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6:30 PM ET, May 14, 2013

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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks  —  This story has been updated from its original version.  —  CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi …
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CNN:
CNN exclusive: White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks  —  CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya.  The actual email differs …
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Did Someone Leak Doctored Benghazi Email?  —  In a bizarre twist in the non-scandal known as Benghazi, it appears that someone doctored an email from Ben Rhodes to make it appear that he was more interested in protecting the State Department than telling the truth of what happened during the Benghazi attacks.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Who doctored a White House email?
Discussion: Goppers, The Raw Story and The Week
Yahoo! News:
In scandal-plagued Washington, lawmaker struggles to keep track of issues
Discussion: The Week, The Daily Caller and ABCNEWS
Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into I.R.S. Audits  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to open an investigation into whether Internal Revenue Service officials broke any criminal laws by singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny.
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Washington Post:
IG report: ‘Inappropriate criteria’ stalled IRS approvals of conservative groups
Discussion: The Fix, Wonkblog and Crooks and Liars
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carl Bernstein: AP phone subpoena ‘outrageous, totally inexcusable’
Discussion: Politico, CNN, JustOneMinute and The Week
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney: Obama believes the press ‘needs to be unfettered’
Dylan Byers / Politico:
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me  —  Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama — a fact that he dismissed as coincidence until …
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CNN:
IRS report cites ‘inappropriate’ action
Discussion: Reuters
Facebook:
Larry Conners KMOV · 4,761 like this
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal  —  We're just at the front end of investigating the IRS scandal.  And all the standard blah blah blah about how we don't know just what we'll find.  But I think we do know pretty much exactly what the political implications will be.  And they're significant.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Week
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Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution  —  (Image Credit: Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images)  —  When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn't know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and The PJ Tatler
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid urges Congress to crack down on ‘masquerading’ political groups
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
NAACP Chair Emeritus: ‘Legitimate’ For IRS To Target ‘Admittedly Racist’ Tea Party: ‘Taliban Wing’ Of Politics
Angelina Jolie / New York Times:
My Medical Choice  —  MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56.  She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms.  But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’  —  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.”  —  Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words.  We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order.
M.L. Johnson / greenbaypressgazette.com:
7-year-old boy gets handwritten letter from Biden  —  MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin boy wrote Vice President Joe Biden with an unusual suggestion for making the nation safer: Create guns that shoot chocolate bullets.  —  On Monday, he got an unusual response: A handwritten note from Biden on vice presidential stationery.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Reid on Gosnell: We Need ‘Clean and Sterile’ Late-Term Abortion Clinics  —  At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Senate majority leader Harry Reid blamed laws restricting abortion and pro-lifers who picket abortion clinics for pushing women to the clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted Monday for murdering three infants.
Discussion: LifeNews.com
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Associated Press:
Convicted Pa. abortion doctor gets life in prison
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World  —  They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.  —  Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members …
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel  —  House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.  —  A growing number of members …
CBO's Publications:
Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023  —  If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008.  Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year …
Janine Stanwood / WPLG-TV:
North Miami mayoral candidate touts endorsement from Jesus Christ  —  Anna L. Pierre is one of seven candidates vying to replace Andre Pierre  —  Author: Steve Owen, Assistant News Director, sowen@local10.com  —  Benjamin Candea, Senior Web Producer, bcandea@local10.com … NORTH MIAMI, Fla. -
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Hader to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live” is losing its excitable “Weekend Update” city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous, self-satisfied game-show hosts.
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on Benghazi last night, saying the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was “one of the worst incidences” he could recall.
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union  —  Overview  —  The European Union is the new sick man of Europe.  The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis.  The European project now stands in disrepute across much of Europe.
 
 
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Why Washington scandal-mania may save Medicare and Social Security
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress
Russell Berman / The Hill:
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