memeorandum: Fifa investigating Frances claims that a drone spied on training (Stuart James/Guardian)

5:35 PM ET, June 14, 2014

Top Items:

Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner's Emails? Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them — Obama needs to address this ‘phony scandal’ and the public trust with real transparency. — A sloppy mistake, the government calls it, but you couldn't blame a person for suspecting a cover-up …

Discussion: American Thinker and Althouse

CBS News:

IRS lost Lois Lerner's emails in tea party probe — Lois Lerner, former director of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division at the IRS, listens during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill March 5, 2014 in Washington, D.C. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Discussion: Power Line and Hullabaloo

waysandmeans.house.gov:
IRS Claims to Have Lost Over 2 Years of Lerner Emails

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Outside the Beltway, AMERICAN DIGEST, Ed Driscoll, Wall Street Journal, MichelleMalkin.com, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Power Line, Washington Free Beacon, NewsBusters and Patterico's Pontifications

Meg Wagner / NY Daily News:

‘Highly spiritual’ Oregon high school shooter Jared Padgett wrote plans to kill ‘sinners’ in diary: police — Police found the alleged shooter's diary in his family's Oregon home. The 15-year-old's detailed plans did not name specific people as targets, police said.

Discussion: his vorpal sword and The Raw Story

Kyle Iboshi / KGW-TV:

Reynolds HS suspect detailed plan to ‘kill sinners’ in journal — PORTLAND — The 15-year old gunman at Reynolds High School planned to kill classmates, who he called “sinners,” according to a journal police found in the suspect's home. — Police found the journal while searching Jared Padgett's father's home.

George F. Will / Washington Post:

George Will responds to senators on his sexual assault column — Editor's note: On Thursday, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) sent a letter to Post columnist George Will objecting to his column published online …

Discussion: Blogcritics, Vox Popoli and National Review

Ben Hartman / Jerusalem Post:

Netanyahu confirms: Teens kidnapped by terrorist organization — Netanyahu says kidnapping was true result of recent unity government that was forged between Fatah and Hamas; PM to convene cabinet Saturday evening following announcement. — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu confirmed …

Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit

David Atkins / Washington Monthly:

When even Lloyd Blankfein says you need to do something about income inequality.... When you list the names of wealthy allies in the cause of reducing income inequality, Warren Buffett and George Soros tend to come to mind. Not high on the list would be Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, ThinkProgress and Vox

Stuart James / Guardian:

Fifa investigating Frances claims that a drone spied on training — Didier Deschamps has expressed concerns that France's preparations for Sunday's opening game against Honduras have been compromised by a possible spying mission after a drone hovered over their training camp in Brazil.

Discussion: Mediaite and SBNation.com

Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:

Here's The Shocking Way Google Uses ‘Bigotry’ In A Sentence — Google has an odd way of looking at “bigotry.” — When you punch in the word “bigotry” into the Google search engine, here's what you'll find. — Interesting. Why is “right-wing” a correlation to bigotry?

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and Mediaite

Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:

Larry Pratt And Alex Jones Warn Obama Is Training Military To Turn On The Tea Party — Last week, after a couple motivated by far-right ideology killed three people in Las Vegas, we wrote about the Right's efforts in 2009 to quash a Department of Homeland Security report on violent right-wing extremism .

Discussion: The Raw Story

John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars: Alex Jones & Larry Pratt: Obama Training Military To Attack Tea Party

Abby Simons / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Supreme Court endorsee's pending DWI case surprises the GOP — Only a few knew about Supreme Court candidate Michelle MacDonald's arrest. — Attorney Michelle MacDonald, the GOP's endorsed candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story

Arizona Republic:

Horne threatens to sue feds over transporting migrants to Ariz. — Hundreds of migrant children are being housed in detention centers in southern Arizona that the Arizona Attorney General's Office will soon be inspecting. Unaccompanied children have been crossing the border illegally.

Discussion: Washington Post, BuzzFeed and ThinkProgress