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7:10 PM ET, June 20, 2012

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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Nancy Pelosi Slams Contempt Vote: 'I Could Have Arrested Karl Rove ... But We Didn't' … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Darrell Issa, Eric Holder, Karl Rove, Nancy Pelosi, Elections 2012, Video, Darrell Issa Contempt, Eric Holder Contempt, Fast And Furious, Holder Fast And Furious, Issa Fast And Furious, Politics News
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Fox News:
Obama grants Holder request on ‘Furious’ documents as contempt vote looms  —  DEVELOPING ...  President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off …
Washington Post:
Fast and Furious scandal: Obama invokes executive privilege; House panel moves forward with Holder contempt vote  —  President Obama asserted executive privilege over documents related to the “Fast and Furious” operation Wednesday as a House panel moved to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr …
Mark Levin / Facebook:
Executive Privilege and how the House should move forward legally  —  As the Supreme Court recognized in US v. Nixon, the Executive Branch has a legitimate interest in confidentiality of communications among high officials so that the President can have the benefit of candid advice.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
House panel votes to place Holder in contempt of Congress  —  A House panel voted Wednesday to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena, defying an assertion of executive privilege from President Obama.
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Panel votes to cite Holder for contempt  —  Washington (CNN) — Voting on strictly partisan lines, a House committee recommended Wednesday that Attorney General Eric Holder be cited for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents relating to the botched Fast and Furious weapons sting operation.
John Gramlich / CQ.com:
Contempt Citation Would Carry Limited Legal Consequences  —  House Republicans have been threatening Eric H. Holder Jr. with a contempt citation for weeks.  But even if he does not turn over information about a controversial gun-tracking operation, the attorney general is unlikely to be sent to jail or suffer serious penalties.
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Byron Tau / Politico:
Boehner: Privilege claim implies White House cover-up
Byron Tau / Politico:
Holder: Issa wanted to ‘provoke’ conflict
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
USA Today:
House panel votes to cite Holder for contempt of Congress
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CANNONFIRE
Des Moines Register:
Iowa's Grassley responds to Obama's executive privilege move on ‘Fast and Furious’
Donovan Slack / Politico:
White House: No cover-up, GOP playing politics with Fast & Furious
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Fox News:
House panel approves Holder contempt resolution
BuzzFeed:   Romney Campaign Says Obama Fast And Furious Decision “Another Broken Promise”
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews Slimes GOP as Racist for Going After Holder: An ‘Ethnic’ ‘Stop-and-Frisk’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Obama invokes executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents
New York Post:
Is this the end of Eric Holder's games?
Discussion: RedState and National Review
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Obama Leads In Poll As Voters View Romney As Out Of Touch  —  Barack Obama has opened a significant lead over Mitt Romney in a Bloomberg National Poll that reflects the presumed Republican nominee's weaknesses more than the president's strengths.  —  Obama leads Romney 53 percent …
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CNN:
New poll: Obama has double digit advantage
Maggie Habermanand Alexander Burns / Politico:
The 2012 campaign is the smallest ever  —  For years, operatives, reporters and potential nominees envisioned the 2012 presidential campaign as a titanic clash of media-swarmed combatants with big ideas about the future.  In the Republican primaries, this was almost a mantra: this is the most important campaign in a generation.
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BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Is Terrible For Traffic  —  We admit it, and so do other bloggers and editors: Nobody seems to want to read stories about Mitt Romney.  For the candidate, a blessing or a curse?  —  In the war of partisan trash talk that frequently consumes online political media …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the economy has been expanding moderately this year.  However, growth in employment has slowed in recent months, and the unemployment rate remains elevated.  Business fixed investment has continued to advance.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:   Fed Takes Modest Action on Rates as Forecast Dims
Jordan Michael Smith / Salon:
New NSA docs contradict 9/11 claims  —  “I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released,” an expert tells Salon  —  Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the National Security Archive.
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
E-mails show U.Va. board wanted a big online push  —  By  —  E-mail messages were flying among leaders of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in the weeks leading up to the ouster of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the university.  The e-mail messages show …
Discussion: naked capitalism
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Prepares to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’  —  NBC executives are readying a plan to replace Ann Curry on the “Today” show, only a year after she became the co-host of the iconic franchise.  —  The planning — which is taking place in secret and has not been finalized …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Andrew Sarris, Influential Film Critic, Dies at 83  —  Andrew Sarris, one of the nation's most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, which holds that a director's voice is central to great filmmaking, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan.  He was 83.
 
 
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Reuters:
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand / The Huffington Post:
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Discussion: Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Public Workers Face Continued Layoffs, Hurting the Recovery
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney plans posh weekend donor retreat featuring Rove and V.P. hopefuls
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