
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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Court's DNA Ruling Brings U.S. a Step Closer to ‘Gattaca’
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term
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Althouse, U.S. News, msnbc.com, Law Blog and JustOneMinute
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Maryland law, says police may take DNA samples from arrestees
Supreme Court upholds Maryland law, says police may take DNA samples from arrestees
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The Week, SCOTUSblog, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Reuters
Mark Memmott / NPR:
Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Collection Of DNA
Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Collection Of DNA
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The Week, ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Six conservative groups to appear before Ways and Means on Tuesday — Six groups have been scheduled to give first-person accounts of the IRS's targeting of conservative organizations on Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Committee announced Monday. — The Ways and Means hearing on Tuesday …
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americanthinker.com and Towleroad News #gay
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Associated Press:
IRS victims testify as new agency scandal emerges
IRS victims testify as new agency scandal emerges
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Wake up America and The Gateway Pundit
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury IG official compares IRS scandal to Nixon
Treasury IG official compares IRS scandal to Nixon
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Jammie Wearing Fools and Weasel Zippers
The Atlantic Wire:
The Latest Navy SEAL Book Could Impact the Military's Transgender Rules — In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately. Retired SEAL Kristin Beck's new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though. In it, Beck describes how …
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AMERICAblog, Towleroad News #gay, Outside the Beltway and Hullabaloo
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
SEAL Team 6 Vet Comes Out As Transgender In New Memoir — Retired Navy SEAL Kristin Beck published a memoir titled Warrior Princess on Tuesday describing her 20-year military career and and her experience coming out as transgender. — Beck was a member of SEAL Team 6 …
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ABCNEWS and The Raw Story
Brandon Webb / SOFREP:
Breaking: Meet The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristin Beck
Breaking: Meet The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristin Beck
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Business Insider and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Christie Can Maximize the G.O.P.'s Chances in New Jersey — The death of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, creates a confusing electoral situation in the state. There are conflicting interpretations of exactly what New Jersey's law requires — whether a special election …
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The Daily Beast, Real Clear Politics, New Republic, ACS Blog and The PJ Tatler
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Politico:
Chris Christie has broad sway over Frank Lautenberg succession
Chris Christie has broad sway over Frank Lautenberg succession
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The Atlantic Wire, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Phantom Public, The Hill, The Reaction and Booman Tribune
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Lautenberg's Death Adds to Democrats' Legislative Difficulties
Lautenberg's Death Adds to Democrats' Legislative Difficulties
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Salon, The Plum Line, CNN, American Power, Wonkblog and Associated Press
David Frum / david-frum:
All Good Things... So it's been a rough month for my family and me. It's been a rough month for the blog too. I'm well aware that people come here to read about public affairs, not personal losses. — Unfortunately, family and personal matters must claim my attention for some time to come.
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The Plum Line, PoliticusUSA, The Reality-Based Community and FishbowlDC
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Frum's Conservative Reform Checklist — As you may have heard, the conservative commentator David Frum (one of the “remormish conservative” writers profiled by Ryan Cooper in the May/June issue of the Washington Monthly) is shutting down his Daily Beast-hosted blog for a variety of family reasons.
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The Moderate Voice and PostPartisan
Dr. Keith Ablow / Fox News:
Is Obama waging psychological warfare on Americans? — I believe that the Obama administration is conducting psychological warfare on conservative Americans. Not only that but it is also waging this war on all Americans who previously viewed themselves, their country …
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Outside the Beltway
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Woman embroiled in Petraeus scandal sues gov't agencies — (CNN) - Jill Kelley, the woman described as a “Tampa socialite” who became enmeshed in last year's scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging employees of government agencies violated her privacy.
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Politico, Yahoo! News and Business Insider
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery — WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes …
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Power Line, Jammie Wearing Fools, americanthinker.com, The Jawa Report, White House Dossier and National Review
Justin Sink / The Hill:
McCarthy diagnosed with lung cancer — “There will be some tough days ahead and I will have to miss activities in Washington during my treatment in New York, but I will continue to be a strong advocate for the 4th Congressional District — and I remain committed to improving Long Island's schools …
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Politico
Sheera Frenkel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret — TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests. — The Obama administration …
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Israel Matzav
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Democrats' 2014 strategy: Own Obamacare — Scarred by years of Republican attacks over Obamacare, with more in store next year, Democrats have settled on an unlikely strategy for the 2014 midterms: Bring it on. — Party strategists believe that embracing the polarizing law …
Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
Anatomy of a Bogus Obamacare Argument — If you want to know why we can't have an honest debate about Obamacare, all you have to do is pay attention to some recent news from California—and the way a highly distorted version of it, by one irresponsible writer, has rippled through the conservative press.
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Business Insider, The Week, Liberal Values, Forbes, PERRspectives, msnbc.com, Wonkblog, Conservatives4Palin, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Angry Bear
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Flashback: Obama Promised Lower Health Care Insurance Premiums For Everyone
Flashback: Obama Promised Lower Health Care Insurance Premiums For Everyone
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Business Insider, Weasel Zippers and Conservatives4Palin
Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:
Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers — The last time the housing market was this hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the buyers pushing up prices were mostly small time. Nowadays, they are big time — Wall Street big. — Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars …
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Calculated Risk