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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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Associated Press:
IRS victims testify as new agency scandal emerges
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives
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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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Zack Colman / E2-Wire:
Report: Obama appointees using secret email accounts
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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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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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Brandon Webb / SOFREP:
Breaking: Meet The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristin Beck
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Business Insider and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Court's DNA Ruling Brings U.S. a Step Closer to ‘Gattaca’ — The day that DNA cheek swabs officially became the new fingerprints deserves to be marked and remembered — and not just because of the inevitable march of technology. — No, the Supreme Court's 5-4 holding today in Maryland v. King …
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term
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Nina Totenberg / Law:
Supreme Court Rules DNA Can Be Taken After Arrest
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Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Scalia Gets It Right
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Erick Erickson Shows Everything That's Wrong With The GOP — Conservative pundit Erick Erickson doesn't like me. This morning he wrote 900 words about why. — But the main thing his post reveals is what's wrong with Erickson - and with a Republican party that is built to appeal to people like Erickson.
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The Other McCain, The Daily Caller and Brad DeLong
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 …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Immigration bill lacks the 60 Senate votes needed to pass
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The Plum Line and ABCNEWS
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury IG official compares IRS scandal to Nixon — The Treasury Inspector General who uncovered the improper targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service said Monday he was stunned by what his investigation uncovered. — Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Six conservative groups to appear before Ways and Means on Tuesday
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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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Shakesville and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Military brass oppose removing sexual assault cases from chain of command — Military leaders on Tuesday expressed unified opposition to stripping commanders of the power to decide where sexual assault cases are prosecuted. — In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House Republicans broken into fighting factions — On New Year's Day, in a cramped room in the Capitol basement, House Republican leaders faced an angry caucus. Democrats had negotiated them into a corner — virtually every American would be hit with a massive tax increase unless …
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Taegan Goddard's …, PostPartisan, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos and msnbc.com
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Citing Stand Your Ground, Jury Acquits Man Who Killed Wife's Lover — As trial approaches for the man who generated national controversy over Stand Your Ground laws when he shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Florida street, a jury has acquitted another man under Florida's controversial law …
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The Huffington Post
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Picks 3 for Top Appeals Court, Setting Up Battle — WASHINGTON — President Obama set a confrontation with Senate Republicans in motion on Tuesday morning by naming a slate of judges to a top appeals court and daring his rivals to block their confirmations.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict — GENEVA — Reporting “new levels of brutality” in Syria's more than two-year-old conflict, United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they believed chemical weapons and thermobaric bombs were used in recent weeks …
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ThinkProgress, The Jawa Report and Gawker
Emma Roller / Slate:
Daily Caller: Anxiety and Depression Don't Count as Real Illnesses — President Barack Obama delivers opening remarks to the White House Mental Health Conference as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki look …
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Associated Press, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, The Maddow Blog, Reuters, Yahoo! News and Balloon Juice
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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