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8:00 AM ET, May 14, 2013

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Mark Sherman / bigstory.ap.org:
GOVT OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE  —  You are here  —  Home » Government and politics » Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP  —  Journalists on Monday called the news the Justice Department seized records from phone lines assigned to Associated Press offices and its reporters over a two month period “chilling” and a “dragnet to intimidate the media.”
Discussion: Twitchy
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Panopticon President  —  A new critique emerges.  Fear of a narrow new government power at a scary moment.  —  Less than four months into President Barack Obama's second term, the hazy perception of a government reaching further and further into individuals' lives in an era of broad …
Justin SInk / The Hill:
White House: ‘No knowledge’ of AP phone record seizure  —  The White House on Monday distanced President Obama from the Department of Justice's seizure of Associated Press telephone records.  —  “Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Justice Dept. secretly seized AP reporters' phone records
Discussion: Politico and The Volokh Conspiracy
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
Discussion: Pundits Blog
CNN:
Justice subpoenaed AP phone records, news service says
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Israpundit
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest?  —  TPM Reader SS thinks there's …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups  —  Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond …
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ProPublica:
IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups  —  The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups  —  Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded …
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Rule of Law
Stephen Ohlemacher / bigstory.ap.org:
IRS: TOP OFFICIAL FIRST TOLD OF TARGETING IN 2012
Yahoo! News:
House panel to formally question IRS commissioner Friday
Discussion: Hot Air
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 Thrush / Politico:
Why Clinton didn't talk Benghazi on Sunday shows  —  So far, the only high-ranking member of Obama administration to suffer politically from Benghazi is Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration for Secretary of State late last year after blowback for reciting errant talking points on the Sunday shows after the attacks.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Benghazi Investigation Does Not Reignite Broad Public Interest
Discussion: Guardian and Post Politics
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Voters trust Clinton over GOP on Benghazi
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com:
Will the Benghazi and IRS Probes Do More Damage to Obama or the GOP?
Fox News:
Doctor Kermit Gosnell found guilty of murdering infants in late-term abortions  —  A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic, Fox News confirms.  He was acquitted in the fourth baby's death, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Issa: Obama Covered Up Benghazi Terrorism By Calling It An ‘Act Of Terror’  —  House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) responded to President Obama's forceful condemnation of the GOP's effort to portray his administration's response to the attacks on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi …
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Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Stands By Benghazi Response
Discussion: Washington Wire and Real Science
Bernie Woodall / Reuters:
Saudi man arrested in Detroit after statement on pressure cooker  —  (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian man was arrested in Detroit and charged with making a false statement about why he brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday.
Discussion: Riehl World News and Hullabaloo
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Detroit Free Press:
Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit Metro Airport
Discussion: The Raw Story
Jim Williams / Public Policy Polling:
Americans so over hipsters  —  Just 16% of Americans have a favorable opinion of hipsters, a new PPP poll on the much-discussed subculture shows.  42% have an unfavorable opinion of hipsters, and 43% aren't sure.  Democrats (18% favorable, 34% unfav) are twice as likely as Republicans (9% fav, 48% unfav) to have a favorable opinion.
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.
Michelle Cottle / The Daily Beast:
Squishes, Step Aside: Ted Cruz and Chris Christie's Old-School Manliness  —  As the GOP becomes increasingly a guy's party, the Texas senator and Jersey governor are bringing the unapologetic swagger, writes Michelle Cottle.  —  Two Republican heavy hitters are bringing manly back to their machismo-starved party.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House counsel told of IRS review in April  —  The White House counsel's office was informed in April of an inspector general's review of the Internal Revenue Service, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday.  —  Carney told reporters that the counsel's office was told of the examination …
FLNation / The Florida Nation:
RNC FL Hispanic Director is Now a Democrat  —  I've known Pablo Pantoja for years.  We were both in the same graduate program at Florida State University.  We bonded because we were both also state employees at the time.  However, Pantoja had another, another job.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
 
 
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Newseum reverses plan to honor accused terrorists
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